The (Not Quite) Purdue Quilt

Ever since I told my youngest sister, Samantha, that I was making Kayla a quilt for her wedding, Samantha has wanted me to make her one.  And now that I’ve used up a good portion of my scrap fabric and smaller stash pieces with the crazy quilt, the baby quilt for Lukas, the School Days…

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My Top 3 Sites for Quilting Inspiration

As you may have noticed, I’ve done quite a bit of quilting recently… and by quilting, I mean piecing, because I’m not awesome enough to do my own quilting just yet.  But, I haven’t been coming up with all the ideas myself.  As a matter of fact, I spend a ton of time surfing the internet looking…

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Sassy Charm Quilt

As you know, I’ve got two different quilts ready to be quilted right now, but I’m just having way too much fun to stop.  I’ve already got my next quilt laid out.  It’s another quilt to help cut down on my fabric stash.  For this one, I’m using the Sassy charm pack by Sandy Gervais…

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Backing for School Days Quilt

I’m very excited that I found some backing fabric for my School Days HST Quilt.  I stopped by my local quilt shop in hopes of finding some of the Red Composition fabric from the school days line.  No luck with that, but Quilts N’ Bloom did have a bolt of the Dot to Dot fabric…

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School Days HST Quilt

I’ve been working on another small quilt recently, trying to use up some of my stash.   For this project I’m using the School Days Charm Pack by American Jane Patterns for Moda. I’m pairing the patterns with a dark blue floral I had purchased for some long forgotten project.  I actually think that the blue…

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Crazy Quilt Tutorial

If you’re like me, you keep the scraps from all of your finished projects, hoping that you will find a use for them later.  Actually — I take that back — if you’re like me, you’ll collect everyone’s scraps in hopes of using them later.  I have a lot of scraps at my house –…

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Lukas’s Quilt

You remember that quilt that I started at the beginning of the week?  I got it done!  I have decided that I absolutely love making small quilts.  Why?  Because they’re quick.  I love that I feel like I accomplished the same amount of work as a big quilt, even if it is smaller. The Road…

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More Quilting

I may have just finished a quilt top, but that doesn’t mean I’m planning on taking a break from my quilting.  I’ve already got another (allbeit much smaller) project in the works.  This one will actually be small enough that I’m hoping to attempt to machine quilt it myself, using my sewing machine.  This particular…

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Crazy About This Top

I’m crazy about this top, quilt top that is. I’ve got what I estimate to be between 60 and 70 hours and about $20 in this quilt top.  Since I used scraps for all the blocks, the only fabric I had to purchase was for the sashing. I’m trying to decide how to explain how…

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