Puff the Fabric Dragon Mini Quilt

Puff the fabric dragon lived by the seam And frolicked in the stash box in a land called quilting bee Little Template Paper loved that rascal Puff And brought him lace and tiny beads and other fancy stuff Now that I have destroyed a perfectly lovely children’s song for you, I’m happy to present to…

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Why I Love Marsala

Each year Pantone comes out with the Pantone Color of the Year, and each year we hear all about why people love or hate that color.  This year I’ve seen a surprising number of people in the blog-osphere who down right hate Marsala. I have to say that I just don’t get it. Marsala isn’t…

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So Much Sewing

In the last week, I feel like I’ve made quite a bit of progress on the quilt which was once the #dyosampler. I have 5 full sections complete, and the other 3 sections are partially complete. Overall, I’m pretty happy with my progress so far. What do you think?  

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Romance as a Quilt

Over the last couple weeks, I’ve been piecing yet another crazy quilt.  That in itself isn’t surprising.  What’s surprising is that it’s a Valentine’s Day quilt.  That means lots of pink.  Pink isn’t normally my color, but I ran across a great vintage-inspired Valentine’s Day print fabric at JoAnn’s, and when I did, I knew…

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His and Hers Quilt

I’ve had this idea for a while now about taking fabric from Amy Butler’s fabric lines and pairing it with fabric from Parson Gray’s lines.  Why?  Because they are married and I thought it would be interesting to see how this couple’s very different lines played together. I started with a trip to my local…

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Seeing Red

Today is the 3rd day of the July Photo-a-Day Challenge from The Idea Room.  I’m super happy that today’s challenge was something that I could easily do, even if it’s gloomy out, which of course it is.  Whoever planned all of this gloomy weather in the middle of my summer is seriously making me sad.…

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Shiny Chevron Top Finished!

I’m so excited!  I got all the shiny chevron quilt  top done!  And I love, love, love, love, love the way it looks! I started with the interior section (the actual chevrons). The finished size of this section is approximately 40×30 inches. For this project I used the 4 HST block tutorial, I showed you…

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Color Week: Red

I just got around to catching up on a few of my favorite blogs today.  One of those blogs is Pamplemousse! (it’s french for grapefruit if your interested).  She was the inspiration for my Fashion Friday posts  (there’s one this Friday).  And it looks like she’s inspiring me to participate in another little game.  This…

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