The Communique Layout
Popularized by Rhonda Dort, who uses the layout in her classes, the Communique Quilt Layout works for both featuring large fabric and panel pieces, as well as a basis for multiple block designs.
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Welcome to Mouse in My Pocket! I'm Andrea, a web developer living in rural America with her husband and daughter. I'm excited to share my life with you as I explore some of the great things about living in the middle of nowhere. Be sure to check out the blog below to see a few of the things that are speaking to me right now.
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Happy Valentines Day
Happy Valentines Day for the happiest couple I could think of… oh… and Matt and me!
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Works in Progress
My weekly update on project progress. Finishes I finished my Romance themed (read Valentine’s Day) crazy quilt. I made a matching Valentine’s Day pillow cover. And I made up a pillow cover to match the His and Her’s Quilt. You’ll see a blog post about the pillow top next week. I also finished one more…
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Quilts Quilts Quilts
My husband recently brought to my attention that I may have a problem with quilts. They are everywhere in my living room. And I mean everywhere. The only thing I haven’t done is to lay one on the floor like a rug. My husband thinks I may have a problem. Any ideas on how to…
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Valentine Pillow Cover
I seem to be making a habit of making a pillow cover to match each of my most recent quilts. So, I now present you with a simple pillow cover that I made to go with my Valentine’s Day Quilt. For this particular pillow cover, I chose to use one of the sampler style motifs…
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A Tiny Addition (to my sewing machine collection)
I stopped by one of the local antique malls over the weekend, hoping to find some inexpensive, but classy jewelry to wear to my brother-in-law’s wedding. No luck on the jewelry, but when I stopped to look at a vintage camera (they’re beautiful, I always stop for them), I happened upon the most adorable sewing…
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Works In Progress
I’m trying to finish projects as I start them instead of having lots of projects going at the same time. Being focused on only one or two projects at a time has been really good for me. I feel like I’m accomplishing much more than I would otherwise. It’s so easy when I have multiple…
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#DayOfLight
Tomorrow is the #DayOfLight! But what is this day of light, you ask? I’m about to tell you. #DayOfLight is the brainchild of Brandi from Mama Knows It All. As part of the #DayOfLight, we, as bloggers, have been asked to share stories of how depression has affected our lives through blog posts and social…
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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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#thegreatfabricdestash
A couple weeks ago, someone on instagram got the brilliant idea to start a hashtag for a big fabric destashing project. I think it was @twomoreseconds, as she has a blog post about it. But, what started out as a small destash of fabrics exploded. Almost all of the crafty people I followed on instagram…
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Designing a Quilt
I picked up some amazing fabrics last weekend, knowing that I wanted to make a quilt with them, but having no idea what I wanted that quilt to look like. Why do I do this to myself? Because I had a gift card for the store and everything was 15% off, that’s why. The fabric…
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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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A Second Fanfare Quilt
As you know, I just made a quilt for my cousin Susan’s baby out of some lovely Fanfare flannels from Cloud 9. Because of the pieces required for the pattern, I needed to size up a lot of the yardage I bought. This gave me a fair amount of leftover flannel with no home. My…
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