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DreamWeaver’s Quilts Online Store now Open

23. February 2006

Quilt Art Gifts@Dreamweaver’s Quilts is now open and ready for business. Shop the store for custom shirts, notecards, mugs, journals and more, all featuring your favorite DreamWeaver’s Quilts artwork by yours truly, Nadine Ruggles. Any of these items will make great gifts for that quilter in your life, or a special treat for [...]

Don’t be afraid of the blue washout marker!

20. February 2006

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Have you been told by your quilting friends never to use that blue washout marker? Or worse, tried it on your quilt, and then couldn’t get the marks out?? I was gulled into that trap by the bad publicity these markers were getting some years back, too. Now the blue marker is one [...]

Have you tried wool batting?

17. February 2006

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Students in my classes always ask what type of batting I use. I really love Hobbs Heirloom Wool batting. I used to be a Hobbs Polydown girl, because I like my quilts slightly puffy, and you can’t get that from cotton (unless you want to do trapunto, which is way too labor intensive [...]

Basting Spray?

14. February 2006

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I get questions about this stuff all the time. You know, I’ve been quilting long enough to have seen the beginning of the basting spray movement. I bought some, I tried it, and I don’t like it. I used basting spray on a small lap quilt project when it was first introduced. [...]

Quilting with Patches

11. February 2006

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No, we’re not using fabric, here. Patches is my cat, and he keeps me company while I quilt. Well, okay, provides distraction while I quilt, to be a little more accurate. He’s a sturdy mixed breed cat (read “overgrown mutt” weighing in now at about 17.5 pounds, down from a fat 19.5!) [...]

Warm Up for Machine Quilting

9. February 2006

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I’ve been doing a lot of work on my websites in the last couple of weeks (maybe you could tell!), which means I’ve been doing less quilting. Well, the website stuff is fun too, but… Anyway, the point is that since I’ve been doing less machine quilting, I find it’s even [...]