Wednesday
March 15th
2006
Here’s the view from my quilting chair:
I’ve just started down the long road to stipple the background of a king-size quilt. I’m hoping to get the stippling done in about 12 days and I’ll probably go through about 3,000 meters of thread. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tuesday
March 14th
2006
Quilting Makes the Quilt,
by Lee Cleland
Need help with quilting patterns? Get this book, now! In this amazing book, Lee Cleeland presents much food for thought with regard to how the quilting can affect the overall look of a quilt. She’s made a total of 12 quilts, 5 times each! In other words, for each quilt design, she’s made five duplicate quilts, and then quilted each one with different quilting designs. Wow! Read the rest of this entry »
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Monday
March 13th
2006
Where do great designs come from? Sometimes they come in dreams! Really, no kidding. I was working on my entry for the New Quilts from an Old Favorite contest last fall, and I woke up one morning after dreaming that I was working on a completely different quilt! You know how it is when you first wake up, everything’s kind of foggy, and I really thought I was actually in the middle of that quilt. It was a radial spiky design, Read the rest of this entry »
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