This stuff is truly ingenious! And I’m sure I’m really behind here, but my only excuse for not discovering Glue-Baste-It sooner is that I usually go to great lengths to avoid hand-appliqué, so it didn’t exactly pop out at me at the store. Now that I’m “in it” with a quilt that has to be [...]
Archive | July, 2006
Favorite Things: EQ Palettes of the Month
July 13, 2006
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Okay, maybe I need to get out more, but I just discovered this recently and had to share. Electric Quilt Software’s website has a new palette every month that you can download and use in your EQ program, for free! I love it! The folks at Electric Quilt make it very easy, with complete instructions [...]
It’s coming! The Machine Quilting Workshop on CD
July 12, 2006
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My Machine Quilting—Master the Basics class is quite popular, and I’ve often heard requests for a “take-it-home” version: a video, a book, or something of that nature. I’m pleased to announce the upcoming release of Machine Quilting—Master the Basics, a complete beginning machine quilting workshop on CD. Everything you need to know about learning to [...]
Creative procrastination pays off
July 8, 2006
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I’ve started designing a new quilt, and it’s entirely out of my “normal” range of styles. It’s really outside a number of my boxes, so it’s been kind of interesting figuring out how to do it. It’s appliqué, which I don’t do a lot of because it takes too long by hand (and my hands [...]
Just for Weblog friends! Early access to Episode 3 of Driven to Quilt!
July 7, 2006
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Episode 3 of the Driven to Quilt Podcast will be released officially on July 10, but friends of the Quilt Epiphany Weblog (that’s you!) can listen early, by visiting your special Episode 3 preview page at Driven to Quilt. Return here to leave a comment and let me know how you like it!
Postscript to yesterday’s cat events
July 6, 2006
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I receive the “Bad Cat” Page-a-Day calendar in my e-mail every day, and the page that showed up this morning was just so timely, I had to share it: I just had to laugh, thinking about yesterday’s events. And those cats even look like Shadow! Shadow could be the poster kitty for the “Bad Cat [...]
Things that keep me from quilting #3
July 5, 2006
Imagine this: Shadow playing with a CapriSun drink pack. Now imagine him trying to eat it, and poking holes in it with his teeth! Then imagine him thinking the juice was not so tasty when it began spewing out of the holes onto the floor, and moving on to the 32 oz. Tetra-pak container of [...]





July 15, 2006
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