Tag Archive | "design"

Bloggers Quilt Festival–My Favorite Quilt

Friday, April 17, 2009

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Bloggers Quilt Festival–My Favorite Quilt

2005 59″ x 59″ I’ve decided that Paisley Pavane is my favorite quilt, if I’m just thinking about the design. I made this quilt for the New Quilts from an Old Favorite contest a [...]

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A Needle Nest? Nook? Nanny?

Monday, March 16, 2009

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A Needle Nest? Nook? Nanny?

I was totally sidetracked over the weekend by this little project. I’ve been meaning to make something like this for a while, and finally just did it. If I have to [...]

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Irony

Monday, February 2, 2009

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Irony

I decided last weekend that I should put together a class on satin stitch fusible applique. I came up with this wonderfully lovely method some time back, which got slightly buried by developing material for The Book. I set out to create some sort of simple design that could work in a [...]

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HST’s & QST’s: It’s Not You, It’s the Math

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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Have you ever wondered why points are so difficult to match up when you’re making a block with half-square or quarter-square triangles? It’s not so bad if the entire block is HST’s or QST’s by themselves (except that the block will most likely not finish to exactly the expected size), but pair either one [...]

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A Cup of Gratitude to Go Along with Thankful

Saturday, November 29, 2008

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Irene has nominated me for the Kreativ Blogger Award! How lovely of you Irene, and thank you! The rules of the award are: 1. The winner may put the logo on her blog. 2. Put a link to the person you got the award from in your blog. 3. Nominate 3 blogs - it was originally [...]

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Moda Fabrics + Electric Quilt = Quilt Design Coolness

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

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I was shopping for charm packs today for a small quilt I’d like to make and since Moda markets all of these cool charm packs, jelly rolls, layer cakes and other whatnots, I took a trip to the Moda site to see what’s out there now, and what’s coming up. I discovered something totally [...]

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