Month:January 2017
Bow Ties Quilt
This one is another finish of a long arm practice quilt. I made this top a long time ago from leftover fabrics from a cute baby quilt I made for a friend. I thought this top was fine, but was really never motivated to finish it. I’m trying to practice a number of different things …
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The Mess of a Quilt
Have you ever made a quilt and thought, “Wow. That’s one ugly quilt.” ??? Obviously this is not the goal one sets out to achieve when one starts a quilt. However sometimes what things look like in reality is just not quite what you had envisioned in your head. This is one such quilt. I …
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Sunday Stash – January 22, 2017
This is my first Sunday Stash! One of my Christmas gifts was a subscription to a Fat Quarter Shop Monthly Club. I asked my husband for it, but when he went to the website there were so many clubs he wasn’t sure what to do. Rather than make a rash decision he gave me an “IOU” in …
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Bee Inspired Quilt Bee Group – January Block
I joined a Quilt Bee! I’m so excited. There was a group of us from the 2016 New Quilt Bloggers group who decided to get together and do a Bee. I’ve never done a Bee before, and I frankly wasn’t all that sure what I was signing up for! But the group was gentle on …
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Q1’17 FAL Goals
I currently have a lot of projects in progress and I’d like to focus on getting a bunch of these knocked out. Lots of good opportunities for practicing on the long arm! Bow-tie Quilt: this is a really old top I made forever ago that I pulled out to practice with on the long …
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Sugar Block Club 3.0 – Quilt Layout
I’ve written about this project before (here, here and here), but the short story is that my Modern Quilt Guild decided to do Amy Gibson’s (of Stitchery Dickory Dock) Sugar Block Club BOM this year. The club features clean designs and are a good opportunity to apply a modern take to traditional blocks. I did a good job of keeping …
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