Year: 2018
2019 Goal Setting – BrownPaws Quilting
2018 is nearly done so it’s a good time to look both back and look forward. Quilting JetGirl is hosting another yearly planning party, so I thought I’d take this opportunity between holidays to reflect. Looking Back – 2018 For 2018, my word of the year was Grow – as in build or develop. Apparently …
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Blueberry Orange Peel Quilt Finish
Today I’m happy to share my Blueberry Orange Peel Quilt Finish. I talked about the start of this quilt and the piecing here – I had fun experimenting with my Classic Curves ruler. I designed the quilt with a lot of negative space to enable quilty creativity, then promptly had a mental block on how …
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Angela Walters Swirl Challenge Finish
Perhaps you are aware that Angela Walters has been hosting Machine Quilting Along Challenges this year on YouTube. The first one ran early in the year and involved piecing a quilt top and then using it for lots of machine quilting practice. I completed that one and posted about it here. The second challenge ran …
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Quilt Retreats – Our Latest Retreat and Planning Tips
Earlier this year some friends invited me to join in on their quilt retreats. We all actually used to work at the same company but didn’t know each other as quilters while there…or started quilting after leaving that company and finding more time! The group did one retreat just over a year ago in Santa …
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Q4’18 FAL Goal Setting
I really can’t believe that it is already the last quarter of the year. It has kind of both been a really short and a really long year, so given that I still can’t believe we are in the last quarter. I’m going to try and wrap up this year with some good projects to …
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The Beginnings of an Orange Peel Quilt
I’m trying to do a better job of blogging more regularly. A big part of that is that I tend to wait for a quilt finish to write about it so my blog posts are limited by the rate of my finishes. That seems silly, so I’m going to try and do better with it! …
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