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Scrappy Geese
My Albuquerque Modern Quilt Guild has an annual Destash Sale every August. I successfully avoided it last year, as heaven knows I don’t need any more fabric, but this year I couldn’t resist. I found a few really great additions, but none better than a scrap bag of really cute critter fabrics. I posted details …
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Q4’17 FAL Goals
I’m suffering from a bit of a loss of my sewing mojo. This is kind of a strange thing as I love the last 2 quilts I finished and I got a ton of positive feedback about both of them. It turns out I also won prizes in the Q1 and Q2 FAL, which was …
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Sunday Stash – August 27, 2017
The Albuquerque Modern Quilt Guild had their annual de-stash sale on earlier this month. I really should have bought a table to sell some stuff and not gone shopping, but alas, shop I did. I couldn’t resist this really cute pack of fabric pieces and scraps. Aren’t these bugs in the jars cute? These turtles …
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Sugar Block 3.0 BOM – it is done!
Last year my Albuquerque Modern Quilt Guild decided to do the Sugar Block Club 3.0 Block of the Month club. It seemed like we all had a lot of energy about it for the first few months, but the enthusiasm waned. I tried to keep up with the blocks every month, and had a big …
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A Few Days Quilting with Angela Walters
My Modern Quilt Guilt is great, and they really know how to put on an event. Last year they brought in Victoria Findlay Wolfe, and this year it was Angela Walters. She held a lecture, a dinner, and four days of workshops. It was truly an awesome weekend. When I first signed up for the …
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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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