Category:Machine Quilting
Bee Inspired QuiltCon Text Group Quilt
My international Quilt Bee group – Bee Inspired – decided to get together and enter a quilt in the QuiltCon Charity Quilt event. It has truly been a team effort – Velda (Freckled Fox Quiltery) suggested it and got us going, Susan (Sevenoaks Street Quilts) did the design, 10 of us made blocks and sent …
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Big Blue Plus
I like to cut up my scraps in to 2.5″ squares to use up the pieces and make scrappy quilts. They are also really great as leaders/enders when chain piecing so the thread doesn’t get all tangly. The last 2″ (finished) squares quilt I made was my Red and Blue Squares Quilt which I really …
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Chicken Quilts
My international quilting bee group took on a different format this year where we focused more on making blocks for charity quilts. I found the greatest Chicken Quilt Block Tutorial by Sew Inspired online and asked my mates to make them. The block pattern/tutorial was a bit unclear as to which way the big block was oriented …
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Fiber Arts Fiesta 2019
We have a local group called the Albuquerque Fiber Arts Council. They do a great job promoting fiber arts in our area – certainly quilts, but also knitting, weaving, lace making, mixed media…basically anything fiber related. The Council holds a non-judged spring show during even years and a really big judged exposition during odd years …
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Gingiber Cat Quilt and the Worst Quilt Photos Ever Taken
I just love the Gingiber critter panels. I think their original one – at least the first one I saw – had a cute bear. I avoided buying it for a long time…but man it was cute! Their next panel had cats and I loved it even more. To make up for lost time I …
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Sweetwater Feed Company BOM finish
I really like most everything that Sweetwater fabrics does. They do great text prints with pretty coordinating fabrics – I’ve made a lot of quilts from their collections. When I saw this BOM that they were hosting a few years ago I signed up quickly! I was slow to get the quilt done because the …
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