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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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Tote Bag Experiments
I’ve talked before about my group of friends who go on quarterly quilt retreats. We do a lot of sewing, and I mainly work on piecing quilts, but everyone else is very skilled at making bags and totes. They make at least one bag each retreat, and they are so good that they often just …
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Q2’19 FAL Goals
I was on a roll in Q1’19. Of 11 projects that I planned I finished 6 – a few of which were only in the fabric pull stage when the quarter started. I hope to be as productive in Q2’19! 1. Generative Grunge HSTs: I’ll write more about this later, but I’ve settled on a …
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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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March Bee Chicken Blocks
My International Bee, ‘Bee Inspired‘, changed our format this year to one where we are all doing something a bit different each month. I chose to ask everyone to make blocks that I will make in to a Charity quilt to be donated. The blocks I chose to have everyone make are chickens, made from …
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