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Long Arm Tips – Part 1
I have a friend who recently bought a long arm and I find myself providing all sorts of unsolicited advice. I’ve had my long arm for 3 years and I love it. It really has been quite a learning curve, but I have used mine a lot and am really happy I took the plunge. …
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Chickens for Peg
I made a couple of chicken quilts earlier this year with my online bee group. They all sent me blocks and I assembled them together in to quilts to be donated. My friend, Peg, saw those quilts and offered to purchase one from me. I didn’t feel like I could sell those to her as …
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Smirking Ghosts
This pattern seemed like it was the big thing online last year, but I just really didn’t need another project. A year later, getting closer to Halloween, I kept seeing this quilt again. I kind of have a rule of thumb – if I see something I like but don’t really need I admire it, …
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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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Q4’19 FAL Plans
I did reasonably well during Q3 and finished 3 of my 7 planned goals. Not bad! I also started A LOT of projects, so hopefully the cooler weather will give me lots of time to work on all this stuff. 1. Big Blue Plus: This guy is mostly done, just binding left (this was the …
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