Category:Summer Sampler 2018
Summer Sampler 2018 Finish
The Summer Sampler is a yearly quilt-a-long hosted by Lee Heinrich of Freshly Pieced. I wrote about starting mine last summer in this post and have had the finished quilt top on my to-finish list for a few months now. After I knocked out all the Hawaiian quilts I felt like it was time to …
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Q1’19 FAL Goals
2019?? Really? Seems crazy. I finished 3 of my 5 projects from last quarter, so I have a bunch of new things in the works for Q1’19. 1. Quilt the Summer Sampler: I finished the quilt top at my October quilt retreat, but I was really bugged by a large grouping of orange in the …
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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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Summer Sampler 2018 Progress
This past spring a friend of mine turned me on to the Summer Sampler quit-a-long. They release 1 block pattern a week through the summer – and into the fall really – and then setting and placement instructions at the end. The pattern can be purchased from Freshly Pieced at her shop here. They also …
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