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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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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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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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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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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I’ve seen a few artists online who work with ‘Generative’ Designs – using computer code to generate quilt designs – and I wanted to give it a shot. Lots of people do very complicated and complex things (and I don’t understand how they do those things!), but we decided to start simple. I roped my …
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