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Challenge Swap
For the third year, a small quilting group I belong to has done a fun challenge and swap combination project. Around September or October we each bring a piece of fabric (fat quarter or larger) to a...
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QuiltCon Jury Results
Every year I enter at least seven juried shows, and QuiltCon is probably the one I fret over the most. It is definitely the show that I have received the most rejections from! Thankfully, the jury...
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2018 Year in Review
Around the beginning of every year, I like to look back on the previous year. I have usually accomplished more than it feels like I have, and 2018 was no exception. I started the year with a 100 Day...
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Negative Space Handbook Blog Hop
Negative space is one of my favorite tools to use in my modern quilt designs, and I was ecstatic when Sylvia Schaefer released her book, The Quilter’s Negative Space Handbook. In this book, Sylvia...
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I’m on the American Patchwork & Quilting Podcast!
Have you had a chance to listen to this week’s episode of the American Patchwork and Quilting Podcast? If you haven’t, I hope you will, because I had the opportunity to be interviewed for it! This is...
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Forward and Back
This Spring one of the quilt groups I’m in issued a challenge to try out a technique called interleaving, and this mini quilt is the result. The idea behind interleaving is to take two relatively...
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Anna Maria Horner & Aurifil Showcase Project
If you have followed me long, you may have noticed that I love a good challenge, so when Aurifil offered their Artisans an opportunity to make a project using Anna Maria Horner’s fabric and Aurifil...
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Composition
I am honored to be an Aurifil Artisan for the second year, and I am particularly excited to participate in a series of challenges that showcase the way their thread is used. The first challenge is to...
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Urban Cabins
Earlier this year a quilt group I belong to, The Columbus Modern Quilters, issued a challenge based on a photograph one of our members took in downtown Columbus, Ohio. (You can see the photo and...
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Entries for QuiltCon 2020
The QuiltCon show entry deadline was earlier this week, and, as always, it seemed to sneak up on me. This year I decided to aim for five entries, which is the maximum number of quilts that one person...
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QuiltCon Jury Results
I’m always impressed with the quick turnaround that QuiltCon manages with their jury process, and this year’s results are in even faster than usual! Modern Quilt Guild members create amazing work, and...
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Creating Pre-Set Hashtags on an iPhone
What on earth is this topic doing on a quilting blog? I’m sure at first glance it makes no sense, but this is actually one of my most used tools. I love blogging, but I post to Instagram everyday which...
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Quilt Concert: First Notes Block 6
Are you ready for some half square triangles?! This Pinwheels and Squares Block uses just triangles and squares to create a design that has a central pinwheel and an implied plus sign. Block 6...
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Quilt Concert: First Notes Block 7
It’s everyone’s lucky week this time around because week are making the Good Luck Token block! Block 7 Instructions Let’s try our luck! Good Luck Token is number 1286 in Barbara Brackman’s...
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Quilt Concert: First Notes Block 8
We are halfway through the blocks for First Notes! This sew along is flying along just like our block for this week, Flying North! Block 8 Instructions Are you ready to take off? The Flying North...
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Quilt Concert: First Notes Block 9
We’re back to one of the larger blocks this week with Eddystone Light! Block 9 Instructions Let’s use our flying geese skills to create this fantastic block! Eddystone Light is block number 2073 in...
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Quilt Concert: First Notes Block 10
The Wyoming Valley Block has a little bit of (almost) everything; squares, half square triangles, flying geese, and even a square in a square for the block center! Block 10 Instructions Let’s get...
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Quilt Concert: First Notes Block 11
Let’s go fly a kite with this week’s block, Flying Kite! Block 11 Instructions It’s time for take off! Flying KiteDownload Flying Kite Instructions Flying Kite is block number 1294 in Barbara...
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Quilt Concert: First Notes Block 12
Give and Take is a bit of a visual balancing act, but this version of flying geese really helps to bring the quilt together. Block 12 Instructions The flying geese in this block are constructed using...
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Quilt Concert: First Notes Block 13
This dynamic block is created entirely with hour glass components! Block 13 Instructions Malvina’s Chain may use all hour glass components, but there are a few construction techniques you’ll get to...
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