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Has this happened to you? It started innocently enough. I have a new placemat pattern I’m working on and decided I needed to get quilting them. Last weekend my husband and I moved a big desk down into my quilting space and today I used it. It’s wonderfully big – there’s easily enough room for…
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Friends on Chelsea Lane BLOOM block under my Sedum JOY Joy in a picture. How do you capture it, contain it, express it in a way to bring someone else joy too? I am thinking more and more about “staging” photographs. BLOOM block with stitching done on my design wall As a maker, I love…
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How are your blocks coming along so far? This week is easy – 9 patch blocks! These should come together quickly for you whatever your stash looks like. Make sure they all have DARK corners and centers – that’s the only trick this week:) I show a quick piecing method in the instructions using strips…
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I have been sewing up some JOY in September – and it turns out a LOT of it is inspired/enabled by Pat Sloan! I did the Vacation Time block right away this month – mostly because I liked it as soon as I saw it and couldn’t resist! So happy to have been able to…
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Just in time for some long weekend sewing! The next block in the Harvet JOY wall hanging is ready. For the pattern this will be the block you see. Somehow I had missed finding this background fabric in my leftover stash from my Halloween 1904. It has tiny little stars on it! The fabric inspired…
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The weather is still dreary here – great for sewing and decluttering! Here’s another tip for you as you work at trimming your Pumpkin Patch Blocks – remember you can find links to all the blocks on the Harvest JOY Quilt Along page here Neat, eh? I do this with my Creative Grid 6 1/2…
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It’s almost here! The end of summer. The weather is weird outside my house today. It looks overcast but feels – weird. Like it can’t decide what it wants to do {kinda like how I feel today!} This month for the Vacation Time block of the month that Pat Sloan is hosting {free through FreeQuiltPatterns.Info},…
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It’s the day after the block directions for the Pumpkin Patch went “live” which means you might already be into your stash getting ready to cut – or perusing your stash in your daydreams while you do other things:) {get your Pumpkin Patch block directions here} The wall hanging will require 5 of the pumpkin…
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It’s time to start making! I picked the Pumpkin Patch block to start with because it was the one that inspired me to start this whole thing!! I think there’s lots of ways you can use this block to bring a little bit of fall into your quilting, whether it’s one block for a pillow,…
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After spending my day making another pumpkin patch block to go with my written directions, I was left wondering – does it matter to YOU? When you’re following a pattern to make a quilt, do you prefer to have photos that use the same colours as the quilt on the cover? Or do you prefer…
