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I’m joining a monthly challenge next year! Jen has put together a fabulous, colorful adventure for next year. This is the third year she has hosted a Monthly Color Challenge and I am delighted to be a blogger participating in it this year. To find out more, visit the introductory post at Patterns by Jen.…
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This month’s feature pattern is the Midnight Churn ornament. I made this pattern for last year’s A Needle Pulling Thread ornament issue. I made several and gave them away, adding them to wrapped gifts. The pattern includes a second pattern for a simple tree as well. I used them both at the same time to…
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My local quilt guild held our quilt show the weekend of October 19 and 20. I was happy to have several quilts to hang in the show – my first! I finally got the chance for a full picture of my Monterrey Medallion (by Atikinson Designs). It turned out great! It’s for my daughter and…
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Last week was my turn again over at QUILTsocial. If you haven’t checked it out lately, you should! There have been some great projects recently. Just in time for gift making season. I’m still enjoying every stitch with this PFAFF machine! It’s the quilt expression 720 and it makes coming up with new projects pretty…
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It’s already four weeks into the Winter Fun sewalong with Pat Sloan so it’s definitely time I post some photos of my blocks! I’m having fun using up a layer cake of Nordic Stitches that I couldn’t resist buying several years ago now. The fabric is winter themed with knitting stitch patterns, deers and hearts.…
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Time to celebrate fall and all the holiday hosting to come! This pattern was actually created as a free pattern to celebrate 300 blog posts – now I’m over 900! This month’s Feature Pattern is the 9’s a Charm placemat pattern and it’s charm pack friendly. Add a little yardage for the borders and you get four…
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My quilt guild meetings have started for another year. The first lottery block was assigned to bring to this month’s meeting and it’s a modern one – Circle of Friends. The colors are to be on the masculine side with a beige background. We did a bear paw block in these colors last year and…
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It’s a new month! The Quilter’s Meet and Greet is complete for another year. Benita has her round up post announcing the winner of the grand prize on her blog. Visit her and you’ll still find the links to all of the blogs in case you didn’t get to all of them – I know…
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This month’s feature pattern is Churn, Baby, Churn This quilt pattern makes a baby size quilt using only a layer cake – no extra yardage required! There are leftovers to use on the back or to use in another project. This backing for this one was designed for my son’s teacher as a baby gift…
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Do you like to work on patchwork projects that are different sizes? I do! Do you have projects waiting for fabric and can’t just go buy the whole store?! I do! Then you might enjoy this post 🙂 If not, you might still be curious about how I find fabric for projects and keep myself…
