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Here is the cover of my Free Motion Quilting Journal. I cut out photos of quilted quilts from old Keepsake Quilting catalogues. Then I went into the cupbaord and started pulling out projects to practice on. I don’t honestly know how long ago I made this. I know I tried aging it by putting it…
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I finished adding the orange sashing and inner border. Now onto the striped outer border! Here’s the top edge of the quilt. The corner squares mark the fact that I’m making small baskets to go in the corners, with the stripe fabric as the background colour. The outer border finishes at 6 inches – just…
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I should be sewing on my last orange inner border and writing up a pattern, but,I’m kind of tired from shovelling sand out of the giant hole in my backyard. My husband is fixing our buckled wood foundation – two weeks before he goes back to teaching! So, here’s a giveaway to check out –…
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August string blocks done. I know there’s one week left, but I do these blocks as ‘leader and ender’ pieces. I’ve been sewing things I can’t share {yet!} and getting some monthly sewing done too. I’ve also started to look at some of my machine quilting resources in preparation for the Free Motion Quilt Along.…
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This is the Mystery Basket quilt I found through Megan at Will Work for Fabric.Here is her completed top.I discuss my different block arrangement a bit here. I have been working at sewing the sashing in.This is what I ended up with at the partial seam assembly: Almost 2 inches too long. I took out…
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If you are interested, or need this kind of help and motivation, check out the blog A Few Scraps. It starts on the weekend and sounds doable. Even for me! There’s even a giveaway involved to get you, me, US! excited about free motion quilting. I hope this will help me tackle the growing pile…
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Please. That’s what my husband requested when we decided my Sew Modern Bee Quilt would be for him. {actually, he said something like,” you know what colours you usually use – not them“. Once I dusted off my pride, we got back to planning!} Too bad, because the orange from my Mystery Basket quilt looks…
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This post is kind of a buffet of different things to catch up on.Brunch sounds so much more appealing than leftovers! Since it’s all new to you – enjoy! The backing fabric for my Sew Modern Bee quilt finally arrived. It took almost 6 weeks. Good thing I ordered it early. It’s from the Pillow…
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This post is a bit wordier than the last. I’ve had time to think and that usually makes me wordy! I’d love to know if you make a sun too! Now, back to making Sun Shine. . . I left off last post with making the rays. In this photo you can see how angles…
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Here’s a mini tutorial {or process post },more or less {less = no measurements.I just used what I had and made the rest up!},about how I made my sun. My sun’s original centre – not very sunny! I thought I would just add the blue edges and it would round out. {inspired by making August…
