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My happy little cottage got some added prettiness from my stash of little bits – some lacy frills at the windows and a piece of wide green rick rack. The CUTE factor has kicked in with the Happiness Key mystery quilt.Pat Sloan designed it, inspired by Emilie Richards’ book series, Happiness Key. She’s posting a…
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I am making progress on my Lady of the Lake quilt.Each quilted panel is made up of 4 blocks.Each row is made up of 5 panels.There are {or will be!} 5 rows. Quick! How many blocks total?!? I am once again using a directional backing.I find it helpful if there is a directional fabric to…
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I’ve been working on a present. This little purse is the result. It’s not perfect, it’s a prototype. I tried to make something small for my niece whose birthday is today.Happy Birthday!It’s my second attempt. And it will be late:) I started out by deconstructing a sample of my Pockets of Love pillow cover.It was…
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I am working on getting caught up on lots of projects {and blogging about them too}.Happiness Key is a free mystery quilt designed by Pat Sloan. It is inspired by the series of books by Emilie Richards about Happiness Key and it’s residents. I don’t like to trim half square triangles. I usually use the…
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I’m finally finished! And just in time to share it in the Blogger’s Quilt Festival. The quilt measures approximately 90 inches square. Most of the smaller liberated churn dashes were made by my bee partners in Sew Modern Bee, a Canadian quilting bee that I really enjoyed being part of over the last year. You…
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I finished piecing my LAST giant liberated churn dash for my quilt tonight!I have been away{ and working } and now I’m not sure I will get this quilt done for the Blogger’s Quilt Festival. But I’m gonna try! I set to work at sewing together the first two rows of the quilt. Here they…
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Yes, there are a few Canadian quilt designers with blocks in volume 3 of Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks, besides me! Sharon Pederson – she made it onto the cover! Karen Neary was featured blog Friday – her block is really clever:){And if I’d been more clever, my post in “draft” would have been “scheduled” to take…
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Welcome to my blog and my post for the Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks Issue Vol.3 Blog Tour Giveaway! Please feel free to look around my blog. I enjoy creating with bright fabrics and traditional patterns. I have been quilting for 14 years now. You can read about my story here. Here is my block: Joy Framed…
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I am so happy to have a block included in this issue of Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks! Come back TOMORROW for my giveaway post. Today I thought I’d share how I designed my block. My block was inspired by the photo above.In fact, I have a quilt design all mapped out on graph paper too. This…
