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Thanks to all for commenting on my 100 Blocks Giveaway. My winner has been contacted by email. I’ll let you know once I hear back:) I did get the chance to finish adding some more holly and joining my la-la’s together. Just in the nick of time too! My husband’s dad is coming for a…
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Greetings friends of Sarah Vee! I’m Kay Mackenzie, a quilter and designer in Santa Cruz, California. Sarah and I both have blocks in Volume 4 of Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks. Not only that, we’ve discovered that they’re right next to each other on the cover! How fun is that? Sarah told me that she’s doing a…
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Welcome to Giveaway Day! I am really happy to be included in this issue of 100 Blocks. I may have even squealed when I saw that my block made it to the cover! Jolly Holly – block 362 I wanted to do an applique block with a pieced backing. I thought the buttons were a…
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Tomorrow is my day on the Quiltmaker’s 100 block blog tour. Be sure to come back for a chance to win a copy of the magazine. I also found out while perusing the Quilty Pleasures Blog that they are giving away mugs! You know the mugs. THE MUGS! {This is mine from last time around.}…
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This weekend we went for a speedy quick visit to my folks. My dad had these treasures for me! I love reading old patterns almost as much as making quilts. Notice the sashing advice in this one – Color Could Be Use Here! Speaking of Colour – check out my fabulous new ORANGE Desk! It’s…
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The countdown is on here, and on many other excited designers’ blogs, for the next issue of Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks. The blog tour starts next week. You can check out the Quilty Pleasures Blog where they will lead you around with links and have their own giveaways. My stop is Wednesday, November 9th. 100 Blocks!…
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BOO to You and Yours today! We had lots of fun around here this weekend, especially carving our pumpkins last night. My daughter worked at my sewing machine on her quilt. You can read her post about it here. My son, with his box and Picasso Pumpkin hat, on his way out to the garage…
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Perhaps it was the fact that I needed to iron my husband’s shirts last night that I grabbed my camera first. We have been moving furniture around in our house and currently the living room that is beside my sewing space {our front entranceway!} is mostly empty. I put my ironing board up to the…
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The winner of my Selvage JOY! Pillow Kit is *lovetostitch*! She is a fabulous quilter who I get to chat with regularly over at Pat Sloan’s Quilt Mashup Forum. I was so happy to find out so many of you have selvages and want to use them! Sew. . . I’m having a pattern sale!…
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I recently washed my Liberated Churn Dash quilt for the first time. I was a little worried about my threads coming undone. So far it looks good. I changed the contrast on this photo so you could see how crinkly the quilting got after the dryer. My husband thinks it shrunk – just a bit.…
