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Ten yards
I've been working hard to finish a quilt for my nephew's high school graduation. I'm going to keep the design of the top hush hush for now, but I'll have photos of the back soon. My mission for the...
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Totem
I've just finished my three Free Bee blocks for May. John Quilt Dad asked each of us to make a stack of three 10-inch quilt blocks inspired by Erin Wilson's Totem series. Each of us chose a color. I...
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No more brown scraps
Because I used all the brown scraps in this quilt back. I just finished the binding on this bed quilt for my nephew. It's a gift for his high-school graduation.I mixed the brown scraps with blues to...
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Traveling Quilts: Round 4
For round 4 of the Traveling Quilts bee I worked on Elizabeth's quilt. For each round of this bee we add to blocks created in the previous round then send to the next quilter for further additions....
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Free Bee: June for Lynne
Another bee block for the Free Bee. This month Lynne asked for blocks that are mostly white/gray/black with a splash of red. She offered a still from Shindler's List as inspiration.I immediately set...
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Siblings Together
Several months ago Lily's Quilts Lynne put out a call for donations to the UK charity Siblings Together. Siblings Together works with kids in the foster care system (as we would call it in the US) who...
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Stencil Quilt Workshop
Yesterday I finished up a two-session Stencil Quilt Workshop at New Pieces in Berkeley. We had a great time and my students did amazing work.We started off discussing reverse applique technique and...
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Picnic Nine-Patch
Thomas sent me a pile of scraps a while back. I'm not sure where he got them, but they weren't quick to make friends with my fabrics. I tend to collect saturated colors; Thomas's scraps were mostly...
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July Bee Blocks
I finished blocks for the Free Bee and the Traveling Quilts round robin earlier this month. July is Stacey's month for the Free Bee, and she asked for strip-pieced improv blocks inspired by the work of...
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Little Things
I made a couple things for Munchkin this week. He's been asking for them for a while. I'm afraid it can be easy to put that sort of stuff off when there is so little sewing time and my head's wrapped...
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August Bee Blocks
Another month, another round of bee blocks. For the Free Bee, Leanne She Can Quilt asked for tiny improv blocks framed by neutrals. I did a bit of curved strip piecing, surrounded by off-white cottons...
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Hurle Burle Marx Quilt
I've just finished a quilt using Thomas Knauer's new Frippery fabric collection for Andover fabrics. It's bright and a bit crazy.The design of the quilt is inspired by the work of Brazilian landscape...
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Hello Houston
Updated with a photo from the Andover booth.This time every year there's a big quilt industry tradeshow and quilt festival in Houston. I didn't go, but two of my quilts are there.Thomas Knauer brought...
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Free and Precise
I finished piecing a new quilt top today. The edges are a little raggedy. I plan to square it up after I quilt it, but for now it's about 80"x100".I didn't have a plan at the start. I knew I wanted to...
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Some quilts want to be noisy
I've started a new project with Thomas Knauer's upcoming Asbury line of prints from Andover Fabrics. Thomas says the designs are inspired by New Jersey beach resort Asbury Park.I started the project...
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Traveling Quilts Bee for John
It waited patiently for several weeks, but I've finally added my bit to John's quilt-in-progress for the Traveling Quilts round robin.John began the quilt with the field of equilateral triangles on the...
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Lucky Trips Around the World
I've gotten caught up in the online quilting fad of the moment, making a Scrappy Trips Around the World quilt following Quiltville's clever tutorial.Last month Alison Glass sent me nine fat quarters of...
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Boardwalk Quilt in Fat Quarterly No. 12
I finished this quilt several months ago. It was a gift for my nephew's high school graduation.I held off showing photos because the pattern for the quilt appears in the new issue of Fat Quarterly. The...
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Stitch Modern
The opening reception for Stitch Modern, the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild's second annual exhibit, is tonight at the Piedmont Center for the Arts.My most recent finish (phew!), Measuring Stars With a...
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Dawna Bell Photography
This post is a bit off topic, but I wanted to take a moment to brag about my sister in law, Dawna Bell. She's a wonderful photographer with a real talent for detail and composition. I'm writing now...
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