Sentimentally Yours in THE QUILTER (November 2009)

Good day, everyone! I hope you have had a good start to your week. I will be playing catch up this week on top of my LONG list of things to accomplished. I am swamped!
Besides Cottage Garden, my “Sentimentally Yours” Quilt is also featured in the November 2009 issue of “The [...]

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PROJECTS to welcome Spring!

If you are looking for fun quilt projects to welcome spring, may I suggest —
1. Pieceful Garden (featured in the November 2008 issue of “The Quilter”) — the kits are very limited in number. Only three left. Order yours today at my website:

2. Cozy Patch (featured in the May 2009 [...]

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Simple Pleasures

Life is full of simple pleasures – as long as we take pauses to appreciate the world around us. To me, being able to sit in my chair and do a bit of stitching is one of life’s most enjoyable simple pleasures. Seeing a completed quilt adding to the coziness of home [...]

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Pieceful Garden Scrap Project: Part 3 (Final Part)

I finished the other scrap project over the weekend using the Pieceful Garden kit scraps. I made it into another pillow because I didn’t foresee myself having time to do the quilting if I had turned it into a table-runner or another small wallhanging.
I used this configuration, and added some borders:

I dis-engaged the nine-patches [...]

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Pieceful Garden Scrap Project: Part 2: My not so “scrappy” pillow

I underestimated the time I would need to complete my scrappy projects from the Pieceful Garden kit scraps. But I did get one of the scrap projects done last night. It turned to be a not-so-scrappy looking 24″ pillow:

The pride and joy of my pillow is the fabric yoyo! I have never [...]

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“The Quilter” (November 2008)

I received my complimentary November issue of “The Quilter” in which my “Pieceful Garden” is featured!! I set the magazine with the pages open to my quilt on the dining table:

Right after the article on the “Pieceful Garden” is Benartex advertising the VERY same fabric collection (FAMILY TREE by Pam Lindquist) I had used for [...]

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“Lemonade” Smocking & News

HAPPY MONDAY, Everyone, I hope you have had a great weekend! I had a blessed one even though it was a bit hectic.

“Lemonade” Quilts are quilts made with either a pink or yellow color scheme. I thought I would show you the 95% finished smocking on my dotted Swiss “Pink & Yellow Lemonade” [...]

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Pieceful Garden Scrap Project: Part 1

This is a super-easy way to use up the scraps left over from the “Pieceful Garden” quilt kit. You should have enough to construct two separate blocks for the ideas shared below:

You may simply sew the four pieced triangles together to form a square block. Feel free to add borders to make the [...]

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Block Scraps and Award

I ended with a bunch of “block” scraps from the “Pieceful Garden” quilt:

I had invested time in constructing those blocks, and just didn’t feel right tossing them away! I was trying to come up with a bonus free pattern to offer with the “Pieceful Garden” kit, and thanks to my quilting mentor Barbara, [...]

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Secret no longer!!!

My bloggy friends, you were there with me through the thick and thin of the construction of my “Pieceful Kingdom” quilt a few months ago. Thank you, and thank you, for your encouragement when I was making the quilt! Here it is, FINALLY!!!

This quilt was made with the popular fabric line “Family Tree” by [...]

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