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I found Flower Bed Threads at Pat Sloan’s Web Store. She had some preorders of this book that were not picked up, so is now offering them to her customers. My favorite project is the Long pillow. See closeup below.
Go here to see more photos and to see…
This sampler quilt is from a new book The Farmer’s Wife: Letters from 1920s farm wives and the 111 blocks they inspired by Laurie Aaron Hird. If you join Homestead Hearth’s Farmer’s Wife Block of the Month (BOM) program you will get a discount on the book. If…
The pretty women at Marie-Madeline online shop are celebrating Mama Long’s birthday this week with a daily special on selected items.
Go to Marie-Madeline Studio.
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This vintage feeling panel would make for an easy project. Available at Ruby Jane’s Retro Fabric online store. Original design by Stephanie Marriot. Go here to get details.
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Take a look at Heather Bailey’s new collection Nicey Jane for Free Spirit Fabrics. According to the Fat Quarter Shop, this line will be shipped to stores in January 2010.
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Don’t miss Heather Bailey’s live interview on NBC’s Studio 5 where she demonstrates how to make these pretty fabric flowers. Go here to view the video.
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This is a nice variation on the typical grid layout for T-Shirt quilts. Get the instructions for this collage style quilt at Craftzine. Original design by Michelle Kempner.
Via Someday Crafts
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Nine Australian designers are celebrating their new blog Among The Gum Trees by hosting giveaways on each of their individual blogs.
Go here for designer list and links.
Via Espritpatch
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Cherry House Quilts pattern store is partnering with Seaside Quilting Supplies to offer custom kits for Cherry House Quilts patterns. To celebrate this new service, Cherri is hosting a giveaway. She explains there will be, one international, and one stateside. The prize? A little fabric, a little…
Dena of Threads To Fabric blog shares a wonderfully detailed tutorial on paper piecing. She includes a good tip on how to keep your blocks in shape too. Get the how-to.
Via Dena from Quilter Going Bananas
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This whimsically charming appliqued and stitched book center with a fox and bird on top of a cottage speaks to me. Just leave a comment on Lynette Anderson Designs blog and you get a chance to win the pattern Fox Cottage. She used fabric…
With Emma (my daughter’s beautiful Calico cat) on my lap helping me blog, I just found this Furry Purry Audience fabric line in the Grey colorway at eQuilter.com. These kitties’ expressions are authentic, and the neutral palette is as calming as a cat’s…
Mama of Mama Spark’s World is using this Crazy Mom Quilts tutorial from the Moda Bake Shop to make a Stacked Coins quilt for a friend living in Brazil. The friend is expecting a little girl soon. For the quilt fabric she selected Allspice Tapestry by Fig Tree. Here are a few swatches from…
Hillary of Designing Happy blog shares how she made this adorable 11″ x 17″ wall hanging using strips from a Jelly Roll. This doesn’t have to stay on a wall, it’s the perfect size for a dolly quilt. Either Go here for instructions.
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Hillary of Designing Happy blog shares how to make a circular rug from a Jelly Roll. Go here for the fabulous tute.
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Sew Fabulous Quilt Shop is giving away this Christmas Bake Shop Box. Includes 2 Mini Fabric Honey Buns and the directions for the Secret Santa Stocking. Go here to find out how to enter. Winner announced October 1.
A Year of Schnibbles challenge started September 1. Those joining will make a quilt every month from a Schnibble pattern by Miss Rosie’s Quilt Co. Go here to view patterns from her Schnibble collection.
So just what is a Schnibble? In Rosie’s words,
Schnibble: noun A scrap of fabric; a…
If you want to add selvages to your stash you can buy them at the Fabric Square Too Hip to be Square! online shop.
Via Selvage Blog
Find out how to straighten fabric on the grain at Wee Folk Art. Get the tute.
Jane Wickell from About.com: Quilting blog gives a good general explanation of fabric grain in her article Understanding Fabric Grain Improves Your Quiltmaking Skills. Go here to read it.
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This is one of Barbara Brackman’s (quilt historian and author) favorite patterns for showing off prints – notice the large squares that are not pieced. Size is 32″. Available for free download at Barbara Brackman Web site.
While on her site, be sure…