From the Quilt University student newsletter, here are the listings of 2009 classes still available – last start date is October 30. Note: These are all online classes. Be sure you know you will have time to participate before you … Read More...
Last chance 2009 classes at Quilt University
From the Quilt University student newsletter, here are the listings of 2009 classes still available – last start date is October 30. Note: These are all online classes. Be sure you know you will have time to participate before you join…
Witching Hour panels and yardage
I’m bewitched by these vintage looking panels from the fat quarterr Shop. They belong to the fabric line Witching Hour.
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The witching hour approaches – be ready! Black cats sit atop a picket fence, spelling out Halloween … Read More...
Witching Hour panels and yardage
I’m bewitched by these vintage looking panels from the Fat Quarter Shop. They belong to the fabric line Witching Hour.
Product description:
The witching hour approaches – be ready! Black cats sit atop a picket fence, spelling out Halloween Greetings ….
Check out the Witching…
Free pattern: Flower Pot Pillow
This cheery pillow is a free bonus project made from a block in Cindy Lammon’s new book Flower Pots. Get the pillow pattern at Hyacinth Quilt Designs. You can get the book at Connecting Threads.
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Free pattern: Windmill Wagga quilt
Giveaway: Meadowsweet Pear and Peach
Exciting news this week at Portabellopixie blog. Sandi Henderson’s new fabric line Meadowsweet is coming out in November. And today there’s even better news, we get a chance to win some Meadowsweet fat quarters. Go here for details on how to enter. But hurry, winners will be…
Free pattern using Holiday Magic fabric
This is not a quilt project however, the fabric in this free download certainly should be! It’s Holiday Magic by Studio efabrics. Original design by Dena Thompson. Check out some of the fabric below.
Click here to see the rest of this fabric line.
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Giveaway Roundup
Here are some of my favorite giveaways for this week:
- –Cathy at Pink Chalk Studio is giving away 24 Fig Tree patterns courtesy of Joanna from Fig Tree Quilts.
- –Judi of Green Fairy Quilts is giving away All Boxed In! and Layers of Love, two brand new…
Free pattern: Housework Whenever!
This free pattern features the cute retro Housework Whenever! fabric line created by Sharon Yenter for In The Beginning fabrics. The quilt is an original design by Jason Yenter. Go here to download.
Via fabtalk
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…Video tutorial: Folding a fat quarter
At Kootoyoo blog find out how to turn an 18′ x 22″ piece of fabric into a perfect square fat quarter. It even has pockets. This is not how I fold mine, but I’m going to try it the next time I gift a fat…
Video tutorial: Folding a fat quarter
At Kootoyoo blog find out how to turn an 18′ x 22″ piece of fabric into a perfect square fat quarter. It even has pockets. This is not how I fold mine, but I’m going to try it the next … Read More...
Another small fabric shop gone
This afternoon during a Sunday afternoon drive to Greenwood (population around 7000), I noticed this For Sale sign on what used to be a fabric store. I had visited there once and had admired the 1800s building that housed the shop.
I stopped the car and snapped some photos. Check out…
Tips: Pressing seams in quilting
An iron is an essential tool in producing quality quilts. The Tech Editors at C&T Publishing blog share how to correctly approach seams as you are piecing a quilt top.
- Press as you go
- Press instead of iron
- Set the seams
- Press seams to one side
Meet Volksfaden the “people’s thread”
I have the best time browsing the Volksfaden Online shop not only because they carry great fabric, but for the artful way they display it. They use some of the fabric from within a category for the navigation button. Shown here is the…
Sun Bonnet Sue wields a knife
Dawn of Spring Water Designs blog posted some of her favorite quilts from the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza. This one made me laugh so hard - each block is a scene from a movie. Called Sun Bonnet Sue Does Hollywood, Sue shows up…
Ta dah!: Double stitched log cabin block
Kelli from And Then There’s Rustic blog shares her first finished log cabin block using a double stitch technique. I hope she will share the finished quilt with us. Go here to visit this post.
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BOM: Sweet Nostalgia free!
Thanks to alert blogger Quilter Going Bananas, I just downloaded my very first Block of the Month (BOM) called Summer’s Gone, from Dorothy Baker Designs blog. The embroidery motif of school children approaching their big yellow school bus captures the excitement of going back to school.
Oh,…
Flower Bed Threads left behind available
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…
Farmer’s Wife Sampler quilt BOM
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…