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Warm and soft little quilt
Hello, friends! Happy New Year! I hope you had a lovely holiday season. I want to share with you the last two quilts of 2016. A new baby boy came into our family two months ago and naturally, I wanted...
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Quick and easy charm square quilt -tutorial
If you need a baby quilt for today or tomorrow, this project is for you! This quilt took me six hours, from start to finish. Sometimes I sew really fast, but I think any confident quilter can sew it in...
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Quilting with THICK thread- 12wt
Hello friends! Do you have thick thread in your box? How thick? We quilt usually with 40wt or 50 wt. Sometimes we need thinner thread, and other times, when we want to really show off the quilting,...
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Fabric Folded Flowers Quilt
If you haven’t seen yet how I finished these flowers… … here is the pretty table runner. If you are a beginner quilter and free motion quilting scares you, starting with table runners it’s a great way...
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New Free Motion Quilting Designs
Hello friends! Do you make progress in your quilting? I feel that I am less and less productive, because I have too many projects in the works: four, three of them started in the last 2 weeks! So here...
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Free trapunto quilt design
Do you know someone that needs a word of encouragement? Creating messages with batting and thread is simple task! Let’s see the example below. Enhancing a quilt design and giving it a pronounced...
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A quilting message for you
HELLO! “Hello” is a new fabric line by Susan Emory for Michael Miller Fabrics. A blog hop that features this line started a few days ago and I am part of it, too. Today is my turn – I am excited to...
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Free motion quilting design – playing with Aurifil 28wt thread
Here is a new free quilt design for my newsletter subscribers- it is great for free motion quilting practice. You know I adore free motion quilting. For this little piece, I used Aurifil 28wt thread....
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Reverse Applique Quilts – one technique, two quilts!
From time to time, any quilter needs a little variation. It could be a new tool, a new technique or a different fabric than what we usually use. To me, it was this precision knife! Inspired by amazing...
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New Christmas Quilt Pattern
Hello friends, I just checked and the first time I used the knife to cut out a small design was July 31. Now, less than four months later, I have two patterns out that use this technique! Because it’s...
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Christmas Folded Flowers
Since Christmas is around the corner, I thought to make my Folded Flowers pattern in Christmas fabrics. When I see pretty ornaments on fabric, I always think about fussy cutting so here are my fussy...
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New Applique Heart Quilts and Pattern
My poor, neglected blog! It’s only the fault of the technique called “reverse applique”. I make one design, then another one, and then another ten! I sew one design, then I want to see how another one...
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Free Heart Pattern for Coasters
If you have only two hours for sewing, this free heart pattern is for you! A few fabric squares, some fusible web and some heavyweight interfacing (scraps work, too). This is an older design, but this...
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How to quilt feathers on hexagons
Hello friends? Do you like to quilt feathers? Have you tried it yet? I ADORE it and my favorite shape to quilt on is the hexagon. AURIFIL 28wt – my new LOVE! I have a big wholecloth quilt quilted with...
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New Wholecloth Quilt Pattern
Do you remember these little white hexagon flowers? I love the look so much and I thought to quilt an entire flower sphere with this motif. And here is the result: The flowers are small and easy to...
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How to turn an octagon into a square
I started this quilt a few years ago (pattern here) and I am happy that I am finishing it (my baby nephew needs a new quilt!). It started with a 2” octagon; 8 triangles surround it. The result is a...
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Small wholecloth quilt – free motion quilting practice
Hello friends! Here is a new wholecloth quilt, it’s small, the rosette measures 20”. This design can be quilted with the walking foot; it can also be free motion quilted- this is what I chose to do. I...
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New Patchwork Quilt Pattern
Hello, friends! I am so glad to show you my latest quilt. Let’s start with the top! Here are a few of the 54 blocks I made. The beautiful fabric is from the Fossil Fern collection by Benartex. In spite...
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Eat that frog! And how it applies to quilting
Eat That Frog is a book by the famous Brian Tracy. Here is an excerpt from Brian’s website(click here to learn more): Mark Twain once said that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live...
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How to sew faux trapunto
Do you quilt with two layers of batting? For this quilt-as-you-go quilt I used for some blocks cotton+a fluffy polyester batting and this gives such a wonderful definition to my quilting. But this time...
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