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EQ Lessons and Accuquilt fun

It’s funny, I have several online friends and most I’ve never met. and sometimes we chat on PM or email back and forth. One lady who’s a new friend is Dale, she joined the Accuquilt FB group and I talked her into the QUBE set and she’s also bought other dies, then later we talked …

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One thing leads to another

After finishing piecing 2 secret quilts for Accuquilt, I decided to clean out my sewing machine and bobbin area and I found TWO dust bunnies! Good thing I got them NOW or they would have procreated and made more!! I then started organizing my quilt piles and put some more up for sale on my …

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Island batik challenge–Modern quilts

This month’s challenge is MODERN and we’re allowed to use ANY fabrics in box #1 including these SURPRISE fabrics, it’s a gorgeous bundle and I’ve already cut into them as we had to make kennel quilts for Island Batik, so I had these leftover strips and really, really wanted to use them Modern quilts often …

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Rainbow blocks

In between bigger projects I’ve been catching up on the RSC18 rainbow blocks, I had neglected them for 2 months, so the colors were pink and yellow. Here’s bear claw blocks and the 5 so far! the green seems like the odd one out with that big print, hmmm Then there’s sister’s choice blocks and …

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Blue Lagoon pattern

I can finally show this new pattern I’ve been working on and have now listed for sale! It’s called Blue Lagoon I have it listed  in my craftsy store The quilt is made with “London Calling” by Island Batik fabrics It measures 42” x 42” and it may look hard to make but it’s NOT! …

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Yellow brick road batik quilt is done

I finally got around to quilting this yellow brick road baby quilt where I had used FQs from Island Batik! Since I quilted last time with a clamshell template and variegated thread, I found that it was threaded all wrong so I wanted to try again and this time I picked the 4” clam shell …

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Another REAL IB pillow

Since my first Pillow project for this month’s theme for Island Batik was pincushions and that’s kind of cheating, I wanted to make a REAL pillow (cover) I have several older European pillows in my closet that we just don’t use anymore, and even though it’s not quite square I am treating it like it …

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Playful pillows with Island Batik

When this month’s theme was announced, I knew what I would do- take the word “pillow” lightly… You know me, what else is a pillow but SMALLER?? PINCUSHIONS! I make lots of pincushions!! So here’s the first two for this month’s theme! I already showed the hummingbird one as it was for my pincushion swap …

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A “just because runner”

I’ve been working on secret projects and it’s frustrating that I can’t show much. But I took a break and was looking at my batik scraps and decided to use my QUBE set and make a X and + table runner I used the 6” set and matching companion set (corners) and soon I had …

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