I finished quilting another customer’s quilt- thanks Kathy! Kathy MAILED me the quilt and it was a fun surprise to open it and see that it was a quilt made with MY pattern! This is a blue batik version of “Nighttime by the River” It was quite big and she chose “Finesse” as the long …
It’s time to sew the blocks together into a top! Last week we sorted the blocks into light and dark- half and half. Now lay out the blocks on your design wall and alternate a light and dark block and shuffle them around in such a way that the same fabrics are not close to …
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We’re still sewing the blocks together this week! How far have you come? If you cut this with the QUBE sets and want to show your blocks, please join the FB QUBE group if you haven’t already! If you haven’t finished the blocks, we’ll do them this week, look at the center stars of my …
We finished cutting the pieces, laid them out and “shuffled” the pieces last week. You can sew the blocks together any way you want, whatever works to keep track of where the fabrics go. Here’s one way I did it. I took a whole pile of big star points and backgrounds and the same with …
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Have you downloaded the Nighttime by the river pattern yet? It’s still on sale until tonight at midnight! A bit about colors before we start. As I showed last week, I’m using this black and white bundle from Michael Miller. It’s a cute bundle with a few cat prints too! For fun I added a …
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I’m going to be teaching another class soon at Capital Sew and Quilt in Cary NC I’ll be teaching this quilt pattern called Nighttime by the river It’s a Fat Quarter Friendly pattern and it’s made with a sort of stack and whack method. We won’t be making the quilt in one day, but the …
It’s my blog’s 9th anniversary (Blogger-versary) and to celebrate, connecting threads has sent me this beautiful FQ bundle called Arcadian Dusk It’s worth $79!! and consists of 32 Fat Quarters! and if you haven’t seen it yet, I have a pattern (and kit) for sale on their site too! The pattern is called Nighttime by …
Need a last minute gift idea or something for yourself?? From today until Dec 31st all my patterns are $5 off in my shopity store! (for some reason the code only applies $5 once, I can’t figure out how to change that, so if you want more than one pattern, go ahead and check out …
Look, look, look! I’m in Connecting threads’ catalog! The first one is my “Nighttime by the river” pattern turned into a kit with their new “Arcadian Dusk” collection (picture from CT’s website) You can buy the pattern here if you want to use your own fabrics! (It’s FQ friendly BTW) Next is my “Bird Watching” …
When Carol had a call out for the Wish Upon a star blog hop, I jumped right on it, AND I had just won this FQ bundle by Riley Blake from her! it has a small print, at first I thought it was tiny stars on it, but it’s tiny Xs…. anyways we’ll just pretend …