Category Archives: Quilting

Cloud9 Fabrics Forest Friends Quilt

This week’s Pink Chalk Fabrics newlsetter featured the above photo, a fabulous crib quilt using Cloud9’s new Forest Friends Organic Cotton Flannel. Here’s a link to the tutorial on the Cloud9 blog showing how to make it. There’s a LOT of inspiration there. The laundry will have to wait.
pink chalk fabrics ~*~ new arrivals ~*~ [...]

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Busy Bees

Finish up one quilting bee and start another. I like new beginnings.
I signed on to another virtual quilting bee several months ago not recording the begin dates or other specifics of participating. Fortuitously enough, as soon as I sent out the blocks from my original bee I received the first set of fabrics from the [...]

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Virtual Quilting Bee – Mission Accomplished

I finished up my final three blocks for the Virtual Quilting Bee.  I’m quite embarrassed at how long it took me to finally complete my end of the bargain (and a little shocked when I realized just how long it had been!) Our ever gracious hostess Mama Urchin sent a reminder e-mail several weeks ago, [...]

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Bumble Beans Inc. BASICS Quilt Gather

This toddler sized quilt has been in my collection of finished quilts for several years now. Patiently waiting to be gifted to the right child. I’ve pulled it out on quite a few occasions. Hmm, no. Not the right match. This time when I pulled it out it was the perfect match. So perfect I [...]

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City Park Ready for Quilting

Greg’s Christmas gift finally has a back!
He picked out Squares Black from the Mingle collection by Monaluna, gorgeous choice and very manly.
The design is City Park by Cherry House Quilts. I absolutely LOVE this pattern. The layout is very clever. There are 6 unique blocks that keep the piecing fun. They go together like a [...]

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Review & Giveaway: Color Your Cloth – A Quilter’s Guide to Dyeing and Patterning Fabric by Malka Dubrawsky

The first time I saw a quilt by Malka Dubrawsky featured on a blog I was floored. Fresh, beautiful, unique, I was in love with this talented woman’s work. Her blog, A Stitch in Dye, has become one of my favorites. I was extremely excited when she first announced she was writing a book.
Well it’s [...]

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Lollipop Forest I Spy Quilt for Craft Hope

An e-mail arrived last spring from Jade Sims, founder of Craft Hope, a project that matches sewing and craft projects with charities. I was thrilled to be asked to design a project for the Craft Hope book Jade is putting together for Lark (to be published next year).
Everything fell into place effortlessly. I was matched [...]

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Fabric Crush

I took the ferry over to Seattle this afternoon to attend an opening celebration for Sarah Stine’s new shop Fabric Crush! It’s absolutely gorgeous and perfect in every way.

The sun shined brightly and the air was perfectly crisp, most definitely a harbinger of great and fabulous things to come.

I met Sarah right here [...]

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Reason No. 309 to Make Quilts

Leil has never met a box she didn’t love.
pink chalk fabrics ~*~ new arrivals ~*~ free patterns ~*~ on sale

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Esther’s Fabrics Celebrates 50 Years

Esther’s Fabrics is my local fabric shop here on Bainbridge Island. It is the oldest continously operating fabric store in the State of Washington.

Customers were invited to bring in quilts to hang in celebration of their 50th Founder’s Day this month. The name of the show is ‘50 Lids’.

I took a couple of my tiny [...]

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