The block I made for Amanda Jean of Crazy Mom Quilts. The blocks this month are really stunning. I’m looking forward to seeing this quilt when it’s all put together. You can see completed blocks on the Virtual Quilting Bee Flickr group.

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Karen Gass, editor of Cotton Spice magazine, is celebrating April as Breast Health Awareness Month. A series of quilt blocks created by guest designers will be featured through out the month. I contributed this Square on the Fence block, a combination of two of my favorites: Square in Square and Rail Fence. Click over to […]

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Thank goodness.
Do you ever volunteer to help out with something and end up completely, totally underestimating the time it will take?
The artwork and image transfer to fabric via Bubble Jet Set was all handled by the 2nd grade class moms. Marybeth O’Halloran of White Lotus Quilting did the exquisite long arm quilting, each block a […]

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A friend of mine traveled with her sister to China last month to bring home her newly adopted niece. I had the wonderful opportunity of running into them all on the street and meeting Xin, a beautiful almost two year old with a huge smile. I immediately started scheming on this quilt for her.

It’s the […]

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As I passed by Pam Clarke’s booth the TV with a video playing of her machine quilting technique caught my eye. It was demonstrating this lowercase L design. Now, my first thought was “I don’t really need a book telling me how to machine quilt an L” but it peaked my interest so I stopped […]

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Yippeeee! March is my month for the Virtual Quilting Bee. New (the polka dots) and old were cut up and mailed off to each member of the group. I’ve requested a log cabin block or variation there of, ala Gee’s Bend and Nancy Crow. Can’t wait to see what these creative bees come up with!
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A HUGE thank you to Kristin at Sew, Mama, Sew! for inviting me to write a guest article on Tuesday. I’m absolutely loving Quilting Month, the quilt of the day is my favorite part. Lots of new visitors have come by (welcome and thank you!) which I celebrated by breaking my RSS feed.
So… another HUGE […]

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The block I created for Jennifer for the Virtual Quilting Bee. She sent us the gorgeous Ikea print with colors galore. There were better photos of the block proper but none captured the sun like this one. It decided to come out and play today, yippeeee, Spring really will come again!
Quilter’s Cache calls this pattern […]

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The 23rd Annual Kitsap Quilters Guild Show is taking place today and tomorrow (Friday & Saturday, February 15 & 16). This quilt stole the show. Margret Darrah is a friend of mine so even though I’m partial to her talent, my jaw dropped when I saw this one. The quilting was done by Marybeth O’Halloran […]

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Mr. E’s teacher quilt, posted two years ago, an excellent example of time flying!

The series of posts I did on that quilt get a fair number of Google visitors. I can tell it’s school auction season because I’m starting to get e-mails requesting help. Time for a round up post.
I did four posts about the […]

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