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Before I share my absolute favorite marking tool, I have a bit of travel information I'm excited to share. Back in March I did a post about my next quilter's adventure - I will be ...
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Before I jump into this week's post, I need to share something about last week's post (click here if you missed it). I should have warned Cynthia, the maker of the Magne-dots, that I was ...
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While in Paducah this Spring Eileen and I stopped by a vendor booth owned by Cynthia Ellis. She is not a quilter, but she does beautiful wood turning. I already have a lovely turned seam ...
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Last week I showed you my latest "modular" style quilt, where the blocks are each finished as individual small quilts and arranged and rearranged on a background quilt through the magic of Velcro™. This week ...
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The Madison Quilt Expo has a challenge every year and I entered it a few years back when the theme was Autumn in Wisconsin. This was the quilt I made for that challenge. I call ...
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I often need to photograph my quilts for entering contests, but I've also made a habit of taking pics of every quilt I make to have a record of them. Taking photos of a quilt ...
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I had a number of readers ask about the thread/machine I used to do the quilting in the background of this quilt. I have a Handi-quilter Sweet 16, sit down mid-arm machine, and I used ...
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As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I have a quilt hanging in the National Quilt Museum in Paducah! Praise the Lord! During Spring Quilt Week the museum held a "Meet the Artist" event and ...
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