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Last week I began sharing my "Book cover" adventure with measuring, cutting and stitching the words. Jackie commented that she wanted information on the Brother ScanNCut™. It's an amazing electronic cutting (and marking) machine for ...
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Over the years I've made a number of book/journal covers, for various reasons. Most often it was as a project for one of Wendy and my Sew We Go adventures. Recently I've been concerned because ...
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Last year I wrote a post about a quilt my friend Eileen made for her husband Ken (to read that post click here). It was a traditional bear's paw pattern done with a fun, new ...
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I love quilts. I especially love old quilts - and they don't need to be museum quality. As many of you may know I have a lecture about my "less than pristine" collection of quilts ...
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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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