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The past few weeks I've had the wonderful opportunity to make a quilt for a very special little man. Remington was born to my cousin's daughter Kate and her husband Ryan. You may remember a ...
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My dear friend, Alice, recently sent me an email about a Wishing Tree. I enjoyed the story so much I asked her if I could share it with all of you - and here it ...
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The most recent "large" challenge for our ThreadBenders group was entitled "Colored by Emotion", and these were the rules: "Everyone randomly draws one color from a bag, which contains the 12 colors listed on the ...
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Over the years I've done a number of posts about pressing. If you're a quilter, you probably have an iron and know how to use it! Here's a list, and the appropriate links, in case ...
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Now that my compass stars are attached to the background wedges with piping, it's time to layer each wedge and quilt it. I stitched in the ditch down the centers of the compass star points, ...
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For quite a while now I've been telling the students in my Mariner's Compass workshops that I would do a blog tutorial on a fun technique for using corded piping to attach circles to a ...
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Last week I did a "show and tell" about my new Compass Star tree skirt. Both the piping that attaches the stars to the background, and the binding we're made with bias strips. I have ...
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A few weeks ago I posted about what I was stitching on during our time of isolation. One of the projects I shared was a twist on my Mariner's Compass technique inspired by my friend ...
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