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My Redwork Garden
Welcome to My Redwork Garden, my newest fabric line for Moda It’s one of my favorite fabric lines I’ve designed. I had so much fun working with this fabric I could have kept going and going! As it turns out we have 9 new patterns coming your way and I had to stop because I ran out of time. My newest block of the month quilt My Redwork Garden is a sampler quilt that is so much fun to make! With pieced, applique, and embroidered blocks there’s something for everyone. You’ll meet Millicent Mouse in three of the embroidered blocks. Inspired by an antique 1927 children’s book she’s a “girly” mouse…
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Finishing up 2011
Redwork Raining Cats & Dogs This week we finally finished the new Redwork Raining Cats and Dogs pattern. What a great end to 2011. Say hello to redwork in 2012! Just look at the fabulous quilting! Have you ever wondered how to quilt a redwork quilt? You quilt right through the embroidery! Most of the stitching will sink into the quilt and you’ll never see it. You’ll find this pattern available now on my website but you might want to wait until January 5th if you’re thinking about buying it because… A sale is coming! And you get advance notice because you read my blog! …
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First week of December!
I started December off at our local hospital early on the morning of December 1st. My husband had arthroscopic surgery on his shoulder because of a torn rotator cuff. We had to arrive by 5:45AM. I had envisioned just “us” arriving at that time of the morning, but to my surprise there was a waiting room filled with patients all scheduled for different surgeries. He was assigned a number and from that point on he could be tracked on the surgery tracker board in the waiting room. It’s an amazing, color coded, automated system that lets you see where the patient is at all times…in the preop room, in surgery,…