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Make a List for 2018!
Chelsea and I each made a bucket list back in 2011, and I found a copy of it today. Six years later and we haven’t completed much on our list. Chelsea’s still waiting for her pink convertible, and I’m still trying to organize my photos. The beautiful thing about this list is that it’s New Year’s Eve and we have another full year to complete it! I told her I think we need to review and set more realistic goals for 2018. She keeps reminding me that she’s getting older and wants to update her list with things like a fluffy new bed. She’s been lounging around today watching me fill…
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How will I choose?
I knew most of you are talented and good at applique, but I had no idea how many of you are such good designers! The blocks coming in for my stocking contest are so good I’m going to have to have a committee to help me choose just 3. Think about it, the stockings are fairly small, about the size of what you might hang on a tree, and the entire block is only 8″ finished! But what this group has filled them with amazes me! Here are a few that just came in. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have! Look at…
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Sugar Plum Christmas
I’ve been waiting for almost a year (that’s how long it takes for fabric to get from the design board to the bolt) and the Sugar Plum Christmas bolts have finally shipped from Moda! Your local quilt shop should have it very soon! UPS is also delivering boxes of fabric to Bunny Hill so we can cut it into some special kits. One kit you already know about (Glitter Houses), but the other kits I can’t tell you about yet! All in good time :>) Many of the fabrics from Sugar Plum Christmas are sold out at Moda and we won’t be able to get them again. So my advice…
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Bunny Hill Scrap Bags
It’s scrap bags and thread this month at Bunny Hill. Sue and I spent a wonderful sunny day out on my driveway, bagging up 3 huge boxes of scraps from Moda; one box of Sugar Plum Christmas and 2 boxes of Lily & Will Revisited (cotton and flannel). All of these bags are currently residing on my dining room table waiting for us to add them to our website! We also made up grab bags from our left-over Spooky Delights fat quarters. If you’ve purchased a scrap bag from us before you know how much fun they are! These are the end cuts of the sales reps sample cards. You’ll get a…
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Happy New Year Everyone!
I love doing a giveaway, especially to start a New Year! Just imagine, some Sugar Plum Christmas could be coming your way before it even ships to the stores! Are you ready for the winners of the New Year’s giveaway? If you see your name below, you’ve got a goodie coming in the mail as soon as you email me your address! Just click on the “contact” link at the top of the blog. Annette Crain: you win a fat quarter bundle of Sugar Plum Christmas Lace Faerie: you win the Sugar Plum Christmas Aurifil Thread kit with the new 80wt. thread. Beth Reilly: you win the Sugar Plum Christmas fat…
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Applique Basics
When Aurifil introduced their new 80wt. thread for applique, Kimberly (Fat Quarter Shop) and I, decided it was a great time to bring you some applique fun using this wonderful thread! Over the next few months The Jolly Jabber blog will be featuring posts on applique, every other Thursday, starting today! I designed 6 applique blocks for this series and The Fat Quarter Shop will have them for free! They’ll include one of the patterns with each of the applique blog posts! Each block can be framed, or you can simply add a border and use it as a mni quilt. They are great practice blocks to keep up your applique skills, and maybe along the way…