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Scappy Plates Update
It’s that crazy time before market when my blog posts begin to dwindle. I apologize in advance and I’ll try to do better, but I do have a good excuse. I’m working on new designs! Maybe not as you envision because I won’t have any fabric until April. No rotary cutters, thread or sewing machines are involved now. All I have are fabric scans that I’m using to fill my drawings and hopefully make a computerized version of the quilts I picture in my head. It’s a strange way of working and I prefer the real fabric but I know I’m not alone. Lots of other designers have…
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Scrappy Plates Part Three
If you’re making a Scrappy Plate Quilt, part three is ready to download. Just think, by next month you could have a finished quilt. Some are starting to show up on my Flickr group. Scrappy Plate Instructions Part Three My own Scrappy Plate quilt just came back from Lynne my quilter and just look the quilting! Don’t you love the quilting? If you look at the last photo you can see a bit of the scallop line traced with a water erasable marker and the border quilting. I’ll show you more as soon as the binding is on. If you don’t want a scalloped border you can complete your…
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Warning! Watch out for the Dresden Bug!
This little bug can be hazardous. She may look innocent, but once you get her she’ll give you Dresden fever… …and then look at what can happen! Kim came to work today and collapsed. She collapsed from the weight of all the Dresden Plates she made over the weekend. She got the bug! Plates were flying everywhere in the studio. Poor Chelsea tried to help but didn’t really know what to do… It all started when the bug got into Kim’s sewing room. That bug made her so feverish she couldn’t stop sewing…not even to fix dinner for her poor family. She’s been sewing all weekend and her…
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Vintage Treasures
We all seem to love those vintage treasures, especially when they happen to be quilts. Since many of us are working on our Dresden quilts I thought you might enjoy seeing pictures of a few vintage ones today. I was lucky enough to find this one on eBay last year for $28.00! My friend Nancy found this beauty in Sisters Oregon. I’m not sure what she paid for it but something tells me it was more than $28.00. It’s pieced with wool, silk and cotton, and embroidered with floss and yarn! Just look how sweet this one of Nancy’s is… Sometimes you can find unfinished blocks like these… …Or,…
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Dresden Progress
This week has been crazy. Too much to do and not enough time. I’m working on a new fabric line and it’s taking longer than expected. A deadline is looming and I’m crossing my fingers I get it off to Moda soon. I’ll be so happy! In the meantime everyone at Bunny Hill has been working on my Scrappy Plate quilt, helping to get it ready for the quilter. I can just hear you saying…hey that’s not fair…she has help! Let’s just say it’s a good thing. Machine applique has become my best friend and almost all of the plates have been appliqued by machine! If you follow my method…
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Rainy Days are for sewing
Happy Monday everyone! I’m off to teach at our local quilt shop Thimble Creek today. We’re making wool snowmen pillows in January! Unheard of you say? Just think of the start these ladies will have. Remember how fast last year flew by? Here’s our project for today… Snowballs is a fun, quick and best of all EASY pattern! You’ll find it here on my website. Since I’m on the subject of snowmen, I thought you might enjoy seeing this quilt! I spoke at the Diablo Valley Quilter’s Guild last week (what an incredible group of people), and this quilt (Snowbound) was made by Mary Anne the President of the…