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What comes first, the fabric or the quilt?
What comes first, the fabric or the quilt? Ever wondered about it? When I started designing, it was the fabric that inspired me. I’d wait on pins and needles to see the newest lines from Moda. I’d have several quits in my head and when I saw the right fabric I’d start designing. Oh joy how things have changed! Now I design the quilt first and spend many happy hours choosing colors and drawing fabrics to go with it. Think what this would mean if you were the designer. Your colors could vary to fit the quilt, and suddenly you’d have your own backgrounds and prints that work…
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Makin’ it Cute
“Makin’ it Cute” flower templates from Me and My Sister Designs have so many uses! If you love flowers then you’ll love these templates. You can make fabric flowers, felt flowers and even paper flowers! My granddaughter Alyssa, used a flower as a hair clip. Then she tried it as a necklace. And finally she used it as a bracelet and painted her fingernails to match. We made some felt flowers and used them to decorate a bulletin board. Then we glued some flowers to magnets and used them to decorate a white board. We thought a Chelsea Chihuahua flower hat would be cute. Or a Milkshake flower bonnet. You…
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Have you seen this book?
Have you seen the book called “The 1718 Coverlet” by Susan Briscoe? It’s not published yet, but you can pre-order one from Amazon. They start shipping on August 19th and this is one of those books I think you’ll want! I fell in love with this quilt the minute I saw it. The original quilt was reconstructed with the help of The Quilter’s Guild and both the original and the reconstructed quilt will be on display in Britain from September 5th through December 13th. It would be worth the trip just to see this quilt! You can read all about the quilt on Amazon or Facebook. Be sure and…
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My family is here!
Guess who’s visiting? It’s my family from Germany and I’m just in heaven! My grand-daughter Lily just turned 3 and she chats away in both German and English. If she’s talking in German to me, I can say “Lily, tell Grandma in English” and she’ll translate. It’s amazing to see what children can do when they are raised with two languages. Mon always speaks German to her and Dad speaks English. She goes to an American/German pre-school and one teacher speaks German and the other speaks English. Because she’s learned both languages at the same time she thinks nothing of it. Every morning Lily and I take the dogs…