I was able to squeeze in some time on the 4th to do a little sewing. And when I say little, I mean size, not time! I paper pieced a spooky house for my doll quilt that measures less than 6″ tall…probably 5″ come to think of it. It was tedious, but rewarding as I […]
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Well I saw a tutorial that I just had to try! Comfortstitching has written up a wonderful tutorial complete with templates for this little quilt. (You can find the link in my tutorials I want to try section!) So the other night I finally decided to break out the scraps and start putting this together.
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Well I finally had to make out a schedule for all my bees and swaps because I’ve gone a little nuts and I’m involved in a bunch of things. Plus it helps me keep track of my goals for the year. So here it is! 2010-2011 Bees and Swaps Schedule Busy Bees – June 2010
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Well I did it. I posted my sketch of my initial ideas for my doll quilt on the page…now we’ll see what kind of reactions it will get. I’m not much of an artist, but I know what I want to do and vaguely where fabrics will be going. So I was trying to convey
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Well the babe slept long enough for me to work on my blocks for June for the Sew Liberated. This month, the host wanted liberated baskets. It was nice because the blocks all needed to be the same height, but the width did not matter. Everything about the blocks was very free form. If you
Well I couldn’t resist and did end up opening my birthday gift early. But I did make my husband sing happy birthday to me before I used it! 🙂 I think that it’s going to be great. It doesn’t look hard to use at all and hopefully will really help me design my own quilts
Sometimes I get tired of coming up with titles… Read More »
I was planning on showing you all this layout for my paintbox quilt and talking about what I’m doing differently… I’m happy with some things about this layout and not about others. But as it turns out, it really doesn’t matter. Because last night my little kitty decided to have some fun and this is
Reason number 582 that I need a design wall… Read More »
For the Pretty in Pink Bee June Blocks we got make Wonky Scrappy Log Cabins with the most delicious fabrics! It was fun because I really hadn’t seen most of the fabrics before. That is one of my favorite things about bees…getting to work with so many different fabrics. It adds to my growing list
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The Bee Modern Swap is coming to a close…just one more month left. It’s been bitter sweet filled with fabulous fabrics and interesting ideas, but lots of lost members for who knows what reason. I don’t want to judge, I’m sure that they have very good reasons for not being around anymore. It’s just that
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This is a tutorial on one way to make a nine patch block. The Nine Patch is one of the most basic blocks used in quilting and it’s very helpful to be able to make it well. It is the starting point for many other designs. This will help you perfect the Nine Patch and
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