A faithful and super talented reader of my blog, Lara Buccella, contacted me recently to ask if I would like to review her new book Crafted Applique. Lara has been super dear to me, so I might have said yes just because of that…but it turns out that her book is about a process that […]
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I’m so pleased today to share a fabulous book coming out by Kevin Kosbab, The Quilter’s Applique Workshop. Kevin has covered every last detail of multiple applique techniques and tools in this book. If you have ever wanted to try applique, this is a perfect starting point. In particular he discusses raw edge applique, fusible
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I still have a couple of bee blocks to finish for this month(!) and I’d love to get that all done before we move at the end of the week. I’m not sure what life will be like for a bit and I’m not sure when I’ll have internet access! Agh! Hopefully, we’ll have that
Oh with the holidays and international shipping, it was a while before my partner Mandy from the last round of modern swappers (now Make Mine Modern) was able to receive her package. I wasn’t able to share very much of what I was sending her because it was all too specific to her and I
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Well I’ve been sewing every day I think and I still have a mountainous pile of things to get done…quilts to finish and start! Clothes to make and mend… Bee blocks to send out…swaps to finish. Oh, the craziness of my sewing world. In fact, it’s gotten so crazy that my husband and I have
Well, in a feat worthy of the great quilters (whoever they might be! LOL), I made my mug rug yesterday. Yup…started, continued, and then finished! Woohoo! I’m usually one of the first to be done with this kind of thing, but I’ve been swamped recently and couldn’t get to it until now. But we’re leaving
I’ve finished my last row for the Row Robin Quilt Swap. This time I worked on a row for Carrie’s flower quilt. I didn’t mind working on this one and came up with my idea fairly quickly and thankfully had just the right amount of the right fabrics. It’s amazing what working with some favorite
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