2011 was a busy year. Here are some of my favorite projects and tutorials from last year: [...]
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Quilting
I love Michael Miller’s Citron Gray collection so much…I bought some more fabric to make ANOTHER lap quilt AND a baby quilt. I finished this little 36″ x 36″ quilt for Linus specifically to use in the car seat when we’re out and about. I love this simple pattern – here’s basically what I did: [...]
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Since I discovered that my second true love is quilting, I’ve been researching and trying all kinds of different products. Here are some of my favorites: Silicone Spray Spray and wipe off for a super slippery sewing table surface, which makes machine quilting so much easier! I got this stuff at Walmart and tested it [...]
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I decided to try machine quilting my Citron Gray quilt – so far I have quilted inside each of the wonky pieces just following the seam lines, and I love how it turned out. I used a walking foot and it wasn’t too difficult or awkward to handle. For the other half, the solid gray [...]
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Remember this quilt? I don’t have a name for it yet, I’m horrible at naming things…the fabric is Joel Dewberry’s Heirloom in Sapphire. This was my first go at designing on the wall, and I’m sold on that method all the way. I hung up a spare king sized flannel sheet on the wall and [...]
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For a while now I’ve been wanting to try machine quilting a Cricut design onto one of my quilts. I used this border wave design from Life is a Beach on my Marine quilt (by Dan Stiles), and I love how it turned out! I originally quilted straight horizontal lines, but I did them 3″ [...]
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But first…I finished the Citron Grey quilt top! I think I’ll call this quilt Half Crazy. I love it! Pressing seams can be tricky in quilting…open or to the side…? I think it’s a matter of preference. I used to be a strict open seam believer (because I learned to sew clothing first probably) but [...]
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I finished sewing all the strips together on my Citron Grey quilt…only I decided at the last minute to try to do them a little bit wonky. I totally cheated and cut them wonky on purpose, so it wasn’t all free loving with no measuring, but I’m a little braver and think I could try [...]
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Today is Monday, and I WILL have a giveaway this week, just probably not up and running until tomorrow. It’s a good one though…you’ll like it. As for today, I just finished hand sewing the binding onto my Michael Miller Ginger Blossom tumbler quilt. I enjoy hand sewing and always use a slip stitch, which [...]
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The Electric Quilt 7 software arrived in the mail on Friday of last week…I’ve been going NUTS designing patterns with it, and what a difference great technology makes. I went from graph paper and colored pencils and hours of drawing and erasing to being able to create an entire pattern, complete with colors, dimensions, borders, [...]
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