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A Quilt Sandwich
How to make a quilt sandwich.Tape backing fabric to the floor. Layer batting.Top with quilt top.Use basting spray and pins to cement it all together.Add one cat bathing herself. She's really dirty,...
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My Lucky Day
A couple of weeks ago, The Cottage Home blog held a fat quarter giveaway in conjunction with Riley Blake Fabrics. The prize was a fat quarter bundle from the fabric line Little Matryoshka by Carly...
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First Quilt - Finished!
It has happened. I have completely finished my first ever real quilt. And it didn't even take me years to complete - which is what I thought would happen.I got the instructions for my quilt from the...
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Spring
Spring is slowly coming to East Texas. Oh how I wish it would hurry up. We had one nice week where the temps were in the high 70's but then it went back down to freezing at night and 50's during the...
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My Birthday Weekend
My birthday wasMarch 10th which was a Sunday and the first weekend of Spring Break for us. I realize I'm late posting this, and I apologize, but I just had to share some of the weekend festivities...
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Nest
Look what I found a few days ago. By accident. I was just looking around the flower bed in the backyard and there it was. So I looked around for the momma and saw her sitting on the fence waiting...
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Nest Part 2
Look what's in that sweet little birds nest now: I love spring. What sweet babies.
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Latest Project
I've been working on a new quilt lately - for some time really. It's going to be a mini quilt - probably a wall hanging. I'd like to share some pictures with you but I'm not going to tell all about...
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Modern Quilting
Modern Quilting - the new quilting movement.I've read a lot of magazine articles, blog posts, etc. lately about modern quilting and all the different types of modern quilting. There is much debate...
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Modern Mini Quilt Challenge at Ellison Lane Quilts
Ellison Lane, which is one of my favorite quilting blogs to follow, is having a modern mini quilt challenge. Today is the last day to sign up. I've been sewing my little fingers raw trying to get my...
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Feature at My Polka Dotted Bliss
Kim at My Polka Dotted Bliss was nice enough to ask me to write about my sewing space for her blog. She does a post on Saturdays called "Saturday Spaces".My feature is up right now and there are lots...
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Card Trick Quilt Block Tutorial
As I've mentioned in previous posts, my local quilt shop (A Nimble Thimble) has a once a month event called Saturday Sampler. Part of the event is participating in the BOM that the quilt shop is...
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Heart and Soul Quilt
I have a fabulous quilt finish today. It's one I've been working on for several weeks and finally finished a few days ago.I'm calling it my Heart and Soul quilt.One day while perusing my facebook...
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Mixing Up Quilt blocks
During one of my recent quilting classes, our teacher challenged us to see what other blocks we could make with the pieces of the blocks we were working on for class. I accepted the challenge :)So,...
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Summer Vacation
Well, I've spent the last 3 weeks either preparing for vacation, going on vacation, or recovering from vacation. Isn't that always how it is?This year we took a cruise to the Eastern Caribbean. We...
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Ellison Lane Modern Mini Quilt Challenge Win
You may remember the mini quilt that I entered in the Modern Mini Quilt Challenge over at Ellison Lane Quilts back in June. The grand prize winner (which was a really cool city scape) was chosen by...
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Back to School Sale at Handmade Whimzy!
Since I missed the EtsyMom Team Christmas in July sale, I thought I'd have my own sale just in time for back to school!Sale starts now and will go through Sunday, August 4th.You can take 15% off all...
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My Sewing Room
Kimberly at Polka Dotted Bliss was kind enough to ask me to share my sewing space with her readers a few weeks ago. I thought I'd repost it here on my blog for anyone who missed it over at Kim's blog....
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Fabric Tuesday
The nice mail lady brought me some new fabric last week. I got it all on sale from fabric.com. Some of the new hipster line from Riley Blake. I Love this fabric. I could only get 2 so I had to do...
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A Zipper Pouch for Martha
I have a sweet, special friend who is one of the nicest people I have ever met. I had a lunch planned with her recently and I wanted to surprise her with a little gift. I decided to make her a...
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