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Archive for August, 2008

Well, I heard back yesterday on my sewing machine and it seems that the marriage is ending.  My sewing machine and I are not feeling the love any more and I need to trade it in for a newer model.  It seems that I am a user and abuser of my poor 16 year old machine and [...]

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Well, my sewing machine conked out on me – again.  So today on my way out to Bristol, VT, I will be stopping by Sew Many Treasures in Williston to see about getting it fixed.  If they can fix it, I will hold off on sending it out to Pfaff to be repaired until AFTER [...]

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On Friday night I finally got to start on my new jacket.  I took all of those yummy fat quarters and cut them into 1.5″ strips, then sewed them end to end.  Once that was done, I strip pieced them to batting that was cut to a McCalls jacket pattern.
Here’s a shot of all the strips:
 
And [...]

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While I was on vacation in Cape Cod last month, I went to the Bayberry Quilt Guild’s quilt show.  It was a much bigger event than I was expecting with much shopping to be had.  While I wasn’t too terribly impressed with the quality of the quilts, they had a ton of vendors!  Here is [...]

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I had a bit of good news today that I wanted to share here.  The manager of the Frog Hollow Gallery and I met today at the Burlington, VT location and had a nice chat about my quilts.  It seems that since the jurying last month, they have been looking forward to my call to [...]

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Today was spent trying to wrap up a lot of odds and ends – I finished quilting the last Nursery Rhyme baby quilt and quilted the first of the Rainbow Dinosaur baby quilts.  It was fairly quick to do up, so I think the remaining three could (possibly) get done up tomorrow.
Today also saw a [...]

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Sew That’s Where It Went!

Here is a shot of my new fishy friend in my sewing room.  I have decided that I will be decorating the room with only things that make me smile, and he definitely does that!  He may need more friends next time I visit the Lemon Tree Pottery in Brewster, MA, but my sewing supplies [...]

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Here it is, my newest quilt pattern, Crib Rails, based on the traditional quilt block, split rails.  It is my hope that you will enjoy making this pattern as it is fairly quick to do, and good for all skill levels.  This quilt is also available for sale on my website as the Safari Baby [...]

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Many interesting things happened on the way to… completing this bag.  Most resulted in the use of the seam ripper!  Ah, well.  I suppose in this case, when life gives you limes, you make limeade! 

As I finished putting together the squares for the body of the bag, I next ironed on some deco [...]

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While I was at the Vermont Quilt Festival, I found this really eye-popping raspberry silk fabric that I just had to have.  I needed to make a bag for my sister that was young, fresh and hip – and she loves the color pink.  Then I hit upon this great Timeless Treasures batik in shades of [...]

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