Quilts As We Go
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Quilt Challenge
Well, this has been a great summer so far! Dora and I have been very busy lately. In the past few years we have joined 4 local quilt guilds and each one of them have some sort of a challenge to complete over the summer. The last couple of days ...
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Flower Power
Most everyone has at least one UFO, and the quilting group I belong to on West Island (Fairhaven, MA) is not immune to it. I get together with these wonderful women every Monday during the summer and we have tried to put together a quilt a year to be raffled ...
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Rental time special
I can't believe it has been this long since our last blog!! In our defense we have been very busy. Our Rental program for the Longarm is really taking off. We're running a summer special. Rent our machine for 5 hours and get the 6th hour free. So ...
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Peek At Craft Show
November 7, the date for the craft show at Mansfield High School is fast approaching and our creativity has been in overdrive! It is true to say that Mary Ann and I always have ideas floating around in our heads that have not yet made it into a quilt or ...
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Christmas is coming...
The time has come to start making Christmas items. This past weekend I spent time quilting two table runners, and designing some small wall hangings. It took a lot longer quilting the table runners than I expected. It was probably because I ended up doing alot more quilting on them ...
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Storm At Sea Quilt
The Storm At Sea quilt pattern has always been one of my favorites. I love the movement you see throughout the quilt as well as the different designs that can emerge by simply changing some of the dark and light fabrics. In fact I have designed several on EQ6, but ...
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We get to keep it?!
Sometimes you just want to make a quilt without so much thinking and planning; you want to create something now! Well, this was the case with my Batik Blast Quilt. After making several queen size quilts for cutomers, I wanted to sew, but something quick and easy, no preplanning, rearranging ...
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camera case
Dora and I are both very busy getting a few quilts finished up to go into the Silver City Quilt Guilds Quilt show in a couple of weeks. I don't have any pictures of my quilts yet but I do have a picture of a little camera case that ... ...read more -
New flannel baby quilt
...read moreJust finished quilting this flannel baby quilt. Unfortunately it took me a little longer than I had planned. The tension on the bobbin thread messed up for a couple of rows in the middle so I had to rip out, reload and quilt over again. Because I was using a ...
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Anniversary Quilt-Continued
Well, the borders are finally on this baby and were kept pretty simple, to balance out the quilt and give the eye a place to rest from all the photos. Can't wait to get it quilted and finished--neither can my husband!
Photo quilts, like this one really do tell ...
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Anniversary Quilt
As you go through life there are events that need to be marked and remembered by more than just a greeting card and my husband and I just reached one of those milestones. We celebrated our 30th anniversary in May. Being the avid quilter that I am, what else could ...
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