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Existential Embroidery Time!
I had some free time and needed a break from quilts so decided to get a head start on making some Christmas ornaments to sell and give away. I finished a bunch of them yesterday, but Matt borrowed our...
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Hey, It’s Christmas Again!
Our coffee press broke a few days ago (I know, tragic!) so I went to Tar-jay, and what to my wondering eyes did appear? A bin full of Hannukah stocking caps (or toboggans, as Matt calls them). It’s...
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Animal Jamboree!
This is the pillow I was working on when I got in the newspaper. (and here is the pattern for the pillow). And some other pillows in my tree. Last winter I got really excited about making these bird...
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How to Transfer Your Handwriting to Fabric for Embroidery
I made a bunch of Christmas Ornaments, which are slowly but surely trickling out of my Etsy shop and onto Christmas trees across America. My interest for the last week has been sewing random things...
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Vegetable Star Quilt
I was fussy cutting up some veggie fabric from Ikea and all of a sudden (ok, hours upon hours later) I had this ginormous star quilt. It is with my favorite scrappy blues and greens, which have shown...
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It’s the Final Countdown…for Ornaments
You have one week left to order stuff on Etsy for your Christmas. So, you should! I was tickled to see my Christmas Family Vacations swear word ornaments were featured not once but TWICE in this...
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Sew Mama Sew! Contest
I’ve long admired the Sew Mama Sew website and enterprise – fabric, tutorials and a great community – and I think their name is super cute. They recently had a Valentines Day Tutorial contest and...
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Lotta Prizes!
I haven’t mentioned it yet here, but I was surpised and happy to see that my Rainbow Derecho quilt won the category for Bed Quilt in the Bloggers’ Quilt Festival. Yay! My prize was waiting for me from...
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Cherry Blossom Mini Quilt
Update: Here is the very simple Cherry Blossom Applique Quilt Pattern I didn’t love this quilt at first, but I quilted it and quilted it till I knew it was dead and wouldn’t run away. Plus it gave me...
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Disgruntled Christmas Embroidery
I love the holidays and family, but am not crazy about commercialism, and while I could frame it politically or from a feminist perspective, if I’m really being honest, I don’t like, basically, doing...
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Aurifil Embroidery Floss Review + A Baby Quilt
Over the years I have received 3 pretty little spools of Aurifloss 6 Strand Cotton Embroidery floss for free, through various quilting events. I finally got around to trying them out and decided they...
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Finished Woodlands Baby Quilt!
So, I started this quilt a month ago and then the internet erased my post. Dangit, internet. This is a new thing for wordpress to do to me, and I hope it never happens again! Ok, fingers crossed this...
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