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June 8, 2010
The Never-ending Cycle
Have you ever noticed how things seem to come in waves? It’s been that way at work and with friends lately. There must be something in the water here in Georgia…
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June 1, 2010
QUILT Magazine Asks…
Two weeks before Christmas we were asked (out of the blue) if we would do a book. It was to be a book of Christmas projects, oh, 10 or 12. Well that didn’t sound too bad, so, of course, we said, “Yes!” We definitely thought of it as an adventure at that point…
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May 17, 2010
QUILT Magazine Asks…
What has been your most recent quilting “adventure”, “challenge” or “idea”? Share with us and all the Quilt readers your story today! … “A few years ago, when I began designing fabrics with Maywood Studio, we introduced my original concept…
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May 12, 2010
QUILT Magazine Asks…
What has been your most recent quilting “adventure”, “challenge” or “idea”? Share your story today! …”I was just making mitered borders and it seems that the 4th miter ALWAYS wants to misbehave. Maybe it’s like the horse that smells water and heads for the barn…”
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May 6, 2010
Quilt ‘Sweat Shop’
Twice each year my sewing room becomes a ’sweat shop’ of sorts as we work through a number of new quilts. It’s all in preparation for Quilt Market — in the Spring and the Fall each year. The timing is always tight.
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March 23, 2010
What can be accomplished in a 3-day weekend?
My friend Kathy visited recently, a partially assembled quilt in her suitcase. Seven years ago, I helped Kathy make her first quilt, a wedding present for her sister. After that, she sewed a few more and then got sidetracked from quilting by buying a house, tearing it down to the studs, and renovating it. But [...]
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January 15, 2010
Congratulations to a New Quilter!
I’m proud to say that my mother-in-law, Alice Ruble has joined the ranks of the quilting world. She begs to differ, saying that one quilt does not a quilter make, but as far as I’m concerned, anyone who has made a quilt is officially a quilter.
As Alice has followed the quilting magazines I’ve worked for [...]
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December 21, 2009
Merry Christmas Quilting Friends!
As a family tradition, every year our family of six would go to a tree farm to find the perfect Christmas tree. When walking around the farm, we would mark several tree tops with our wool caps and then we would take a family vote before cutting down a tree…
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December 20, 2009
Memories of a First Quilt
I’ve learned a lot in the years since my first quilt, and I know I still have a lot to learn. Even though the binding is coming lose and I probably should have quilted it more than I did, it’s still one of my favorite quilts, perfect for an evening read!
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November 16, 2009
QUILT Loves the Outer Banks!
There’s nothing like the beach as a great background for photos! Joined by our photographer, Kelli, our stylist, Sera, and Jenn, the styling assistant, we spent four beautiful days at hard at work.
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November 4, 2009
The Holiday Crunch is On!
The holidays are around the corner and many long arm quilters are chained to their machines cranking out holiday quilts for their customers. I’m one of them.
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October 7, 2009
Calling all Guilds…
I always love to know what my readers are doing and so it was a very pleasant surprise to learn about the ladies of the Country Piecemakers Quilt Guild in Powhatan, VA. Being inspired by a Aug/Sept 2007 Quilting Friends article regarding a Paint Can Challenge in a NY Guild, the ladies of the VA [...]
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October 6, 2009
This Little Piggy Goes to Market
”This little piggy goes to Market, this little piggy stays home…” When I say this toe-wiggling rhyme to my 7-month-old son, he doesn’t realize that next week I really am going to market…Quilt Market, that is!
Next weekend is the fabric industry show in Houston: Fall International Quilt Market. It’s where all the fabric companies, pattern [...]
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September 30, 2009
A Personal Look
Being the editor of QUILT Magazine often allows me a personal look inside people’s lives. I met Leigh Headington at a quilt show while admiring a flag quilt design in their quilt booth. Several months later Leigh and her two sisters, the Sweet Tea Girls, created a new version of the flag quilt for the [...]
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August 14, 2009
Technology - Get a kid!
As we clean out our attic, I am making some discoveries. I found my dad’s first computer that he bought back in 1990. I remember going to his house and spending hours on the thing just “surfing” and boy, did I think I was pretty slick that I could do an email!!! The monitor was [...]
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August 12, 2009
A Lesson in Humility
I spent some time this past weekend trying to assemble a quilt that’s been in the making for at least three years, if not four. The queen-size quilt uses a big block design to showcase a variety of half-yard cuts of Kaffe Fassett fabric I impulsively purchased at Quilt Festival a while back. I loved [...]
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Quick Quilts#117 - Tea Time! Pumpkin Cozy
Click “Download PDF” to obtain a printable copy of instructions.
To order a kit for this pumpkin tea cozy contact Thimble Cottage Quilt Village at (800) 845-9331 or visit www.thimblecottage.com. The kit (including fabrics, batting, embroidery floss and jute) is available for $18.95. (SD residents add 4% sales tax.)