More to Drool Over + Remember the Giveaway

If you are an avid blogger, you’ll know that this is old news.  But, if you only drop by once in a while I may be presenting you with a new discovery.  As of this last Sunday, Kim McLean (of Australian quilting fame)  made available her latest pattern release, Roseville Album.  I’m sure you’ll agree [...]

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Final Trip Giveaway

With only nine days remaining for the V&A Quilt Exhibit (www.vanda.ac.uk), it’s too late to encourage you all to purchase a plane ticket and hop the pond to see the show.  Instead, I’m going to commemorate the exhibit by offering one more little gift from my trip to giveaway to my loyal readers.    Up for grabs is one of [...]

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The Most Important Tool

I’ve have finally figured out what the single most important tool is for an appliquist.  Glue baste you say?  Freezer paper?  Magnifiers.  Nope, although the last item is pretty important.  No, I’ve finally recognized that hands that work well are an appliquer’s most important asset (and I include working thumbs with that). As my hands [...]

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Barbara Chainey

Speaking about hand quilting, I recently received an email from Barbara Chainey…hand quilter extraordinaire.  Barbara comes from that great UK tradition of making quilts where the quilting is an equal (or even more important) design component to the piecing.  She’s got this great blog (/barbarachaineyquilts.wordpress.com) where she shows her recent work…along with American and British quilts [...]

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Warm Weather Stitching

It was the first real hot weekend of the year this past Saturday and Sunday.  And, what better to work on when it’s about 95 degrees in your house….something with wool in it.  Well, probably not but at least the project was small.  Back in May, when the temperature with a bit milder, I purchased a small [...]

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Start Saving your Pennies

My friend Keiko is a quilt designer and went to Spring Quilt Market last month and brought back some wonderful fabrics for us all to drool over.  In particular is the upcoming French General line called Maison de Garance by Moda Fabrics. Kaari Meng (www.frenchgeneral.com) has designed another great group of French-inspired fabrics for us using the [...]

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Baltimore Quilt Pattern Alert

I was surfing last night and came across a press release from some time ago announcing a new pattern release to be sold exclusively at Winterthur.  They described it as a kit for $60…so, that certainly got my curiosity up.  How could they possibly sell a quilt kit that included fabric and pattern for $60.00. [...]

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Penny Tries to Hand Quilt

  Where does the time go????  Gosh, I’m just rolling along blogging away and then – poof – life gets in the way of my pearls of wisdom.  Well, I’m going to try to catch you up the stuff that is worth writing about.  With my leaving for England this past March, I was in [...]

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