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Adventures on the way home from Quilt Canada – 2015.06.10

On June 2, I hopped into Janet‘s car, and we set out for Lethbridge Alberta to attend the annual Canadian Quilt show and conference – Quilt Canada.  We had a somewhat cloudy and rainy, but uneventful 2-day drive.  As we … Continue reading

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Workshop and other news – 2015.05.31

It’s been a busy couple of weeks since I last posted. On Sunday, I taught my Circles Circles Circles workshop for Vancouver MQG.   It was a technique workshop to design circle blocks, and to sew curves and circles with flat … Continue reading

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Workshop and trunk shows – 2015.03.11

Last Friday evening, I did a trunk show/presentation at the monthly meeting of the Blue Mountain Quilters Guild. On Saturday, I did a workshop for the guild on Freezer Paper Piecing.  I provided patterns – a choice of a fairly … Continue reading

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On my design wall – 2014.04.25

My circle quilt for the Modern Metallic quilt exhibit is progressing, with some changes. I decided I didn’t like the original dark center circle or the gold lame bias tape – I wanted a lighter center circle, and darker bias … Continue reading

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On my design wall – 2014.04.15

When I first heard about the Modern Metallic quilt exhibit, I didn’t think I had very many metallic fabrics, so I was happy to hear there was some free metallic fabric available from Robert Kaufman for participating MQG members – … Continue reading

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Friday finishes – 2014.03.07

This week I have two finishes to share. This my first entry for the Canadian Quilters‘ Trend-Tex Challenge.   It went together really quickly – on Monday I drew the pattern on freezer paper, cut the fabric and sewed it together; … Continue reading

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Workshop and trunk shows – 2014.02.17

On Wednesday, I did a trunk show at the monthly meeting of the Vancouver Quilters’ Guild.  On Saturday, I did a workshop for the guild on Freezer Paper Piecing. I provided patterns – a choice of a fairly simple Maple … Continue reading

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Monday afternoon finish – 2014.02.10

My entry for the Modern Quilt Guild Riley Blake Basics challenge is finished.  It’s 36 x 36 inches.  I added several other solids to the challenge fabrics. After drawing several sketches of circles, I settled on a design with 3 sections … Continue reading

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On my design wall – 2014.02.06

My Riley Blake quilt doesn’t look a lot different than it did last week, but the piecing is almost complete.   I’m linking up with these blogs for WiP Wednesday.  Click on the buttons below to see all the creative … Continue reading

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On my design wall – 2014.01.29

My entry for the VMQG/Modern Quilt Guild Riley Blake Basics challenge is progressing nicely.  I knew I wanted to do another circle quilt, using similar techniques that I used in this quilt.  After many sketches, I settled on this design. … Continue reading

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