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Sunday morning finish – 2013.12.08

I love this quilt!  I’ll definitely be making more quilts with circles and using these techniques.  It only took me a week to design it, sew it together and get it finished – and I love the result.   Here’s … Continue reading

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On my design wall – 2013.11.27

  Lots of progress on the Indigo Project quilt.  I stitched around the red fish, and stitched the water with a variegated blue thread.  In the sky I’ve done some wavy machine quilting, and some handing stitching.  I’ve fused and … Continue reading

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On my design wall – 2013.11.13

I was thinking about quilting this quilt with a serpentine stitch.  Thank goodness I tested the serpentine stitch on a leftover block, because I saw that it really didn’t work with the skinny lines – it made them look really … Continue reading

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On my design wall – 2013.11.06

I had a lot of fun designing this quilt.  I knew I wanted the background to be white at the top, then a couple of shades of gray, and black at the bottom, with small squares and narrow strips of the … Continue reading

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On my design wall – 2013.10.30

The portrait quilt is nearly finished.   Since I posted about it last week, I added features to  the third face, fused it all together, and quilted it.   Just the final touches to complete – quilting the border, binding, … Continue reading

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Off my design wall – a finished quilt – 2013.07.23

  I finished this quilt, and it’s ready to send to the La Conner Quilt Museum. My original intention was to piece this quilt as hexagons – blogged here.  That didn’t work so well, so I fused the hexagons instead … Continue reading

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On my design wall – 2013.07.17

I’m continuing to work on my optical illusion quilt.  I decided not to zigzag the edges.  Instead I’m sewing straight lines around the edges and through the middle of each section.  I’m not sure if you can see on the … Continue reading

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A change of direction, and a giveaway – 2013.07.15

I definitely bit off more than I could chew with machine piecing the half-hexagon quilt!  The piecing started off fine when I was doing the corner with mostly solid full hexagons.  But when I got to joining the pieced hexagons, … Continue reading

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On my design wall – 2013.07.10

I finished the custom portrait quilt, and it’s on the way to its new home.  I made lots of notes and took lots of photos of my process, and I will be posting some tutorials later this month, including a … Continue reading

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Quilting is a spectator sport!

The Fraser Valley Quilters Guild’s Biennial Quilt Show is being held in Langley BC this weekend.  The FVQG has 6 teams and they are each competing against a team from another guild.  Our team, the VMQG Mod Quilters, competed on … Continue reading

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