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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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On my design wall – 2014.04.02

Lots of progress on the Skybridge quilt.  After three days of fairly intense work, all the units are constructed and ready to be fused to the background.  And I’m soooo happy with how it looks! I pinned the sky background … Continue reading

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On my design wall – 2014.03.19

Another circle quilt – this one is for the SAQA 2014 Auction.  Each SAQA member can submit one 12 x 12 inch art quilt.  The quilts are posted on the SAQA website, and auctioned off in September.  The funds are … Continue reading

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On my design wall – 2014.03.12

Here’s my second entry for the Canadian Quilters‘ Trend-Tex Challenge.   (You can see my first entry here.)  This one is an improv style, and as usual with this type of design, I didn’t really know what it was going to … Continue reading

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On my design wall – 2014.03.05

A few months ago, I sent away for a fabric kit for the Canadian Quilters‘ Trend-Tex Challenge.  Since then, I’ve been mulling over how to best use the fabrics.  I decided to continue with my current fascination with circles, and … Continue reading

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On my design wall – 2014.02.19

Today I’m trying out a couple of new techniques.  I made up a small sample piece about 5 x 8 inches. The first technique is a background made from small scraps, each less than 1″ square.  I fused some Misty … 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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On my design wall – 2014.01.22

My entry for this month’s Quilting Arts Magazine ‘In the Garden’ Reader Challenge is finished and has been submitted.  It was a lot of fun to recreate the effect of the sun and shadows on the clump of iris leaves, using … Continue reading

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On my design wall – 2014.01.15

For this month’s Quilting Arts Magazine ‘In the Garden’ Reader Challenge, I was initially thinking of a flower garden with bright colors – but I just wasn’t getting inspired. So I went to my image collection and found this photo I … Continue reading

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