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This was a quilt panel from Project Linus...someone was entirely too creative with this one. :) I added the prairie points and did a lot of background quilting, but it was more for fun that for talent. :) Sometimes, simple pleasures are the best.
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Hexies....lots and lots and lots. All colors, mostly batiks for the flowers, leftover neutrals for the centers and separating rows. All hand sewn, including the process of appliquing the flowers to the first border. The baskets on the corners were left over from a quilt done long ago, so I just repurposed them with some new borders. The reason this
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This is a repeat of the same star block, just by using different corner pieces, they look totally different. Of course, it is me, so it is still scrappy. :) The small sashings bring your eyes out so that it looks like one star is framed in the middle of a bunch of x's. I just thought that was the appeal to this pattern...starting with one thing
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My last two weekends have been consumed with the finishing kit for this quilt, including some applique along the edges. My sewing machine did not play well with the blanket stitch on these appliques, so I ended up unsewing them and doing them all by hand. I will really need to watch the quilting process to make certain that flowers and leaves get permenantly
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This quilt is called "Hanging Gardens" and was designed by Georgette Dell'Orco of Cozy Quilt Designs. It is meant for 2 1/2 inch strips. I ran across a 30 strip 5 x 22 bundle of cuts from a quilt show I had attended a couple of years ago and thought it was time to put them to use. This is a twin size quilt, as I only had a potential of
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I cannot bear to throw away those strings: the cuts left at the end of the fabric that are less than 2 inches wide down to 1/2 inch wide. I sew them to 7 inch mujslin backs and then trim to 6.5 inch squares. This quilt top is 84 x 84. That is a lot of strings!
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I do most of my piecing on a 1949 Singer Featherweight I got on ebay. The reason is machine maintenance. I can easily access what I need to oil or grease and I can easily take care of any lint that accumulates around the bobbin or the feed dogs. It is all accessible and I can do it myself. I have dealt with enough of the used car salesman "well
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I made a quilt that had a huge insertion of biased edge where they recommended using a stabilizer for that piece. It was suggested also that you just use a very strong starch to lessen the danger of stretching the bias. I used neither, but also did not allow the weight of the quilt to pull the bias edge while I was putting the pieces together. I had
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I use mine when I can find it....that sometimes is impossible. I have been known to use a small quilting ruler and just laying the 1/4 inch mark on the outer points and drawing the line. Just as easy and no need to hunt for that clear tool.
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I did mention that I love this design, right? This was made with 8 inch finished stars, which I thought afterward were entirely too small (meaning, I didn't feel like making 50 of them to make a queen sized quilt). I put a 3 inch border of the background fabric around each star and set them on point to make them appear larger. :) Necessity is the