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Hey Ashley! I'm in Oliver Springs (just outside of Oak Ridge). My long-arm quilter is Diana Lacy of Lacy Quilting Service. She's in West Knoxville. Email her at diana@ivdc.com . You can also check out Carolyn at Mid-South Sewing in West Knox on Kingston Pike. Both women are extremely reasonable on their pricing, do excellent work, and are personal
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Here's a closeup of the corner to get a better feel for the colors of the fabrics.
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Each square holds the handprints of one of my mom's 12 grandchildren. The quilt was modified from a traditional 12 block to include appliqued hands and embroidered names. This is just the top. It goes off to the long arm quilter on Monday.
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Well it's certainly been a WHILE since I posted here (August, maybe?) I've just finished the top of my mother's Christmas present and will be sending it off to my first-ever long arm quilter to complete on Monday. Note: each of the hands belong to one of my mother's grandchildren (who live in Connecticut, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia
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Maggie, I know what you mean. The camo fabric was originally $10/yd. Since I got 8yds, I saved $40 on that alone! Aaaaand - I can do one even better! That same store I purchased the sheets (King sized, 100% cotton, $11.00) - had a whole bunch of pillowcases for $.19 ea. It's a local store to East Tennessee/Knoxville area and they always have some
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Well, it wasn't a quilt, but I was hard at work yesterday behind the sewing machine! I had some GREAT coupons to Joann's (50% off any regularly priced item, 2x 40% off, 25% off entire purchase). My 11 year old son has been BEGGING me to make him a sheet set. Coupled with the cute curtains Donna Bablyon made on It's Sew Easy (PBS) yesterday
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted my 11 year old daughter's Juliet bag. I finally got around to finishing mine. Woohoo! Took about 6 hours from cutting the fabric to the final seam. Did it all today. So easy and fun!
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Here's the one I made. Took about 6 hours from cutting the fabric to sewing the last seam. Very easy and a lot of fun!
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This is the Juliet bag my 11 year old daughter made. Picked out the colors and everything!
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A couple of months ago, someone on this board (I believe it was Nana?) posted her picture of a Juliet bag. I loved it so much, I bought a pattern, but have had too many projects going to work on it. Well, last weekend, my daughter and I FINALLY got to sit down and get some quality sewing done, together. It was so easy! It probably would have only taken