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This is an original design. It is old fashioned toys for boys in a crib sized quilt. 100% cotton fabric and wadding. Hand appliqued and machine pieced with free motion quilting on a home machine. Pattern is available at crafsty.com
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This is my own design of the Wisteria growing in my garden in Spring. It's turning into a series of quilts, but I love designing with flowers. I made this into a pattern and its on the Craftsy site.
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This quilt is inspired by my husband's garden. I love the way the roses take over and even try escaping over the back fence. It's hand appliqued and machine free-motion quilted.100% cotton fabrics and batting. Various colours of stranded thread for the applique and various polyester thread for the quilting.
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I wanted to make a christmas runner for the table on the verandah as we are having a BBQ for Christmas.I found the Christmas tree printed fabric and could see the possibilities as applique. I also love santa and have many, many santas around the house at Christmas. I modified the santa for applique from an old christmas present tag and simply quilted
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I found this printed panel in my travels and hand embroidered the lettering on and off over some time. The wadding is bamboo, very soft and a dream to quilt. I used DMC stranded embroidery threads for the lettering and polyester thread for the quilting.
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This quilt is from the Quiltmaker collection pattern "12 Days of Christmas". Its a wall quilt that finishes at 48" x 511/2". 100% cotton fabric and wadding. All the fabric from my stash except the dark green spotted border and sashing.
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I collected all the fabrics in this quilt's background while travelling through the east coast of USA not knowing that they would become a brick wall. I made the brick wall thinking to put graffiti on it, something wild and urban, but I saw my wisteria flowering on my verandah and wisteria wall it became. Sometimes i think quilts make themselves
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This quilt is from the book Quilts to make for children by Margaret Rolfe. A friend at work asked me for a quilt for a family member who was expecting a girl soon. This quilt came to mind and she loved it. Consequently Amelia's Teddies now have a new home.
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My daughter organises a cupcake day each year for Telethon, our local children's hospital fundraiser. Volunteer bakers donate their cupcakes and time and all proceeds of their sale goes to Telethon. I can't bake so I am making these sets for her. They are from a web bonus pattern in Quilt magazine Oct/Nov 2012.
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My grandson Joshua loves games. I was planning on a birthday quilt that was about cars and trucks 'cause he loves those but his sister said it had to be something brighter! he loves to play all the "old" games like ludo and chinese checkers and snakes and ladders. it was a no brainer really. Snakes and ladders is it. The hardest part was