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Desperately needed something bright for a long winter and pink and orange hit the spot. My first ever quilted top (rather than tied). It has its problems, but a great learning experience. Half square triangles were fun to revisit after several years.
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The cool color scraps were too much to store...so I made them go away along with a bit of my own life blues. I adore strings and paper piecing. This took two weekends from first square to quilted and bound. My $ job didn't get in the way, either.
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Fabrics too pretty to cut up into small bits.
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Random blocks from blogs I stumble across. It started as a pillow, then two pillows...then became a nine rectangle block quilt.
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Some that saw this said it looked like Aluminium Foil, so that is as good a name as any. I was inspired to create this from things shared from: Film In The Fridge! Love her work. http://www.filminthefridge.com/ But the real inspiration was this was my first 'pieced on paper" quilt since my first one - at age 8. I made that one with my grandmother
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My adaptation of Elisa Wilson's quilt featured in a Hoffman ad from last year. I thought it would be easy like a log cabin using strips, but noooo, the directional strips tried to get all wonky on me. But it did satisfy my desire to work with browns. I played with different household items for dying fabric last year. The quilt still smells a bit
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Started summer 2011, finished summer 2012. My dear friend and neighbor Mary shares a new piecing method she calls 4-patch posie. Then, knowing I don't have a walking foot and don't even try to quilt - tells me about 'quilt as you go'! What a change in my sewing she shared that day. I love you Mary! I really couldn't afford to buy
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1989. I had no idea what I was doing. I was 26 years old. I had pieced on a paper with my grandmother 14 years ago. I had survived Home Ec at age 13, actually wearing the dress I created without disaster. But my amazing husband gave me a sewing machine for Christmas, sew... I wanted to use it. I didn't know fabric, I didn't know traditional
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Completed in Dec 2011, this kept me warm through my cheap a** winter of not turning on my heating. I had never done a 'rag' edge and I can't say its pretty like some ragged quilts I've seen. I didn't know to avoid stretchy denim yet I do know it now! But I love how fast this created itself from idea to finished.
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My 3rd quilt top - completed in 1990. Back in the day when I had a part time job, no child, a wonderful husband who cooked, and could afford to buy fabric on a whim. It has been used for the past 10 years as the cover for my office futon sofa. I need a quilting friend to quilt it or teach me how on my little Kenmore!