This cheery pillow is a free bonus project made from a block in Cindy Lammon’s new book Flower Pots. Get the pillow pattern at Hyacinth Quilt Designs. You can get the book at Connecting Threads.
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Free pattern: Windmill Wagga quilt
Here is one of the blocks in the wool quilt Windmill Wagga I just spied at Sewn blog.
See the entire quilt below. Lovely!
Visit Sarah’s Free Patterns page to download.
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Giveaway: Meadowsweet Pear and Peach
Exciting news this week at Portabellopixie blog. Sandi Henderson’s new fabric line Meadowsweet is coming out in November. And today there’s even better news, we get a chance to win some Meadowsweet fat quarters. Go here for details on … Read More ...
Free pattern using Holiday Magic fabric
This is not a quilt project however, the fabric in this free download certainly should be! It’s Holiday Magic by Studio efabrics. Original design by Dena Thompson. Check out some of the fabric below.
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Giveaway Roundup
Here are some of my favorite giveaways for this week:
- –Cathy at Pink Chalk Studio is giving away 24 Fig Tree patterns courtesy of Joanna from Fig Tree Quilts.
- –Judi of Green Fairy Quilts is giving away All Boxed
Free pattern: Housework Whenever!
This free pattern features the cute retro Housework Whenever! fabric line created by Sharon Yenter for In The Beginning fabrics. The quilt is an original design by Jason Yenter. Go here to download.
Via fabtalk
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Video tutorial: Folding a fat quarter
At Kootoyoo blog find out how to turn an 18′ x 22″ piece of fabric into a perfect square fat quarter. It even has pockets. This is not how I fold mine, but I’m going to try it the next … Read More ...
Another small fabric shop gone
This afternoon during a Sunday afternoon drive to Greenwood (population around 7000), I noticed this For Sale sign on what used to be a fabric store. I had visited there once and had admired the 1800s building that housed the … Read More ...
Tips: Pressing seams in quilting
An iron is an essential tool in producing quality quilts. The Tech Editors at C&T Publishing blog share how to correctly approach seams as you are piecing a quilt top.
- Press as you go
- Press instead of iron
- Set the
Meet Volksfaden the “people’s thread”
I have the best time browsing the Volksfaden Online shop not only because they carry great fabric, but for the artful way they display it. They use some of the fabric from within a category for the navigation button. Shown … Read More ...
Sun Bonnet Sue wields a knife
Dawn of Spring Water Designs blog posted some of her favorite quilts from the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza. This one made me laugh so hard – each block is a scene from a movie. Called Sun Bonnet Sue Does … Read More ...
Ta Dah!: Double stitched log cabin block
Kelli from And Then There’s Rustic blog shares her first finished log cabin block using a double stitch technique. I hope she will share the finished quilt with us. Go here to visit this post.
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BOM: Sweet Nostalgia free!
Thanks to alert blogger Quilter Going Bananas, I just downloaded my very first Block of the Month (BOM) called Summer’s Gone, from Dorothy Baker Designs blog. The embroidery motif of school children approaching their big yellow school bus captures … Read More ...
Flower Bed Threads left behind available
I found Flower Bed Threads at Pat Sloan’s Web Store. She had some preorders of this book that were not picked up, so is now offering them to her customers. My favorite project is the Long pillow. See closeup … Read More ...
Farmer’s Wife Sampler quilt BOM
This sampler quilt is from a new book The Farmer’s Wife: Letters from 1920s farm wives and the 111 blocks they inspired by Laurie Aaron Hird. If you join Homestead Hearth’s Farmer’s Wife Block of the Month (BOM) program you … Read More ...