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Alphabitty Organizer Tutorial
You will need: 7 – 2″ x 10.5″ rectangles fabric 6 – 1″ x 11″ rectangles vinyl 1 – 11″ x 11″ square backing 1 – 11″ x 11″ square batting 1 – 2″ x WOF binding 1″ painters tape Take two strips fabric and one strip vinyl and align the edges and clip edges to keep them together. Press open using a wooden iron Add to the bottom strip another piece of vinyl and another strip of fabric, clipping to keep together. Continue to add strips until you have used all 6 strips of vinyl. Sandwich the top, batting, and backing. Clip one edge to ensure the sandwich does…
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Fireworks
This throwback Thursday I am showing one of my favorite quilts. It was completed May 2013. It started as a shop hop quilt. The premise was that you virtually visited 12 different shops yo purchase each quilt blocks. Each shop had their own finishing kit. I loved this one because it was unique. It was pieced with the help of Marti Michele templates. I used fusible thread to help with the applique. I machine quilted this on my domestic machine. Related Images:
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Summer Moon – Broken Dishes
When I signed up for Summer Moon, I will be honest, I loved the colors and knew it was a block of the month, but I was in a quilting slump that had been going on pretty much since we moved back to Texas 6 years ago. First it was school kept me busy for the first 2 1/2 years and then it was establishing myself in my new career. Then it was that I just didn’t have the will to go into the sewing room much. I still bought fabrics and kits, but nothing sang to my soul. Until I recieved the book and the first installment of fabrics.…
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Merry Mini Quilt Along
The Fat Quarter Shop is hosting a quilt along for the month of July. I have been seeing photos of the blocks all over and just had to join in. A new block is given each Tuesday for five weeks. This week block 3 was released. When I decided to join in, I tried to figure out the perfect fabric line to use. I purchased a couple of different fabric lines, but none really felt right for me. I found alayer cake in an older line of fabric from Sandy Gervais – Merry Medly in my stash. I also decided to use the creams in the layer cake as backgrounds…
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Strawberry Jam
The June 2019 Fat Quarter Shop’s Sew Sampler had a cute charm pack of fabric from Corey Yoder and a two bonus patterns from the book Sunday Best Quilts by Corey Yoder and Sherri L. McConnell. Instead of a pillow, I decided to make a small wall hanging. For the setting triangles and border For one of the pillows, I saw that there was going to be leftover strips, so I did some math and figured I could get 4 of the same sized strips from one charm square. I also figured that I could make 56 blocks with the strips. This setting only needed 50. I like pieced backs…