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I’ve been visiting this book  — Traditional British Quilts by Dorothy Osler — at my public library about once a month for the past two years.  It’s in the reference section, so I couldn’t check it out and take it home with me.  It was also published in 1987, and it’s been out of print [...]

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Next up, Scrappy Trips Around the World, using Bonnie K. Hunter’s free pattern on her website. Sometimes I see a quilt pattern first and then visualise it in my own fabrics.  This time, we found a wonderful fabric first.  I bought this cute snake fabric because my little girl liked it so much.  And when I [...]

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I’ve made good progress on the blue and yellow Crossed Canoes project this month.  All the quarter blocks are finished (168 of them!), which will yield 42 – 12-inch blocks.  They are going to be set 6 x 7, and the finished quilt will measure approximately 72 inches by 84 inches.  It’s not going to [...]

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Lately I’ve been sewing only in my sewing room on my two favourite electric machines  — Marie, the Janome 6500P, and Peggy, the Singer 201K from 1951. Today however, my 10-year-old asked me if I would sew in the living room so I could watch Dr. Who DVDs with her.  How could I resist a [...]

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Amy, of Amy’s Passions blogsite! You can see her beautiful finished quilt here, along with a step-by-step account of how she did the challenge, and a lovely story about the quilt’s ultimate destination as a retirement gift for her friend.  Well done, Amy!    You will receive the top prize of a £15 gift certificate. [...]

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It’s time to wrap-up our “Too Good to Cut” Challenge. Has everyone finished their quilts?  Please don’t feel guilty if you haven’t because I haven’t finished my quilt, either. If you followed the original guidelines posted last January and would like to be entered in the prize draw on January 1, 2011, please leave a [...]

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For Judy’s Quiltathon this week, I’m working on a UFO project of 4-inch squares in cheerful sunflower prints.   I can’t remember what these squares were for, but they’re cute. Today I have sewn them into 4-patch blocks and arranged them in sewing order on my design wall. This is going to be a small quilt, [...]

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Bonnie Hunter wrote in her “Scrap User’s System” article that our scraps are worth just as much as new yardage from the quilt shop.  For me in England, that’s £9.60 per metre, or approximately $14.25 per yard in US dollars.  That’s way too much value to toss into the waste basket, and it really gave [...]

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Good progress this week on my pink and green Summer Holiday Quilt!  I’ve made all 48 quarter blocks and have started assembling the large blocks.  Five big blocks are now finished. My design wall is only tiny, so I have to lay out larger projects on my “design floor.”  And of course, Nigel the quilting [...]

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We had a fantastic holiday in Northumberland.  We went to the beach, explored castles and took long walks every day. I took my Featherweight (Singer 221K) with me for a little relaxation sewing in the evenings, along with a box of pink and green strings that I’ve been saving for a travel project. I like [...]

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