……drumroll, please! Darlene Thompson! Darlene, you are the lucky winner of 5 – 1/2 yard cuts of Dream Basic cotton fabrics in the colors I used to make my star block! Please email me, Darlene, and send me your mailing address so I can get those sent
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I love finding new products that are REALLY useful. These SEAM-FIX seam rippers are one of those products! The actual point and blade are very sharp, and the nifty rubber tip makes quick work of all those pesky thread schniblets left behind in the fabric. I have
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I LOVE September! And this year, I love September even more than usual! There are lots of great things happening and I can hardly wait to share them with you. The biggest news is that I am very excited and honored to be the Aurifil Designer of
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It’s late summer. Autumn is right around the corner. School is back (or almost back) in session. Sometimes, you just want to sew. Something fun and easy With no seams to match And nothing to coordinate. Mindless sewing, actually. This is it. Bricks If you want the
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I’m just so thrilled about the wonderful review on SewCalGal’s blog of my online Craftsy class, Chain of Stars Mystery Quilt! Click here to read it. Wow, thank you Darlene. I’m sew honored!
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But the good news is, it is fixed now! If you’ve been trying to order books or rulers from my website during the past several days, you probably encountered an error. But rest assured the problem has been fixed and the website is ready and waiting to
Read more →Lynette Key wrote to me recently and she was so sweet to send me a picture of her finished quilt from the Perfect Pinless Pinwheels class I taught at AQS QuiltWeek in Paducah this past April: I just love her modern version and the asymmetrical border treatment.
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……at the sight of these! Perfectly trimmed blocks ready to be sewn into a beautiful new quilt! It is always worth it to take the time to square-up your blocks. In this case, all 42 of them. Do you true-up your blocks before sewing them into a
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2013 AQS Judges for the AQS Quilt Contest, Paducah Kimberly Einmo, Libby Lehman, and Velda Newman I had the great privilege of judging the AQS Quilt Contest in Paducah this year. What an honor it was! I judged the show with Libby Lehman and Velda Newman. It
Read more →Marcy Cady, one of my amazing students who took my Chain Saw class at the Road to California Show this past January, sent me this photo of her completed quilt. It is beautiful and I LOVE it! Marcy, I’m so proud of you — you did an outstanding job!!!
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