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March 17, 2020 How to Make a Pillow•quilted pillows•sewing finishes•tutorials•video tutorial

How to Turn a Quilt Block into a Pillow – Zig Zag Seam

  Hey lovelies!  We are talking about turning blocks into pillows today.  I’ve got directions and a video below,...
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November 12, 2019 How to: Binding•sewing finishes•Sponsored Posts•Techniques + Tutorials•video tutorial

Gratitude + Something Gold + Video Tutorial for Chunky Stitch Binding

  So many things to say today.  It’s November and November is a month for giving gratitude.  I have so many reasons to be thankful, family, friends, health and home, health of my loved ones.  I could list these bits all day long, but this is a quilting blog and I try hard not to get off topic and ramble.  You are here for quilting, I know.  But I wanted to say that I am thankful for you just showing up here.  I’m grateful that this business has been supporting me and my family for years and I have...

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September 27, 2019 applique quilt•sewing finishes•Sponsored Posts

A New Dresden Quilt Runner with Michael Miller fabrics – Sewing Finish

  I’ve been an ambassador for Michael Miller fabrics since early this year and they have been sending me the yummiest of fabrics to play with, but these lovelies that arrived just a few weeks ago really had me swooning. I don’t get to make many things besides quilts, I’m obsessively focused, you see, but I’m always so thrilled when I do take the time to make a little something.  They are smaller so you can give them more umph without it taking up all of your time. One thing I don’t have much of around my house is...

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July 11, 2019 quilted pillows•sewing finishes

Christmas in July Quilted Pillows with Piping

  I have always wanted to decorate with handmade decorations come Christmastime, but just can never find the time to get anything done in the month of December.  So when Susan over at Michael Miller asked if I’d write a Christmas in July post I was all in. Thinking of Christmas in July would be something the opposite of me would do.  I only consider Christmas in December.  I don’t plan.  I don’t buy gifts early.  I do all last minute, except for maybe food.  🙂   The Next Quilt Along starts this September!     The Poinsettia print...

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April 19, 2019 how to: quilt patterns•sewing finishes

Another Easy Machine Cover – This time for the Juki

    Peeps!  I am so dying over these machine covers.  So many years without one and now I have two of them!  One for each of the machines.  Absolutely thrilled!   Custom Quilt Labels     You might remember last week’s post with the free pattern for the machine cover, well, I used the same pattern to make this one.  I just changed the panels up.  This is the machine cover I worked up with the sew along from here.  While everyone else was making that cute caravan, I was doing this.  I did end up having to...

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April 11, 2019 Free Quilt Patterns•how to: quilt patterns•sewing finishes

Easy Sewing Machine Cover + Free Pattern

  I made myself a machine cover!  This is something I’ve wanted since I first got my machine.  So what was that like 11 years ago?  Oh, geez.  How we let time slide away!  Enough of that!  Let’s dive into all of this, because I’ve written a pattern and had it tested and voila…..  I’ve got a free PDF pattern for you to make one as well. I’m so excited!   Get a personalized quilt label for your quilt.       Michael Miller sent me some fabrics to play with from one of their new lines called Nature...

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October 10, 2018 embroidery•Hand Craft•hand sewing•quilted pillows•sewing finishes•Sponsored Posts

Coats and Clark Embroidery Panels + My Cacti Embroidery Pillow (a tutorial)

Hello, my darling Readers! Today’s post is a sponsored post by Coats and Clark.  I’m sure you remember me working with Coats and Clark before when we did the Star Dance Quilt Along back in August.  By the way, I’m still quilting almost exclusively with their Quilt+ thread.  It’s just so thick and luscious. Well, they saw that I also enjoyed embroidery from this post and asked if they could send me some of their brand new embroidery panels that they teamed up with Natalie Malan to make.  And since I had no embroidery projects going at the moment...

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September 19, 2018 creativebug classes•embroidery•Hand Craft•hand sewing•how to: thoughts•quilted pillows•sewing finishes

Why I LOVE embroidery – Signature fabrics Embroidery Pillow – ( sewing finish )

Last week I completed my most favorite pillow ever.  I’m calling it my favorite because of the most perfect to me fabrics I used and the most time consuming embroidery work I’ve ever done.  I carried the embroidery part around for a month stabbing at it with my needle over and over and over again. Today I wanted to share why I so love embroidery and what it means to me.     Where I learned to embroider I learned how to embroidery in a Creativebug class.  This one here.  I was addicted from the very start, but even...

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October 3, 2017 applique•Dresden quilts•sewing finishes

Sprucing Up – Boho inspired Dresden pillow (sewing finishes)

My niece asked for bows and I started making them.  They are no-sew and just need a hot glue gun (I used this tutorial).  I liked them so much I made some for myself.  Not really to wear, but maybe. Then I got into my crochet lace stash, and after that I made the little flower blooms (tutorial here) and stuck them on brooch pins.  I started this project right after this one, so I was coming off a Dresden plate high and didn’t want the Dresdens to end. All of this led to this bohemian inspired idea of...

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