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Welcome back quilty friends. Our 4th and final GIFT WEEK 2023 post is here! I hope you’re inspired by Susan’s guest blog posts over the last 2 weeks. I know I sure am! Every year I save all kinds of ornament ideas and then I usually run out of time to make many of them. But this year I am totally inspired, aren’t you? In addition to today’s ornaments… we are having a special ORNAMENT YOUTUBE TUTORIAL on Saturday so come on back on Saturday morning to see me live and…
Welcome back! Are you ready to sew along with us on the log cabin quilt from the February 2024 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting?! If you missed our introductory blog post, be sure to view that HERE. Here are all the details… SEW ALONG SCHEDULE As always, you can sew at your own pace. We do better when we have goals set for each week, so we broke the quilt up into manageable sections. On each of the dates listed below, we will have a coordinating blog post outlining the task(s) for the week, hints/tips, photos…
Hello everyone! I have something new and exciting to share with you all. I am honored to share with you that I will have a special feature with AMERICAN PATCHWORK & QUILTING this coming year and I wanted you to know all about it. I hope you follow along with this conversation and our journey this year… APQ FEATURE INFO In this new APQ feature, called “Designer Challenge: A Conversation on Modern and Traditional Quilting,” I am inviting an industry designer friend to join me as we chat about traditional and modern interpretations of quilting. In each of…
GIFT WEEK 2023: SEWING NOTIONS
Welcome back to Part 3 of our 2023 GIFT WEEK. Today the goodness continues with the ever-amazing Susan [@thefeltedpear] and the topic this week is “Sewing Notion Gifts”. FROM SUSAN Welcome back to our third day of Gift Week. I hope you have enjoyed Day 1: All Things Kitchen and Day 2: Desktop Accessories, and have been inspired to make a few handmade gifts of your own. Be sure to let us know in the comments if you have made any of our projects or have any other tired and true handmade gifts! Today, I am sharing…
NEW PATTERN SHEET: CANDY CANE & STAR GARLAND
During our annual 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS SALE, we offered a limited kit to create your own Christmas CANDY CANE & STAR GARLAND. The kits sold out quickly, and you guys loved it so much, so we wanted to offer the pattern sheet on its own so more of you could enjoy it for the upcoming holiday season! You can find it HERE. Grab some of your favorite striped fabric for the candy canes, and any fun coordinating seasonal prints to create your chunky stars! And what’s more…you can make these into a garland, a set…