Quilting

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Storm at Sea news

My goodness! My little Storm at Sea miniature is getting around! I’m very flattered that it’s making an appearance on the John Flynn (really written by Brooke Flynn ) blog. Look here. 🙂

Yes, I know I missed the season, but this piece will be ready for next fall. 😉 This is wool appliqué, all done by hand, and I began making this while in Phoenix last month. Most of the fabrics were from a kit, and the thread is Valdani perle cotton […]

A finish and an “almost”

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At last month’s meeting of the local group I attend we made table runners. I finished the top of mine, decided just how I wanted to quilt it, and then left town. Do you think I can remember now what my plan was? Of course not! :S The runner is […]

Fun today

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The local quilt group I attend had a meeting today, and we began making a table runner. It was lots of fun to see how the colors each of us chose made the same pattern look so different. I found a focus fabric and the other necessary colors in my […]

Storm at Sea

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Last night I finished my little Storm at Sea miniature — quilted, bound and labeled. 🙂 It was a fun little project to do, and John Flynn’s laser-cut kits are definitely very precise and easy to piece. This one ended up being 21″ wide by 23.5″ long after I’d added […]

Back to quilting!

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Today I added borders to my miniature Storm at Sea. I chose purple for the inner border to give good contrast and teal for the outer border to tie into some of the other colors in the top. Now it measures about 21″ x 24″. The next step, of course, […]