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About six months ago, I saw a gorgeous sample quilt at my LQS. I don’t normally find kits interesting, but this time I was so<\/i> tempted by that beautiful sample! To add to the temptation, I had a gift certificate burning a hole in my pocket, so I bought the kit and put it away until I’d finished a few of my other projects. We’ve all “stockpiled” projects, right? \ud83d\ude09 In case you like what you see, the pattern<\/a> was designed by June Pease, and the Sakura fabrics are by Red Rooster<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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Machine appliqu\u00e9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Yesterday I decided it was time, so I began cutting all of the fabrics according to the instructions. After doing the cutting, the first step was to appliqu\u00e9 some circular pieces to a background, and so I’ve actually begun the stitching! Yay! I did the appliqu\u00e9 by machine, and I was so <\/i>glad to have the magnifying lenses to attach in front of the needle, since seeing smoke-colored “invisible” thread on a black background is enough to give anyone a major headache otherwise. <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Appliqu\u00e9ed blocks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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These four blocks are the only ones that really need any special attention; everything else will be a matter of simply putting various cut pieces together to frame the central panel. But here are those blocks, all ready to add to the rest when I get to that point. \ud83d\ude42 <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gorgeous fabrics About six months ago, I saw a gorgeous sample quilt at my LQS. I don’t normally find kits interesting, but this time I was so tempted by that beautiful sample! To add to the temptation, I had a gift certificate burning a hole in my pocket, so I bought the kit and put it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[299],"tags":[215,236,217,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-1392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-applique-2","9":"tag-fabric","10":"tag-piecing-2","11":"tag-sakura","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0164.jpg?fit=478%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-ms","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1381,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/machine-quilting-sakura-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":1392,"position":0},"title":"Machine quilting \u2014 Sakura update","author":"Sandy","date":"August 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Can you see what I'm doing here? 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