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Five Half-Square-Triangle Hills

Early in 2013 our little quilting group in my small town was inspired by Edyta Sitar’s book, “Friendship Triangles” to start a half-square-triangle exchange. Eventually, 10 participants exchanged 12 half-square triangles (hsts) once a month for six months resulting in … Continue reading

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“Storm at Seaweed” Completed

I changed the name of the quilt top in this post from May 2013. I decided to use a familiar quilting design sometimes called “Fern” quilting. On my Storm at Sea I decided to call this “Seaweed” quilting and thus … Continue reading

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Pineapples Your Way Class

I was lucky enough to teach a little workshop at Delphines Quilt Shop in Gaylord, Michigan, last week. Five people showed up and I was surprised to see three of them were from a quilt guild I belonged to when … Continue reading

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“My Sedona Star”

I did it, I finally did it. The “Sedona Star” from the TQS 2012 BOM is finally completed. It has been on my longarm quilting machine since May! A View of the Whole Quilt: The central star has nine points … Continue reading

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The Berenstain Bear Quilt

Did I ever tell you about the quilt I made for my then 2 year old granddaughter last Christmas? I think maybe I forgot to do so. The quilt was made using a charm pack. I alternated the charm squares … Continue reading

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Double Wedding Ring

Four years ago on July 4 my daughter was married! Naturally, I had to make a wedding quilt as a gift and no other would do but a Double Wedding Ring quilt. As soon as the quilt came off the … Continue reading

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Storm at Sea Quilt Top Completed

Recently, I attended a lecture and trunk show at Delphine’s quilt shop in Gaylord, Michigan. The speaker was Jodi Barrows who invented the Square-in-a-Square ruler and who has written many books about using the ruler. To use the ruler to … Continue reading

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“String Explosion”

Follow my blog with Bloglovin I was inspired by an article in the March 2013 “American Quilter” magazine by Gwen Marston to try another one of her “liberated” ideas. Click on these links to see two other projects I had … Continue reading

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The Making of a Raffle Quilt

Our local quilt group was asked to make a raffle quilt to benefit the township’s historical society’s projects. Several of our group had already learned about a nice block called the “Disappearing Four Patch.” I combined this block set on … Continue reading

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Autumn Drunkard’s Path

I just completed another curved piecing project, “Autumn Drunkard’s Path”: I was prompted to attempt this project for three reasons: 1) I bought a two-for-the-price-of-one Cyber Monday special from Cherrywood Fabrics consisting of two “grab bags” of approximately 10″ square … Continue reading

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