Category Archives: Quilting

Arizona Sunset

Last week a friend of mine returned from a month-long vacation in Arizona. She and I belong to a small quilting group in our town and she brought back a fat quarter of this fabric for each of us. She … Continue reading

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Garden Table Top Basket

The pattern for this topper was from the January/February 2012 issue of “Quiltmania” magazine. The design was by Maggie Bonanomi for Blackberry Primitives. The original used wool fabrics, but I used batiks from my fabric stash. I added a border … Continue reading

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Red and White Robbery

I really should not be thinking about another quilting project, but I just could not resist trying my hand at a two color quilt design in EQ7. I was inspired by the fabulous display of red and white quilts sponsored … Continue reading

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Another Quilt in Progress

My current big project is from “String Quilt Revival” by Virginia Baker and Barbara Sanders. String quilting is an old technique where strips of fabric are sewn to a fabric foundation. After enough strips are sewn to cover the block, … Continue reading

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Thunder Bay Charm Quilt

A charm quilt is made up all of one tessellating patch where each patch is a unique fabric. I belonged to the Thunder Bay Quilt Guild when some of the members of the group did a charm exchange. Eighteen of … Continue reading

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Purple Pineapple Completed

I finished the machine quilting and binding for the Purple Pineapple quilt about a week ago. After quilting and binding, the quilt measured 99 inches by 99 inches. First, I did a little practice piece of the quilting designs I … Continue reading

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2011 A Year in Quilts

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Purple Pineapple Progress Report

I pieced all 100 pineapple blocks and assembled the center of the quilt, 10 block by 10 blocks. I added the first inner gold border. I strip pieced the second inner border. I trimmed the second inner border, then handled … Continue reading

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Purple Pineapple Update

I have been making good progress on the Purple Pineapple quilt. I have all 100 interior blocks pieced. The final two rows on all four sides include some almost-solid purple corner blocks so that the internal border of purple diamonds … Continue reading

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Purple Pineapple Blocks

After seeing Gyleen Fitzgerald on The Quilt Show recently, I bought her book and tool. She advocates making her pineapple blocks to turn “Trash to Treasure.” So, one Sunday morning I went through my gigantic garbage bag of scraps and … Continue reading

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