Harvest Quilting Themes
Do you have favorite quilting themes? Do you have a favorite time of year that seems to be reflected in your quilting and fabric art?
My daughter has a fascination with leaves that subconsciously comes through in her quilting and fabric art design. Also, many of these are in autumn colors and portray falling […]
Just Among Friends
Thank you all for leaving comments on the Bloggy Giveaways post and sharing your quilting stories. It’s like sitting around the quilting frame at a quilting bee and exchanging bits and pieces of our quilting lives.
Some are beginning quilters; others have learned to quilt from moms and grandmothers; still more share quilts handed down […]
Arts Bloggers
The Arts Bloggers provide ideas and inspiration for our crafty projects. It’s fun to be part of this group. I hope you find something that fun to do or learn about.
Boo-tacular Halloween crafts
Chloe at Tangled Thread has put together a list of her favorite free patterns for Halloween crafts - for all […]
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THURSDAY THIRTEEN
Nowadays, quilters and fabric artists use many types of fabric, depending on whether the item they’re creating is useable/wearable art or something they hang on the wall.
Here are some fabrics used today and yesterday. Some may be named because of their content while others by the design. Some you may decide to try; others may […]
Blogtober Fest Winners
We’ve reached the end of Blogtober Fest and I’ve heard from the Quilting and Patchwork winners with their addresses. Thank you, everyone, for participating and leaving comments. It was very enjoyable to read your comments and to know I’d inspired many of you as well as stimulating memories.
10/7 Giveaway - Carla is the […]
SHARING MEMORIES
Thank you, my readers and fellow quilt lovers, for sharing your memories and experiences with “blankies” and quilts your grandmothers or moms made you. I hope you’re writing them down, taking pictures of the quilts if they still exist, and preserving these memories for future generations.
I’d like to share some of these with other […]
Feedsack fabrics fascinate me. So I collect them whenever I can. I haven’t done a great deal with those I’ve accumulated so far. But they bring back memories.
These are what Nanny used for many of the squares in the quilts she and I pieced for my sister, brothers and myself. The feed for the chickens on their […]
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“I’m patching patches!” exclaimed my daughter.
She was repairing the quilt or “blankie” I made for her son when he was born 13 years ago. It was crib blanket size in rail fence design. The colors were predominately green and yellow.
I recall, as we waited for Alex to arrive, his 4-year old sister Kara and I […]
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When I saw the picture of this rocking chair surrounded by patchwork border, I was reminded of my grandmother and quilting. I learned to quilt with Nanny, who sat in her rocking chair beside the kitchen window.
There she could look out beyond the porch and see what was going on at the barn. She also […]
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THURSDAY THIRTEEN
Often it’s difficult to find inspiration for quilting designs. You feel you’ve made the same thing over and over, so want some new ideas. But where do you come up with something unique and different?
Here are some tips on finding inspiration and new ideas. Some may work for you.
Look at the different shades […]
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