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Quilting and Patchwork

June 2nd, 2007

Inexpensive Fabric Sources for Quilters & Fabric Artists

For many quilting and fabric art projects, we don’t need the most expensive fabric.  Odds and ends from various souces will suffice.  Also,  you may find some very nice fabric as you accumulate it from your non-traditional sources.
At Quilted Paradise, I found an article about Fabric Finds for the Frugal Quilter which contains some very […]

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February 19th, 2007

Searching Through Scrap Baskets at a Quilt Shop

My daughter Beth and I had fun this morning searching through the scrap baskets at the local quilt shop.  Beth needed some thread for her current fabric art project.  So, of course, we browsed the shop and chatted with other quilters who were out on this bitter cold, near zero day in New Hampshire.
“Not even […]

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August 31st, 2006

Creating Quilts With Scraps

The pioneer quiltmakers created most of their quilts from scraps, pieces of fabric left from other sewing projects or outgrown clothing that still had some sturdy material.  Generally they didn’t purchase lengths of fabric solely for the purpose of quiltmaking.  Even the backs of some of the quilts were made from larger pieces of fabric […]

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