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The first clue for the Country School Quilter's mystery quilt is now posted on the Country School Blog. 

Here are the blocks from the first clue. I am making 2 quilts. The gold/black one will be a QOV and the red/tab/blue one will be a veteran's quilt. You can read the general information on the CSQ blog, just page down to get to the first 2 posts. You can read about some extra incentive that I'm offering here.

If you have any questions please post them at the CSQ blog so I can answer ...

I'm almost caught up on the quilting for projects pieced over the winter.  Once more to go, but I think I'll put my Christmas Wish quilt together first.

I finished my guild BOM version 2 quilt yesterday, but as we've been planting annuals in the garden today, I haven't managed to take a picture of the finished quilt yet.

This time, Amy at My Creative Side, is allowing two quilt entries into the Blogger's Quilt Festival. So, I decided that I should enter my Koi Pond quilt into the Home Machine Quilted category., since I entered my Elephants on Parade quilt into the Bed Quilt Category.

I have the results on my design wall of working on some of my getting it done goals. First off are some of the border units arranged around Cactus Rose. Eight done, 28 left to go. I haven't decided if I will sew the curved seams as I go, or wait until they are all done, and then have a marathon curved piecing session. Then comes the decision on how to quilt it.

I don't usually mention Moda's Bake Shop site here - but it is a great one to know about. Every day they have a new FREE pattern for a quilt-y item. Today's is a good house/hostess gift: http://www.modabakeshop.com/2012/12/60-minute-gift-herringbone-hot-pads.html

Like she said - this gives a whole NEW meaning to 'barn quilt'!! :) photo from http://neueregel.tumblr.com/post/50012499172

Great tutorial for doing Crayon Batiks: http://elementaryartfun.blogspot.com/2012/08/awesome-crayon-batik.html?showComment=1345927658004

:) Linda

Es gibt sicher Leute, die fahren nach München zum Sightseeing und dann gibt es die, die fahren nach München zum Papierschöpfen. Wir gehören zur letzten Gruppe. Wir haben nichts gesehen von München -Schande über unser Haupt- dafür haben wir zwei Tage von morgens bis abends Papierbilder geschöpft und geprägt und sind richtig stolz auf uns. Ausgesucht hatten wir uns das Atelier von Beatriz von Eidlitz, weil sie das Papierschöpfen mehr von der künstlerischen Seite vermittelt. Wir wollten Günther Ücker´s Nagelbilder nachmachen und genau das und noch viel mehr haben wir gemacht.

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I've had this project on my mind for a very long time... just never set aside the time to figure it all out and do it.  So when a new sponsor- Shannon Fabrics reached out to me about trying out their Cuddle Fabric I knew this was the perfect project for it!

Hey Guys!

Last week was a great week for me!  I did a lot of sewing, celebrated my 3 year wedding anniversary and spent the weekend celebrating my Daddy’s birthday!  Be warned this post may be a bit long ;0)  I have a lot of pictures to share.

On Monday, I started my Dot Dot Dash Bag class at Fabricate Studios (my most favorite place in the world).  I will be finishing that bag tonight in class, so i will be show you that tomorrow!  The bag is by Sew Sweetness, you should go check out her blog to ...

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We are going to have two days of What's new this week!  Today are the items that I logged in.  Tomorrow is a special What's New!

We got a lot of great fabrics in this week!  I will tell you some of these were $8/yard.  However, you have to come in to see which ones.  Am I sneaky?  It could be also that I really do not remember and I lose my notes that I make myself.  You decide which is the answer...........lol

32 machines – 32 quilters all sewing away in St. Charles Illinois! Today we are working on pineapple Blossom blocks, and having a great time while focusing on finding the sweet spot for our perfect quarter-inch seem, marking lines for perfectly sized bonus triangles, and sewing up the scraps! It's a beautiful Monday afternoon – and we couldn't be happier than to be spending this time together

My sister (in Kansas) chided me earlier this week because I have not been updating our shop blog since I got back from my trip in late April (I can always count on her to keep me awake!:). I've been concentrating on posting to our Facebook page since business pundits tell me that is vitally necessary for a business to do - forgetting that I already have a perfectly good platform for touching you all! :) My apologies - I think I will post interesting tidbits here in the future and let them propogate to our FB wall. (Isn't technology just ...