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More white and black....... from Exuberant Color

While I was in the basement doing laundry and vacuuming, I decided to put some more white and black prints for the rest of the star blocks. I have to cut some more star points in Kaffe fabrics too. I have two sets cut already.

It cooled off a little yesterday so I baked a batch of shortbread cookies and mixed 2 other batches of cookie dough and put them in the refrigerator. I like to bake first thing in the morning while the house is cool.

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Spring Quilt Festival 2013 - Post One from Angel Scraps Quilting

Its time for the Spring Quilt Festival for 2013 at Amy's Creative Side. Go HERE to read about the festival. Just click on the different category links to see all kinds of wonderful quilts.

This year the festival is divided into categories and each post will need to be entered into a particular category. I'd like to enter my "Just Another Day in Paradise" quilt in the photography category. I'm certainly no professional photographer, but I do enjoy "trying" to get a few good shots...

The name of this quilt is "JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE".

The ...

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{Sponsor Love} from A Spoonful of Sugar

Here is a roundup of great products from our sponsors that caught our eye this week.

Madelyn Shirt Pattern (USD $10.95 pdf pattern), Violette Field Threads

Ziggy Chevron in Candy (USD $9.50 yard), XO Gigi Fabrics

Tilda Fabric (AUD $28.00 for two half metre cuts), Mimmis

Basket of Flowers Sewing Box (AUD $11.00 for ePattern), Stitching Cow

Baby Whale Print (AUD $24.95), Antipodean Love

Watermelon Striped Grosgrain (38 mm wide) (AUD $2.60 per metre), Ribbons Galore

Cath Kidston Floral Wallet (AUD $39.90), Mimmis

Nagorie Feather Pads (USD $3.50), Fleuriste Craft Supply

Bake ...

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EB Shelves from Welsh Quilts and other Traditions

Well thank you all for a lovely lot of comments - such a treat to have them and read them and I am so glad you enjoyed seeing the dresser.

I seem to have more reaction to dressers than most things, so while we are on a roll and continuing on views from my computer, if I swing my chair around this is the view -

When I had a new floor in my workroom just before Christmas it was a big upheaval and the room had to be stripped out. It lasted weeks, as it rained constantly and the floor took ...

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Saturday's Smile!! from The Quilting Garden

For my friend, Tag!! :-)

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Saturday's Smile!! from Lavender Quilts

For my friend, Tag!! :-)

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FNSI on a Saturday from Lilabelle Lane

Somehow I missed FNSI this month so I had a

SASI (Saturday Afternoon Sew In) instead.

First up I need go back a couple of days and share Block 9 of my

Designer Mystery BOM

And here are the first 9 blocks

Then today I worked on Blocks 10 and 11

And this is how things look now :o)

Block 12 is in transit from the US.

This means that next month the new

Designer Mystery BOM starts

I cant wait to see and start this one. It will be in beautiful Avalon

fabrics by Fig Tree.

I also found ...

added by Sharon - Lilabelle Lane 0 minutes ago. under 2012 designer mystery bom , fnsi , hex on the beach

Making space from Sampaguita Quilts

As James and Eleanor have been watching youtube videos from the International Space Station (the function of the toilet in particular is hilarious to 5- and 7-year-olds!) I have been piecing together my own version of space.

Once I'd run out of my flower-headed pins with cutting the pattern pieces from fabric, I started pairing them up and sewing them together. After going back and forth to the computer screen and flipping between the 12 photos I took of the layout, I decided to print them out and puzzle them together. I edited the photos first, removing any colour ...

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Le Jardin Quilt. from Red Brolly

This is a photo of me looking out the window of my office through the clematis that's happily enjoying the sunshine.You can just see me if you look through the hole in the clematis to where the window is. See- I'm waving! Behind the venetian blinds. Sadly the garden doesn't look like that at the moment- the clematis has gone into hiding for the winter. But luckily there's the Girls Own Stitching Club with it's embroidered flower samplers to keep the spring memories happening. I've been madly sewing the first sampler we did ...

added by Bronwyn ... 0 minutes ago. under brolly , garden , girls own stitchery club , le jardin , quilt blocks , quilts , red , red brolly , sewing

Shelving Crisis... 10% Opportinity from Angie Quilts

A few weeks ago I had to confess about having run out of shelf space.
It didn't stop the fabric arriving though, woooohooo. I ordered few more little trollies... they're full already... hmmm, 'oh dear' and 'yeeeha' at the same time eh?
There are many bolts with small amounts of fabric left on them and, as I really need the shelf space for incoming fabric orders, I've decided to do this...

From now, today, right here in this very early moment... until Saturday 1st June, I will take 10% off the price of each piece of fabric ...

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Spring Quilt Market 2013: Friday from Fat Quarter Shop's Jolly Jabber

Our first show day at Spring Market has come and gone. We spent the day surrounded by gorgeous new collections, patterns and all of our favorite designers. Each booth was extremely creative and we are so full of ideas for each fabric collection. Want a peek at what we saw? Here is an inside look! To top it off, we will be giving away a bundle from our Sample Spree loot! And if nightly recaps aren't enough, be sure to follow us on Twitter for live Market coverage, head to our YouTube channel to watch TWO videos from Schoolhouse ...

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A Quilt Finish For My Mom! from Busy Hands Quilts

For Mother's Day I finished this quilt for my mom. She made the quilt blocks and assembled them together, and I added the borders and quilted and bound it. She did her part several years ago, and I did mine last week! It had been on a quilting hoop for awhile at her house, intending to be hand quilted, and when that didn't happen, it then sat in my craft closet for ... over a year ...? Sorry, Mom!! I kept dragging my feet because the blocks were set on point, and I couldn't decide how to finish it ...

added by Mrs.Hearts 0 minutes ago. under gifts , wall hangings

Introducing - A Paper Piecing Party! from Quiet Play

I heart paper piecing. Pretty sure you’re likely to have figured that out by now. I love piecing, making patterns, seeing other people’s paper piecing, discovering new patterns. I love all of it. Except for pulling off the paper on the back. But even that I can live with.

So I thought it was about time that we truly celebrated paper piecing – and what better way than with a party? Not only that, a regular weekly party!

How about a linky party just for paper piecing? Oh I can hear you shout “Yes please, our lives have been ...

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Fresh as a daisy from Caesarea Scrappers

This quilt that Lorraine started several years ago is as fresh as a daisy with its yellow and blue fabrics. We chose to use a white thread so as to not overwhelm the stars and picked up the star motif which is also in one of the fabrics in the quilting motif of stars and meandering.

Just finished. A lovely fresh quilt pieced by Lorraine B

I hope Lorraine is pleased with how it turned out. It is now trimmed and ready for her to collect. Lorraine was lucky enough to win a gift certificate for quilting services at our Guild AGM so no invoice to raise for this job ...

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hot stuff from downunderdale

I have 6 different chilli plants growing and we have had so many chillies it's been great. they are supposed to be from mild to hot but they are all hot to very hot - someone told me the dry summer and the long summer has meant that they are hotter at present. Lovely they are - like the basil, I like to run my fingers over them and smell the heat. I have just made a curry for dinner with one of each type included.

I have been playing with Dorlands Wax as a resist on different surfaces. At the ...

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So Many Good Things! from Bear Patch Quilting

hWe have a lot of pictures to share with you tonight, after a full day of looking and choosing and deciding what to order for the coming months at Bear Patch. Here are some highlights:

Shannon Fabrics Cuddle chevron
prints and solids in several colors.

Shannon Fabrics sculpted chevrons.

We met Anna Griffin, a wonderful designer of textiles.

Field Day by Blend Fabrics

Elianore by Anna Griffin

Field Day by Blend Fabrics

Elianore by Anna Griffin

We didn't order this fabric or pattern, but I really liked the quilting!

This & That hexagon purse

This & That new club with a ...

added by the Patch People 0 minutes ago. under quilt market

Quilt Market Giveaway..Day #2 from Jo's Country Junction

While the quilt shop owners and vendors are all in Portland, Oregon at Quilt Market, Kelli and I thought it would be fun to host some giveaways featuring goodies that might be seen at market and offer giveaways to all of you. Make sure to come back each day over the weekend to sign up [...]

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reflets et contre-jours from L'Atellier d'Antoinette

Amusement photographique :

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Blazing star from Caesarea Scrappers

I started and finished two stars as planned yesterday evening, though I wasted some precious fabric as I'd labelled the die wrongly and cut the wrong pieces from the wrong fabric. Sigh. More fabric scraps to donate to Astra. Eventually I had the right pieces, then some got sewn the wrong way and had me scratching my head and abandoning my sewing for a while.

Eventually I got my brain in gear and the stars came together very quickly. The points are almost perfect and that's good enough for me. A successful FNSI.

I won't be going ...

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Quilt Market Photos.. from Seriously...I think it needs stitches

It officially opened today.. Day 1 of Market, but day 3 for us. Beth got lots of good feedback on her School House presentation from people who came by the booth, and we passed out brochures, and cards and buttons, and then this evening, Kathy drove us to her house for dinner. She cooked us such a wonderful dinner, and her and her husband are just so sweet! Hard to believe we only just met her on Wednesday!

Then.. it had to happen sometime as we're not getting that much sleep and have been on our feet for the ...

added by Kelli 0 minutes ago. under portland quilt market

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