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February 25, 2020

Modern Quilt Guild Mini Swap from The Cozy Quilter

Last year, I attended QuiltCon in Nashville, TN with my friend, Christine. I participated in the Make a Mini, Make a Friend Swap and my swap partner and I met at QuiltCon when we exchanged our mini quilts. Evie made me the star quilt and I made the drunkard's path variation for her--I called it Maple Keys from Canada.

This year, I did not attend QuiltCon in Austin, TX, so I decided to sign up to swap a mini quilt with another quilter by mail. I received my quilt from my partner, Ann, in Texas a few weeks ago ...

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January 24, 2020

A Variety of Projects from The Cozy Quilter

I spent quite a bit of time this week working on my Modern Quilt Guild "Make a Mini, Make a Friend" swap quilt and I am very pleased to be finished. It is ready to put into the mail to my swap partner in Texas. I will be mailing it after the London Modern Guild meeting in February so that I can bring it for show and tell. Here is a sneak peek of the backing and binding as well as some of the quilting which I did with my walking foot on my DSM.

On sewing day on Monday ...

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January 17, 2020

Sewing This Week from The Cozy Quilter

Monday sewing days are very productive! I had my spinning 4 patch top done to this point before I left home and managed to get both borders made and sewn on by shortly after lunch.

I had limited blue fabric to work with so that dictated how wide the blue border would be.

I used some of the Kaffe Fassett "Millefiore" fabric that I had leftover from the spinning blocks to make the final border.

Next up, pin basting, and then quilting with my walking foot. The backing fabric was in my stash.

I even used my bowl cozy at ...

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