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Happy Tuesday! Last spring I asked a trusted friend what her impressions were: confidence was the number one take away from that conversation. Honestly, I like that she picked up on that. It’s taken a lot of time to become confident at the machine, moving the quilt under the needle and watching the quilting motifs … Continue reading Embracing Quirk, and a new class →

I am so happy to share this quilt, finally. San Francisco Bustle is this months MQG Quilt of the Month and the pattern is available to all members here.

Last May (2016), I posted a spark for the Quilt Design a Day Facebook group of a Cable car stop in San Francisco.

From this image, I designed this minimal abstract quilt design. The blues are from the cable car, the orange from the cones, the yellow from the road markings and the grey from the footpath corner. I will say the top grey box was a mistake and was out ...

I’m off……

to Quilt Retreat!    What does that mean, you’re asking if you aren’t a quilter perhaps.

Quilt Retreat, for me, happens once a year in October.  Quilt Retreat for other quilters can happen any time during the year and maybe even multiple times during the year.  The Quirky Quilters, my tribe, do retreats twice a year, April and October.

Last year I went to the April QR because we had spent the winter with our daughter’s family helping out while our son-in-law was going through a scary hospitalization and then recovery.   It was this event ...

After I showed my Pumpkin Patch quilt makings I’ve had lots of questions….  This is from Quiltmaker magazine and is a Bonnie Hunter design.

From ShirlR:
I love Bonnie’s pumpkin quilt and was pleased to get the block in Quiltmaker magazine, but I, too, thought Bonnie, on Quilt Cam, was sewing them on regular paper and adding the corners by stitch and flip, using the the Simple Folded Corners ruler,. By measuring the template in the magazine, I now know the dimensions of the pumpkins, so will probably use the Quilt Cam method to make at least one ...

I just can’t stop!!! Designing these Halloween blocks is so much fun! Here are 4 more paper pieced blocks which I am calling my “Black and White Series”.

These are 8″x 8″ unfinished blocks. I used them for potholders, but they also work great in my pillow pattern

or could be used in my “Boo” Table Runner pattern.

Or, put the entire collection of Halloween blocks together to make a quilt.

These FREE blocks can be found on Craftsy and Etsy. Or you may download them here: BLACK-AND-WHITE-BLOCKS-MERGED-AND-UPDATED.pdf (203 downloads) .

Thanks so much for being loyal customers ...

I’m honored to share my years of experience working and teaching in quilt shops, teaching nationally, talking with shop owners, and working with Generation Q Magazine in each one of these talks. Join me at International Quilt Market. Check out Ebony Love, Cheryl Sleboda, Tracy Mooney, Maddie Kertay, Heather Kubiak, Pepper Cory and so many … Continue reading International Quilt Market & Apple Pie →

Thanks to some inspiration from our talented customers, we have chosen the Flower Garden E2E 2 as our $5 deal this week!

You can get the deal here:

https://www.digitizedquiltingpatterns.com/shop/product/flower-garden-e2e-2/

Of course, thanks to that inspiration as well, we are giving you an adorable FREE SVG file as well. If you click the image you get a zip file with the SVG, DXF, and JPG! Happy Friday!

These are a few favorites of mine for this time of the year. A “Boo Bag” … “Halloween Pumpkin” … and “Halloween Fairy.” I have a couple more to post later.

Happy Autumn! Amities, Averyclaire

and a Reality Check One of the reminders from my time at the Dutchess Heritage Quilt Show is that I’m quirky. Shocking! I love being quirky. Embrace quirk, let go of seriousness. Seriously. So, this weekend during the lecture “Surprise I’m a Free Motion Quilter” the end of the lecture came, as I made decisions … Continue reading Embracing Quirkiness & Connections Quilt Festival →

  Good Morning, Quilters! Halloween is just around the corner–but there’s still time to make ourselves a sewing treat! Try the Pumpkin Pin Cushion HERE (photo above) Or make the long Pin Pillow–handy when you pre-thread several needles.  The extra-long … Continue reading →

Friday the 13th!   Never saw the movie; never plan to!   Sure hope you Friday is a TGI Friday.  Here are this week’s Friday Finds.   Be sure to leave a comment when you visit a link and like what you see.  It encourages bloggers to keep blogging (ahem, even me).

1.  Plush pumpkins, perfect!   I thought you might be interested in making these this month.  Pumpkins make great decorations for Fall, that means Halloween all the way through Thanksgiving.  HERE is the post where I found them.  This is not just for quilters!!!

2.  One definitely Halloween find for my Paper ...

Probably one of the quilts I’m most proud of.  Not sure why as it wasn’t the hardest or the prettiest.  I delivered this a couple of weeks ago and it will be auctioned veterans weekend at Krawlin for the Fallen.   It’s an annual even that raises funds for children  of fallen police officers to attend a summer camp.  I think it came out beautiful.

I was so happy to finally deliver this.  A friend is going thru cancer treatments and the prognoses doesn’t look good.  Just wanted them to remember someone was praying for him and the family.   Delivered it yesterday and broke my heart that he called to say he didn’t deserve anything like that.  Jesus died on a cross so we are deserving.

Carolyn made this lovely heart Quilt for the Guild’s Quilts of Love program. If a member loses a close family member or spends a night in the hospital, they get a quilt. We have given away a lot of quilts over the years. It’s wonderful that Carolyn gave of her time and fabric for our Heart Quilts.

Quilted with Hearts A Flutter pantograph.

Some of the members of the Queen Bee visited a member who moved an hour away. Lunch was delicious and Cowboy was a perfect host. We also got to go to the Cary Quilting Company ...

A post from Kelli–

Normally the fall is supposed to get progressively cooler right?  Well not this year in Iowa!  It seems like the last month or so, Mother Nature has been dishing out the 75-80 degree days like crazy.  Then we’ve had a few days where it’s strange because it’s cloudy, but humid, but there’s a bit of a wind.  This past weekend was super rainy, but still not freezing.   It was cool enough though to make stew!  Wahoo!

Since starting to work at the hospital, I’ve found myself just grabbing a couple things ...

Calling all cooking/baking fans and friends and family of chefs and bakers. Jennifer is hosting a Pampered Chef online party and the proceeds are going to help the island of Puerto Rico to rebuild after Hurricane Maria.

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