quilt month 6: a swap

Here’s my fabrics for the Lap Quilt Swap. I’ll be sending it to Adrienne on Monday. My selections from top to bottom: reproduction fabric, Cake Rock Beach dots, Katie Jump Rope florals, Marimekko pillowcase, another reproduction fabric, linen, and my trusty Carolina Chambray. It’s inspired by Josie’s quilt. Obviously there’s no Liberty fabrics here, but [...]

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quilt month 5: another first and some more

This is the first quilt I owned, Abby’s baby quilt. It’s one of my first Etsy purchases from Kelly. I spent a lot of time browsing to find the perfect quilt, not too boyish and not too girlish. This is just perfect. And how can you not love the combination of pinwheels and Denyse Schmidt? [...]

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quilt month 4: my first

Yesterday’s vintage hand quilted quilt made me think about my first quilt. It’s a project from Last Minute Patchwork and Quilted Gifts. As soon as as I saw it I knew it’s going to be the perfect I-have-nothing-to-do-at-the-in-laws project. I was planning on going back to Indonesia for two months and half of that time [...]

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quilt month 3: vintage find

I just got this vintage quilt for cheap from browsing Craigslist. It’s in a pretty bad condition, a lot of frayed squares and almost gone binding. The lady that sold it said that it was made by her grandmother. I wonder how long does it take her to do handquilting on a quilt that size! [...]

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quilt month 2: a finished quilt top

The star quilt along is finally done! I decided to just suck it up and make one more setting block to make half a quilt. I used a total of seven setting blocks and eight star blocks to made the top instead of the whole twenty five blocks. I did make all of the quilt [...]

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quilt month 1: japanese quilt book

Sorry for the lack of blogging, folks. I’ve been busy knitting and calling all the brokers, agents, inspectors, and everyone house related. Meanwhile, it’s quilting month over at Josie’s and I’m joining in on the fun. This is a new old book acquired from Sally’s tag sale. She’s moving to Korea (lucky her!) and destashing [...]

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