Month: May 2012
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Lil’ Twister quilt
Last Saturday was Craft Saturday for the women of our church. We try to do it about once a month or so. It was tough to squeeze one in this month, but we have so much fun together, talking and eating and crafting, and we really didn’t want to miss out! One of the ladies…
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Product Review: Batik Resist Mediums
My faithful mailman delivered the June/July 2012 issue of Quilting Arts Magazine to me yesterday. This is their “Staycation” issue, and there are lots of ideas of things you can try this summer. I especially liked Lyric Kinard’s article on finding your voice as an artist. That’s a journey I’ve been on for quite some…
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May Free-Motion Quilting Challenge
Today I did another sample for SewCalGal’s 2012 Free-Motion Quilting Challenge. The guest teacher for May was Leah Day. Many people became familiar with Leah when she made small free motion sample each day for a year. She has tons of information and videos on her website, so it is well worth a visit if…
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Review: The Complete Photo Guide to Art Quilting
I got a special gift in the mail this week. I’m rather addicted to books, especially ones with lots of pictures. The Complete Photo Guide to Art Quilting by Susan Stein will make a nice addition to my bookshelf, but first it will live by my couch for a while so I can leaf through…
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Nancy Crow workshop: strip-piecing days 3 through 5
On the third day of Nancy Crow’s Strip-Piecing and Restructuring workshop, we began a new assignment. We started sewing strip-pieced combinations designed to teach us about luminous colors. That is, glowing versus dull colors, or what I came to think of as “dead and alive colors.” We did some sections with bright versus dull colors,…
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Nancy Crow workshop: strip-piecing days 1 and 2
For the first two days of the Strip Piecing and Restructuring workshop, Nancy Crow taught us about figure/ground relationships. To put it simply, when you look at an abstract composition, what comes forward and what is pushed backwards? We were specifically looking at how colors influence this. We started by making a series of strip-pieced…
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Nancy Crow workshop: strip-piecing & restructuring
I didn’t post all last week because I was away at a Nancy Crow workshop! I’ve wanted to attend one for five or ten years. Probably from the first year she started holding them. I was never able to do it when I was working full time, or in the few years since I started…
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Tutorial: button magnets
I had a deadline that I had to complete by today, so naturally, midstream I had to take a little break and do something else. It really wasn’t my fault. I was a Joann’s, and they had buttons on sale, and they had cute little packs of all blue buttons. A light bulb went off…
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Winners from the 2012 MVQG show
The Miami Valley Quilters’ Guild met last night, and they announced the winners from last weekend’s show. Our guild doesn’t use a panel of judges to pick the winners. Instead, each person that comes to the show is given a ballot as they enter, and they get to vote on their favorite quilt in each…
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Deal of the Day
I’m so excited about my great deal, I just had to share about it!!! I met another one of my deadlines, and just have one more to do this week, so I decided to reward myself by going to our favorite thrift store. This is the place that sells stuff by the pound. I headed…