My husband and I have close friends who are getting married on the equinox. They spend a LOT of time camping and generally being outdoors, and I thought it might be a really neat gift to make them a quilt to cuddle under while they are under the stars. So began my inspiration... I went to my super special private...

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Baby quilts are so fun to put together. It is also a real treat to be able to go fabric shopping with the expectant mothers - there are so many wonderful fabrics to choose from! It quickly became obvious that the large butterfly print was going to be the major focal point for this quilt. Finding other butterfly fabrics...

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In March of 2012 I made the quilt "Zigzagged" for a friend. She recently contacted me to ask if I had time to make a baby quilt for her niece. I am always excited when friends want me to make a quilt for them, and since she was a return customer, I was doubly excited! We quickly settled on...

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Subtitle: I am going to be an auntie!!!! My brother and his lovely wife are expecting their first child, a baby girl, in late September. We are all so excited and looking forward to meeting Lillie Mae. With so many quilters in the family, she is going to be covered with blankets. What a lucky lady! I found some fabric that...

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I'm starting to think about creating items to make available for purchase. In that vein, I have been buying specialty fabric at after season sales. I just finished a set of 4 Christmas themed placemats. Maybe one day I'll have enough backlog of quilts and quilted items (like these placemats) to open an Etsy shop. Who knows! Regardless, I...

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I finally went back and did something with my UFO blocks that I made in 2008. Yay! I pieced them together (using left over Kona solid fabrics from the QuiltCon Block challenge) in preparation for getting my new sewing machine. I wanted a lot of open space so that I could focus on free motion quilting. I call this quilt "Modern Stained...

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I am super excited to say that I've completed my first quilt of 2013. As mentioned in previous posts, I am working through some of Weeks' and Bill's amazing patterns in "Quilts Made Modern". Over Thanksgiving, I got to visit with my lovely sister-in-law, Lauren. I really wanted to make her a lap quilt, so we went fabric shopping!...

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My sister-in-law and her significant other have a beautiful fiestaware collection. They did not have placemats for their dining, and I got excited about making them lovely placemats to coordinate! They requested 4 placemats, and after playing around with several ideas, I decided to make each placemat a brilliant color in the hopes they could mix and match their...

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As I mentioned in my last post (Modern Mystery Quilt), I have several quilt projects in the works using Weeks' and Bill's book "Quilts Made Modern". I just completed my first project - the transparency quilt. I have been wanting to make a large quilt for my bed at home to replace the quilt I made at the beginning...

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Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr, authors of Quilts Made Modern and pioneers in the modern quilt movement, designed a modern mystery quilt that was revealed in six weekly installments beginning September 12, 2012. I followed along and had fun making this mystery quilt and busting some of my fabric stash. I have several new quilt projects in the works, and...

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I've been meaning to make a quick set of 4 placemats for a while. I stumbled on a placemat pattern from Alissa, a Modern Quilt Guild member, and before I knew it, I had 4 placemats. Yay! A word of advice when quilting these placemats - it is really easy to pull the horizontal line around if you quilt with vertical lines like...

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