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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I started this quilt back in April when I was in between other projects. It is a stash buster, but I don't think I really depleted much of my stash... :) Well, I had a few baby quilts I wanted to get done so I sent this one off to by quilted by someone else. And then I got...

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Using a very popular tutorial: Tallgrass Prairie Studio: Wonky Log Cabin, I set out to learn how to be more free-form in creating quilt blocks. I actually started this process in early August, and the lesson served me very well in creating the Woodland Creatures Quilt! Since I was using this as a learning piece, other things got in the...

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This quilt was based around a super cute woodland animal print fabric purchased fromSpoonflower. All other fabrics were purchased to coordinate with the animal print, and this was a super fun quilt to piece together. The backing is a flannel fabric - this baby is due in November, so hopefully this quilt will get lots of snuggly use!

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I have friends who are expecting their second later this year. Since I made a baby quilt for their first, I was excited and honored that I got to make a new baby quilt for them! My brother came out to visit at the beginning of June, and he was gracious enough to go fabric shopping with me during his...

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I really like the patterns published by Empty Bobbin Sewing Studio. I used the "Seeing Squares" pattern for the Baby Bozarth Quilt. One of the best things about the Empty Bobbin patterns is that they come in multiple sizes - and the smaller version of Seeing Squares works really well as a baby quilt. I work with the father, so when...

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City Play is a quilt that I found in my City Quilts book by Cherri House. The basis for this very fun quilt is a simple nine patch quilt block. What makes the quilt so stunning is the way she uses the borders around the nine patch blocks to give the quilt depth and interest. Also, since it uses so...

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First, a huge thank you to the empty bobbin - I absolutely fell in love with her pattern "ZigZagged" and was able to buy a kit with the pattern and fabrics for the quilt shown on the cover of her pattern booklet! Score! The cover of the pattern booklet is to the left. I have done triangles and points in quilts before,...

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