Cocoa Leaf Quilt
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2016 Finished Quilts, Quilts

Cocoa Leaf Quilt Finish

I was really excited yesterday morning to get the binding sewn down to finish the Cocoa Leaf quilt. Before I jump to some finish photos, let's pause and talk a bit about trimming such a large quilt with lots and lots of negative space. Bottom line: trimming a quilt like this is a challenge. I use carpenter's squares, long metallic...

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Cocoa Leaf Quilt - Playing with Layout
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Quilts

Cocoa Leaf Quilt

I have friends who have commissioned me to make several quilted items for them in the past: Fall Placemats (which they use in their home) and Lighthouse Lens Placemats (which became a Christmas gift for family last year). They have now asked me to create a queen size topper quilt for the other side of their family. The quilt will...

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Fall Placemats - Pieced Tops
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Quilts

WiP Wednesday {10/15/2014}

This week I have an update for 4 different projects. How is that for multi-tasking? Let me tell you, it is kind of over whelming for me... but at the same time it is fun and gratifying to see progress (even small progress) on each project. 1. Cocoa Leaf Drum Lamp Inspired Queen Sized Quilt Things have progressed along quite nicely...

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Concept Hand Sketch
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Quilt Design

Cocoa Leaf Queen Size Quilt {Quilt Design}

I delivered the Cocoa Leaf mini-quilts about a week ago and spent some time with my customers discussing design options for the larger, queen size quilt. I drew up some pretty nice hand sketches and colored them with colored pencil, and I am kicking myself for not photographing them before leaving them with the customers. Oops. So I pulled...

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