Partial Seams Mini Quilt
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18 Mar
2022 Finished Quilts

Partial Seams Mini Quilt

As I suspect many have felt over the past weeks watching the news unfold about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, I have felt helpless. I have purchased digital patterns via Etsy from Ukrainian sellers. You may have already seen it, but I really love the Rise of Freedom pattern by Sashas Quilts. I have donated money to care and aid...

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Playful Partial Seams - Basted
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10 Oct
Quilts

TDR Queen {Making Progress}

After pausing on working on the TDR Queen (Playful Partial Seams workshop sample mini quilt), I was able to come back and make better progress on moving it forward. Most importantly, I was able to cut correctly from the background fabric. Whew. With the correct cut under my belt, I was able to successfully get the mini quilt pieced without...

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Curve Star and Inset Curve Star Mini Quilt
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14 Aug
2020 Finished Quilts

Curve Star and Inset Curve Star Mini Quilt

This week I was able to turn my test block for the Inset Curve Star tutorial into a finished mini quilt. The mini quilt uses curve star blocks, square in a square blocks, and an inset curve star. With the test block finished as a mini quilt, I have one long term WIP that needs to be quilted, but...

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Inset Curve Star Mini Quilt
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10 Aug
2020 Finished Quilts

Inset Curve Star Mini Quilt

I was able to finish the first of two test piecing blocks that I figured deserved to become finished mini quilts over the weekend. When I pieced the brightly colored yellow, green, and purple test block that was my first attempt at piecing an inset curve star, I wasn't sure if my piecing idea was going to work. To...

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Fabric Pull
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02 Mar
Modern Design Lab

MDL Mini Quilt Challenge {Design}

After the bustle of the holidays, start of the new year, and QuiltCon, the Modern Design Lab group is looking ahead to our plans for this year. One of the first challenges in store for us this year is a mini quilt challenge. We will all be working to create a finished 15" square mini quilt (including binding) using...

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Pansy Challenge Mini Quilt
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19 Oct
2018 Finished Quilts

Pansy Challenge {Mini Quilt}

I just returned home from Greenville, South Carolina, where I had the pleasure of spending time with the Greenville Modern Quilt Guild for a lecture and workshop. My good friend, Cheryl from Meadow Mist Designs, is part of the guild and I had the pleasure of staying with her while I was there. Because I was flying coast to...

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Babsie {Mini Quilt}
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20 Aug
2018 Finished Quilts

Babsie {Mini Quilt Finish}

In loving memory of Babsy, Barbara Nieters Buchen. The overlapping circles at the bottom represent the connection between generations and the free-floating orange peel at the top is the separation felt in losing Babsie, the last of her generation in our families. During a week spent with family, I began hand quilting the piece in the evenings as we remembered Grandma:...

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The Giving Tree Mini Quilt
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06 Jan
2017 Finished Quilts, Quilts

The Giving Tree Mini Quilt

One year ago on my blog (on January 4th, 2016 to be exact) I announced I had created a Quilting Jetgirl Patreon account as a way to get some support to help me reach some goals I had for my blog and Quilting Jetgirl business. I was able to get enough support to quickly meet my main two goals: migrate...

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07 Nov
Quilts

Hand Quilting

I just got home from Quilt Festival in Houston and will need a day or two to get back up to speed on everything, decompress, and tell you about my experience in the booth for The Quilter's Planner and Quilt Theory along with my time (limited as it was) with some of the quilts and walking the show. On the...

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Quilt the Life Into It - Yellow 12wt
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11 Aug
2016 Finished Quilts, Quilts

Quilt the Life Into It {Mini Quilt}

I am really thrilled to get to share this mini quilt finish with you today. I agreed to another private mini quilt swap with Renee @Quilts of a Feather earlier this year, and the ground rules were that I was to make something and use free motion quilting for her and she was to make something and use straight...

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Ombre Mini Quilt
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10 Jun
2016 Finished Quilts, Quilts

Ombre Mini Quilt Swap

I recently participated in a mini quilt swap with a small group of quilting friends. I occasionally get to travel to visit with my husband's family, and while I am there, I have been fortunate enough to get together with this group of friends for dinner. It is only once every 3 or 4 months, but the joy of sitting...

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Family and Friends
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08 Jan
2016 Finished Quilts, Quilts

Family and Friends: Mini Quilt Finish

Have you ever had a really long deadline and wanted to give yourself permission to sit back and relax... only to have an idea hit so strong and be so compelling that you get it done right away anyway? This particular mini quilt is full of a lot of different "firsts" for me, but in spit of? because of?...

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Triple Goosed Mini Quilt
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28 Nov
2015 Finished Quilts, Quilts

Triple Goosed

Last weekend I finished a mini quilt for a private swap, and now that it has been received I can tell you about it! The paper pieced pattern for the central portion of the quilt is called Triple Goosed by Jelli Quilts. I pieced the quilt top while I was at the Quilt Bliss retreat, and I brought it home...

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Be The Light Lantern Quilt
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25 Sep
2015 Finished Quilts, Quilts, Reclamation Project

Reclamation Project VI: Light

Inspiration Song & Lyrics Bea Miller - Fire N Gold When you're stuck in a moment And your spark has been stolen This is our time to own it So own it Baby, we were born with Fire & gold in our eyes Uncomfortable in My Own Skin: Reclamation Project VI - Light A beacon of hope Shining light into darkness Carried in my heart When I was writing my post...

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Life: Ups and Downs
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03 Feb
2015 Finished Quilts, Quilts

Life: Ups and Downs

If you follow me on Instagram, then you probably saw my whirlwind make last Wednesday. Once again, I found myself in a sewing / quilting lull while I was waiting to work on some larger, long term projects. Since many of the large projects I have been working on recently have been for others, I wanted to challenge myself...

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Lillie's Gift Bag
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10 Sep
Life, Quilts, Sewing Project

Odd and Ends {WiP Wednesday}

I have accomplished a few things recently that I haven't blogged about, so I thought I would just put some odds and ends together today along with my current WiP. While this is the last thing I finished recently (umm, this morning), it is the project I am the most giddy about. My niece is going to turn 1 year old...

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Cocoa Leaf Mini Quilt
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03 Sep
2014 Finished Quilts, Quilts

Cocoa Leaf Mini Quilt

I am going to be working on the design of a queen size quilt based on a beautiful multi-colored stained cocoa leaf light fixture. Thankfully, I have access to this fixture in person, and I was able to take my Kona color card over to color match earlier this week. I particularly love the strong lines of the veins in...

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Birds on Telephone Wires - Mini Quilt
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05 May
2014 Finished Quilts, Quilts

Birds on Telephone Wires – Mini Quilt

I really wanted to make an artful quilt to gift to a special crazy Frenchman in my life. I am going to get to see him on Friday, May 9th, so I decided that this past weekend I had better make something happen! I checked in with a few close family friends who know him very well, and while...

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