Hospitality Quilt: “Welcome, friends! With Open Arms and Open Hearts!”
It is March/ April 2020. Covid-19 is running rampant. People are dying. People are recovering. And we are under stay-at-home orders globally. And the quilt I am making is Hospitality, a collaboration with Cherrywood Fabrics and Siesta Silver Jewelry. Does that seem a contradiction to you? A quilt named Hospitality when we are in isolation? I think it is actually a fitting quilt for such a time as this.
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Woodland Fern.
“Take a Walk in the Woods in the cool of the day.”
It was my memories of ferns growing by streams in upstate NY woods combined with the stunning batiks from Turtle Hand Batik that brought this design out of my idea files and into reality at this time. Read more about this new design for hand or machine reverse applique….
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Printing Our PDF Digital Patterns at Home is an easy and necessary option in these uncertain, self-quarantined times. Read our blog to find out two simple things to do on your in-home printer to make sure you can print our booklets and pattern pieces FULL-size for your quilting pleasure.
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Piecing the Background Fabric: Stripes
Though I usually work in batiks, I recently got inspired by a group of novelty prints to re-make my Sweetheart Sorbet pattern. I wanted to use a stripe as the background fabric, but I wanted it to peek out in a symmetrical compliment to the symmetrical design. So I pieced my background fabric. Read the blog to find out how to do it.
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