In honor of Mardi Gras (in the Quarter, Fat Tuesday…) we were asked to make something out of a “Fat Quarter”. This is a quilting term for fabric that is 18 x 22.
We were allowed to ...
Mar 09, 2011
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This week on Iron Craft I challenge everyone to make something using a fat quarter of fabric. They could use any other craft supplies in the project but only 18″ x 22″ of fabric. For my pr...
Mar 09, 2011
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Ok, I am addicted to working on my hexagon flower quilt. I kind of rushed right in & started sewing flowers together only to find out my layout was going to leave some weird open hexagons. So, I c...
Mar 07, 2011
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We’re all goin’ on a
Summer Holiday…. !!!
My English Husband introduced me to Cliff Richard‘s movies. The highlight in the set is a musical called Summer Holiday.
A twenty-some...
Mar 02, 2011
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This week in honor of the Oscars Susi challenged us to create something inspired by a movie. I knew right away that I wanted to sew myself a top based on the beautiful Regency style dresses in the Emm...
Mar 02, 2011
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One more hand pieced square done for my tradition quilting techniques class.
This one is called squares & triangles. The trick is to make sure the point of the triangles hits the center of the st...
Mar 01, 2011
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Seems like my new quilts in progress are all about the brights.
First we went & picked out the fabrics for Matt’s lego quilt. We didn’t even think about taking legos with us to match ...
Feb 28, 2011
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My next quilt, after the one for my class of course, is going to be a Lego quilt for Matt. He & I love to spend a snowy afternoon sitting in front of the fire building with Legos, yes, we are adu...
Feb 25, 2011
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For this Iron Craft challenge I asked everyone to create something inspired by the place they call their hometown. While I didn’t grow up in Minneapolis, I consider it my hometown. It was the ci...
Feb 23, 2011
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Two more hand pieced star squares for my quilting class. I’m kind of over stars so glad we’ll be moving on to something else tonight. Plus no matter how hard I try I still get holes in the...
Feb 22, 2011
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