Author: Mishka
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Here’s my submission for Blogger’s Quilt Festival – Fall 2009. So far, I think this quilt that I made for a wedding gift for friends is my all time favourite. I love the warm and rich colours used. It’s a Disappearing Nine Patch. Read more about this quilt and a few other pictures here: Caitlin…
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Looking for some inspiration? Here are a couple of fabulous videos from Patsy Thompson. You’ll learn some great techniques specifically how to: burn fabric edges add colour highlights with Prismacolor pencils free motion machine embroidery I am the very lucky owner of Patsy’s free motion DVDs. I highly recommend them as they’ve been a tremendous…
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Running the Quilting Gallery site, it’s no surprise that dozens of quilting-related blogs come across my screen each day. I can’t remember another blog that captured my attention so thoroughly like Leah Day’s 365 Days of Free Motion Quilting Filler Designs. I’ve been watching the progress daily on this blog for a few weeks, and…
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Here’s the gorgeous summertime mini quilt I received from Bradie> in Alberta. I absolutely love it and will hang it in my sewing area for daily inspiration. Thank you Bradie, you are very talented.
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Here’s the mini quilt I made for the Good Ol’ Summertime Swap. It will start its journey today to my partner in the States. I used paper piecing strips that I created to stitch the mini flying geese units. They finish at 2″ wide by 1″ high. It went together really quickly and accurately doing…
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Anita W. from The Netherlands sent me this gorgeous stitched bookmark. I absolutely love it. I adore the fabric too, it’s been washed, ironed and put away in my stash, just waiting for the perfect project. Thanks Anita for your kindness.
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Here are the six baby quilts I submitted to my local quilt guild which will be donated to the children’s hospital, The tops for these quilts were made using the charms received from quilters around the world in the Charms for Charity contest I held last year. Many thanks to my friend Gailene for donating…
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Daniel loves to sit out on the balcony. This is the only pot of flowers I planted this year. I don’t get any direct sunlight, so there’s not much sense in planting stuff that isn’t going to do well.
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This is the final week to take advantage of the summer special for the Quilt Shop Locator where you can advertise directly to quilters for less than $7.00 a month. The Quilt Shop Locator is a growing network of quilt shops, online retailers, retreat facilities, pattern and fabric designers, authors, teachers and other quilting professionals…
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I finished cleaning the very messy sewing area on Saturday afternoon and took a few pictures as proof before I messed it up again. 🙂 I even have some extra space left on my shelves for more fabric that needs a good home. As you can see, my helpers were very helpful. And, I got…