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I had so much fun this week creating my awesome quilted laptop sleeve and yesterday I completed the applique stitching and conquered metallic thread! It’s a great feeling to start and finish a project in the same week. If you’re like me, the last thing I need is another UFO. …

Thread, thread and more thread – so many different ones to choose from. There’s cotton, polyester, rayon and metallic to name a few. My very first attempt to quilt with metallic thread didn’t go as planned. It was my very first quilt project ever and I wanted it to look …

Today is going to be so much fun adding the applique to yesterday’s checkerboard background pieces. Although the checkerboard could easily stand on its own I love adding applique and thread to a project creating just a little bit of pizzazz. Onward to applique and the 5 awesome reasons to …

Welcome back. Do you have your supplies collected and your strip sets created? Yesterday I finished off the day calculating the size of squares I wanted for my checkerboard background and sewed the strip sets together to create the checkerboard. Today I’m going to walk you through 5 easy steps …

Already, I’m dreaming of spring. This week’s project is a quilted laptop sleeve with a big flower to call spring forward. While I’m sewing a quilted laptop sleeve I’m also having some fun playing with some products I picked up at my local quilt shop. A new fusible product from …