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Sewing the Mystic Garden quilt top

Putting the pieces together Last night I finished sewing the 24 flying geese units for my Mountain View quilt and I’ve sewn them onto the fabric sections that I cut on Monday. I measured each of these rows and cut the sashing strips accordingly. The quilt will be a bit…

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3 ways to make Flying Geese blocks

Stepping outside the box Nellie and I must REALLY like flying geese, because when I look back at our patterns, I find quite a few that have this block included. When we explain how to make the flying geese units in our quilt patterns, we always use the “sew and…

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Using fabric panels in quilt patterns

Substituting fabric panels into different patterns This week I’m going to be using Northcott’s new line of fabric called “Mystic Garden”. Although this line doesn’t include a panel, when I looked online to pick my fabrics for this week, one of the fabrics looked like it could be a panel…

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Finishing up the quilted retreat tote

Now that the individual parts of the quilted tote are ready, it’s time to put them together. I’m loving how everything looks so far and I’m excited to get the bag done. How about you? Are you ready for finishing up the quilted retreat tote? Laying out the pockets on…

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QUILTsocial Giveaway: Northcott ColorWorks Quilting Fabric!

Enter now for your chance to win Northcott ColorWorks Quilting Fabric! This timely giveaway includes a Northcott Fabrics ColorWorks concepts SOHO panel, plus 1m ColorWorks concepts coordinating print, plus two 1/2 m of ColorWorks solids. A pattern guide for the entire ColorWorks concepts coordinates is also included. Northcott ColorWorks Concepts…

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