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Aurifil Thread’s Designer of the Month BOM for February is Marie-Claude Picon-Iperti of France. In this interesting block of the month, each designer’s block must be inspired by a rock music song. Marie-Claude’s block is called “Heavy Cross” and was inspired by the song of the same name performed by the rock band “Gossip.” If you are not familiar with the […]
When I was at Quilt Festival in Houston in November, I made the jump and upgraded my sewing machine to this beauty, Bernina’s 750QE. I upgraded from my 25-year-old Bernina 1010, which has been an absolute workhorse, to this computerized marvel. A nine millimeter stitch, dual feed, built-in walking foot, 12 inch harp, stitch
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I am participating in an embroidery blog hop organized by Madame Samm over at www.sewwequilt.com. Next to quilting, embroidery is my favorite needle art. To make things even more fun, the cheerleader for this blog hop is none other than my friend Jane, of Jane’s Fabrics. The blog hop features 95 bloggers who will post
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Pat Sloan is moderating a design challenge for Aurifil thread on their blog, www.auribuzz.wordpress.com. The designers she has chosen for this Block of the Month challenge must design a block using this fabric: This is Pat Bravo’s new Rock n’ Romance fabric line. The designers are to use any or all of the six fabrics featured
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In the Quilt Around the World Bee II, Beth in the UK asked each of us to make her a block of a flower that represents our country. I live in California, so I chose to make a California Poppy for Beth. I love the simplicity of this beautiful, golden-yellow flower. The inspiration for this block
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