Category: Colours
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Time to Play
Why have I been saving all those selvages? Why is so hard to let them go? I decided it was time to play, and see what I could do with them.. so therapeutic! So far I have created 8 blocks, and they are fast and fun to make. Final destination? Who knows!! One of them…
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Celebration of Quilts
I am a member of York Heritage Quilters Guild, and we had our quilt show last weekend (see all the photos here.) I had three quilts in the show, all bed-sized quilts that I completed in the past year. Don’t make me choose a favourite! Below are some of the other quilts I have completed…
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Colour me Blue! (part one)
I love colour, but normally I don’t think of myself as a “blue” person. But I DO seem to be buying/collecting a lot of blue fabrics right now.. so it is time to dip into that growing stash. My favourite quilts to make are those that use a single simple block. That enables me to…
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Drunkard’s Path
I have been wanting to practise my curved piecing for a long while. To start with, I watched a lot of YouTube videos on how to do this, and I tried and tried and tried. They were pretty bad. Tried pinning, clipping, and more. THEN I remembered there is a foot attachment you can buy that…
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Winter Retreat
Week 1: I am on my winter retreat- or more correctly, my retreat from winter. Weather here (Saint Simons Island, GA) is warm and sunny, so I am always surprised that the sun goes down so early. Even though I am no longer working and every day is like a vacation, this feels like a…
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A Little Colour in My Life
I’ve been working on some more subdued quilts lately, and craved some COLOUR! The York Heritage Quilters Guild is having its UFO challenge, and I am using all the extra blocks I had cut out for the Border Creek Station challenge run two years ago at Quilts at the Creek. Here is the quilt I…
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