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Black and White, mostly
Top done! Quilts at the Creek is hoping to get a fair number of quilts donated to Quilts of Valour this summer, in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday. Quilts of Valour is a group organized to honour and support injured Canadian Armed Forces members and veterans. Quilts have long been associated with comfort, and donating quilts to this…
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MQG QuiltCon 2017 in Savannah Georgia
What a fun few days I have had! I spent 5 days at the Modern Quilt Guild’s quilt show, QuiltCon, held this year in Savannah Georgia. I saw lots of amazing quilts, great vendors, and took some fun classes. Here is what I got done in my classes: Crazy Eights with Amy Friend, from her…
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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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Circles
Well, my circles quilt is done.. now it is off to the quilters. I’ve shown this photo a while ago, but wasn’t sure what the name of this block was. Sandy suggested Tennessee Waltz, so so I did some research. So many interesting takes on this pattern, depending on what you put in the centre of…
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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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All I Want for Christmas..
is to finish this quilt… and I did it! I made hundreds of triangles from my orange scrap basket while a snow bird last winter. (I have no idea where the yellow ones are now!!) Well, I used a fair number of them up making this quilt. I made it as part of the Quilts at…
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