While reading mail on the computer I got an idea for a quilt. There are a lot of sudoku quilts out there which were designed according to the layout of numbers in the sudoku game.
Here is information on the basic game from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku. “Sudoku (数独, sūdoku?) is a logic-based number placement puzzle. The objective [...]
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This is something of a departure from my usual quilting news, but I heard this wonderful poem on the radio yesterday and wanted to share it. It may just become one of my favorites. I heard it on Oprah’s Soul Series on XM radio and found it today listed on her site. Give it a [...]
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Today, I decided to check out my Dear Hannah blocks. I made these from the Dear Hannah book but instead of making them tiny, I made them 12″. I like them big, and this way I didn’t have to make so many. You can see close ups of the individual blocks on my webshots. This [...]
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I took the tree down today and put up these nine patch blocks. they are from a swap between me and my friends Irene Watson in Melbourne, FL and Jan Cotton in New Zealand. This first picture shows all the nine patches along with some embroidered and appliqued blocks we have made and swapped over [...]
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Since I have had this cute design wall, I have been putting up different projects every few days and leaving them there to look at. For the last few days, this has been on my wall. It is the center block for my second tree of life quilt. I appliqued the tree a while before [...]
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Here is a picture of the wedding dress off the front of the pattern. The bodice will have the CQ embellishment and the skirt will probably be satin or maybe lace over satin. Jenny wants the bow and the ruffle at the bottom, so I hope I can make those come out looking ok. The [...]
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Well, here is a picture of the bodice pieces of Jenny’s wedding dress. The two top pieces are the fronts and the two bottom pieces are the backs. I have embroidered a variety simple stitches on each seam. Now, I can go over it again adding beads and bits of stitching to embellish the seams [...]
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Here is a picture of the ruler rack Raymond and I made. I got the idea from a really old quilting magazine. I don’t remember which one, but when I come across it again I will add documentation. It was in a section where readers write in and tell about tips and ideas they have [...]
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No pictures this time. I have been setting aside time the last few days to work on the embellishment on the pieces of Jenny’s wedding dress bodice. There are two fronts and two backs. I crazy patch pieced them a while back and now am filling them in with embroidery. I have almost all the [...]
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Here are the rows from the row robin I was in with some fellow Sunstitchers. Sunstitchers is a sub-group of the Seaside Piecemakers guild. The smaller groups are called circles. The circles meet a couple times a month and offer more ‘hanging out time” than the monthly general guild meeting. Some of us in the [...]
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