Category Archives: quilted projects

To Conserve, Repair or Repurpose

A friend of my adult daughter has ask me to do something, anything with all or part of her old baby quilt.  It has traveled life with her, even going as far as Paris, and she’s not willing to let … Continue reading

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Productive Waiting

I have been asked to make a black quilt.  I have this black material on my longarm just now.  Can you see the white lint from white batting on the first bar?  I started to put the white batting on and … Continue reading

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Baby’s Vision Quilts

I’m making some quilts, which support a baby’s visual development.  Initially, babies see black and white or high contrast.  Then they see the fine lines.  Finally, they will begin to differentiate between colors.   I will have these products coming up … Continue reading

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Quilted Headboard Wall Hanging

As I didn’t want to load a time consuming and/or customer quilt onto my longarm before our guild’s quilt show this weekend, I threw on the wall hanging for behind the guest bed in our home.  I loved the fabric … Continue reading

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When ideas flow…

When ideas flow they are not always related to one’s intentions.  Today, my intent was to finish squaring and binding my autumn jelly roll quilt.  That didn’t happen.  Last week, as I previously indicated, I had finished the ‘Swedish Quilt’ … Continue reading

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The Holidays…

We had lovely company for several weeks over the holidays so the festivities lasted a bit longer than usual.  Things have settled down now so I’ll get back to blogging a little more regularly, I hope.  If I made new … Continue reading

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The beginning of a design…

I’ve been busy with odds and ends. I did get my Etsy shop open:  https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheQuiltifyShop.  So that’s exciting.  It’s been interesting.  There’s a learning curve certainly; particularly with my usual problem: good photographs…still working on that one.  The photographs in … Continue reading

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A new project

I picked some fabrics from my stash for a baby quilt.  I like my quilts to be gender neutral, but I’m afraid there might be a few people who feel the purple makes it too feminine.  I’ll let the consumer … Continue reading

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ereader covers

In small blocks of time, I have managed to sew a little.  I have been working on various forms of this:  This is a travel pouch for a nook, whether it be in a purse on a daily basis or … Continue reading

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Distractions …

For September I have planned to do other things besides quilting.  I recently retired so I can allocate more time to sewing, piecing quilts and longarm quilting…travel, life…I could go on, but before I do all these things I have … Continue reading

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