Blogland is abuzz with talk about the latest Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilt QAL, started by Angela of {fussy cut} and Amanda of msmcporkchopquilts. Not only is the Flickr group busy, busy, but Twitter is constantly updating with tweets tagged #FWQAL. Essentially, everyone is trying to do two blocks a week, in any order, out of [...]
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Based on questions from the Flickr group, here is the code for the Farmer’s Wife QAL buttons members have made.
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I’ve been assured, based on my quilty-blog browsing, that many quilters tend to gravitate toward filling their stash with a specific color (or a couple of them). Mine has been inundated with blues and greens from the start, but after my latest shopping spree, the greens have pulled ahead in the race (and other colors [...]
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I’m getting a bit ahead of schedule, but I just couldn’t stop myself from working on sashing when I got home from work yesterday. Remember, I decided to make a modification and add set-in seams to the center instead of doing butted sashing. Checkout the twist: there’s no right-side up (although it’s really only obvious [...]
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The assignment for day two of the Above All Fabric Spring Quilt-Along is to sew together the four nine-patch blocks out of charm squares. I’ll admit, I’ve been playing with the layout since I got my charm pack in the mail. I couldn’t help myself. Once I decided on my border, sashing, and bag fabrics, [...]
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The Above All Fabric Spring Quilt-Along started yesterday. The assignment: cut out the sashing, border, and binding strips and work on arranging the charm squares. Backing up: fabric choices Before I can blog about progress on this, I have to tell you about my fabric choices, huh? I’m doing the quilt top entirely out of [...]
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Remember, just last week, when I posted about all the projects I’m working on/thinking about working on? Okay, just checking. Now I’ve got it in my head to join in on a quilt-along hosted by Above All Fabric and Chris of Frecklemama. It starts on April 11, so I have two weeks to finish up [...]
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