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Quilt Bindings & Boarders A long time ago in “ A Funny Thing happened on the Way to The Forum ” I said life happens well it happen to me again hence it has been way to long to try and finish this post. Like the rest of a Quilt there are many choices/ways to finish off or bind a Quilt. After searching around I thought how about including a Video Tutorial on binding, I’m no expert! What I found where too many choices. So I have cherry picked a few to give you some more choices, as if you need... Read Full Story

Quilting Seven Deadly Sins The Seven Deadly Sins are said to be – Pride/Envy/Anger/Sloth/Greed/Gluttony/Lust. Here is my tongue and cheek take on the “Quilting Seven Deadly Sins” and their just punishments. 1. Pride - I guess can be seen as a good thing, but be careful of false pride seeing that really great sewing job when the show judge is seeing “you’ve got to be kidding me”! Your punishment is having to accept your participants certificate in front of your friends. 2, Envy - happens... Read Full Story

Elyssa’s World July 2010 Machine Pieced ; Hand Quilted Wall Hanging Based on Cinderella from: “ Once Upon a Quilt “{to see click on page 7 of our Amazon Store} book by Bonnie Kaster This seemed to be a “if anything can go wrong it will” quilt project. All the careful planning that went into the creation seemed to be for naught at times, but in the end it came out looking okay .Thew princess on the castle stairs is a photo of Elyssa printed onto fabric. Other elements in the quilt were... Read Full Story

Elyssa’s World July 2010 Machine Pieced ; Hand Quilted Wall Hanging Based on Cinderella from: “ Once Upon a Quilt “{to see click on page 7 of our Amazon Store} book by Bonnie Kaster This seemed to be a “if anything can go wrong it will” quilt project. All the careful planning that went into the creation seemed to be for naught at times, but in the end it came out looking okay .Thew princess on the castle stairs is a photo of Elyssa printed onto fabric. Other elements in the quilt were... Read Full Story

Grand kids Summer 2010 cards Materials: Card stock, Images/Words from stash, Computer”Card Making” program, Scissors, Glue Summer should be a time of adventure for the grand kids, even if they never leave home. The front of each card is a back round destination , with a flying car & driver . The inside is a combination of computer generated greeting, cut out and pasted , along with grand kid appropriate collage elements . These were quick to make, gathering the images, creating the... Read Full Story

Grand kids Summer 2010 cards Materials: Card stock, Images/Words from stash, Computer”Card Making” program, Scissors, Glue Summer should be a time of adventure for the grand kids, even if they never leave home. The front of each card is a back round destination , with a flying car & driver . The inside is a combination of computer generated greeting, cut out and pasted , along with grand kid appropriate collage elements . These were quick to make, gathering the images, creating the... Read Full Story

Oz On The Wall June 2010 Wall Hanging; Machine pieced, Hand Quilted, Embellished Pattern: From Quilters Newsletter Magazine, Oct 2003 or “I love the fabric, but what do I do with it” pattern This is the second wall hanging made using this pattern. This time more than a fabric was used for the focus squares. I had left over fabric from the Christmas Oz Quilt . This is a companion wall hanging to go with the quilt . There is one new piece of sepia print fabric from the collection... Read Full Story

Oz On The Wall June 2010 Wall Hanging; Machine pieced, Hand Quilted, Embellished Pattern: From Quilters Newsletter Magazine, Oct 2003 or “I love the fabric, but what do I do with it” pattern This is the second wall hanging made using this pattern. This time more than a fabric was used for the focus squares. I had left over fabric from the Christmas Oz Quilt. This is a companion wall hanging to go with the quilt. There is one new piece of sepia print fabric from the collection that... Read Full Story

“ Bling ” Project by Carol Hall inspired by “Gideon Golden Fish” by Dot Lewallen as seen in the July/August 09 “Cloth Paper Scissors” Overloaded with forgotten Beanie Babies, this is a large one,  your not sure what to do with, or visit a Thrift Shop to find an animal of your choice for this fun project. Pull out your stash of buttons, beads & glitter! Here again keep cruising the Thrift Shops to find some “Bling” for this project. Some minor surgery is needed on your animal of choice... Read Full Story

“ Bling ” Project by Carol Hall inspired by “Gideon Golden Fish” by Dot Lewallen as seen in the July/August 09 “Cloth Paper Scissors” Overloaded with forgotten Beanie Babies, this is a large one,  your not sure what to do with, or visit a Thrift Shop to find an animal of your choice for this fun project. Pull out your stash of buttons, beads & glitter! Here again keep cruising the Thrift Shops to find some “Bling” for this project. Some minor surgery is needed on your animal of choice... Read Full Story