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My Sixtieth Flower Block
Pressing, drawing, cutting and stitching, with some tweaking along the way produced the following Flower block - the 60th in the BOW flower block series.
My Sixtieth Flower Block
Pressing, drawing, cutting and stitching, with some tweaking along the way produced the following Flower block - the 60th in the BOW flower block series.

My Favorite Flower - creating a block
Fuchsias are my very favorite flowers. For my fuchsia block I used two shades of pink. The three flowers are made individually on a Teflon sheet first before adding them to...
My Favorite Flower - creating a block
Fuchsias are my very favorite flowers. For my fuchsia block I used two shades of pink. The three flowers are made individually on a Teflon sheet first before adding them to...

My Adventure with Stained Glass Applique
From the very first designed stained glass applique project to the most recent and how they came to life, a journey that hasn't finished yet as thoughts for the next design...
My Adventure with Stained Glass Applique
From the very first designed stained glass applique project to the most recent and how they came to life, a journey that hasn't finished yet as thoughts for the next design...

Morning Glories applique quilt - a play with color
It's fun playing around with various colors in a quilt. Using one of my favorites, I came up with many variations - some I likes, others not so much. Which...
Morning Glories applique quilt - a play with color
It's fun playing around with various colors in a quilt. Using one of my favorites, I came up with many variations - some I likes, others not so much. Which...

Fascinated about Filament Fantasy
Beautiful quilts can be made on any machine - you just have to know how to work with those threads on your own machine. Linda Schmidt gives you a step-by-step...
Fascinated about Filament Fantasy
Beautiful quilts can be made on any machine - you just have to know how to work with those threads on your own machine. Linda Schmidt gives you a step-by-step...

Creative Twist on Purse
Instructions on how to make easy alterations to the Candy Sweet purse to make it your own. These instructions include two new styles of purse using the Candy Sweet pattern...
Creative Twist on Purse
Instructions on how to make easy alterations to the Candy Sweet purse to make it your own. These instructions include two new styles of purse using the Candy Sweet pattern...

Add a little Applique or Quilting
Download this snowflake design and use it on your next Christmas or Wintery project as a quilt design or an applique design. I'd love to hear where you plan to...
Add a little Applique or Quilting
Download this snowflake design and use it on your next Christmas or Wintery project as a quilt design or an applique design. I'd love to hear where you plan to...

Quilting Ideas
Normally I would stipple quilt it but this time I will use an easier technique suitable for beginners for which I have a couple of tricks to speed up the technique.
Quilting Ideas
Normally I would stipple quilt it but this time I will use an easier technique suitable for beginners for which I have a couple of tricks to speed up the technique.

Angled Seams - a tip for sewing them
Remember my tutorial about snowball corners? Today I'm joining an angled seam to a straight seam so it is a little more difficult to make them match accurately, but there is a...
Angled Seams - a tip for sewing them
Remember my tutorial about snowball corners? Today I'm joining an angled seam to a straight seam so it is a little more difficult to make them match accurately, but there is a...

Manuka Flower Block
Today I love seeing the flower trees as I go for a walk and think of these memories - definitely a block to include in my BOW flower collection. It's dainty...
Manuka Flower Block
Today I love seeing the flower trees as I go for a walk and think of these memories - definitely a block to include in my BOW flower collection. It's dainty...

Project Bags - the pattern, kit, and finished p...
I've been doing more sewing than quilting this week - actually my machine has been getting quite a workout as I've been testing out a new design
Project Bags - the pattern, kit, and finished p...
I've been doing more sewing than quilting this week - actually my machine has been getting quite a workout as I've been testing out a new design

Quilting my Bargellos
More talk about quilting - this time quilting motifs as well as continuous borders on Bargello quilts - wind swept leaves and drifting snowflakes.
Quilting my Bargellos
More talk about quilting - this time quilting motifs as well as continuous borders on Bargello quilts - wind swept leaves and drifting snowflakes.
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