Do I have a treat for you! Especially if you’re making the Penny Sampler, you’re going to love, love, love this. Are you sitting? I think you should sit. One member of the Penny Sampler Pattern Club was inspired to make a garden-version.
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Welcome to March and the first step in Quilter’s Color Quest! Are your color swatches ready? I think so! I’ve been seeing lots of color chips swirling around Instagram. Let’s start today in Part 1, Understanding Color.
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Weaving together my life as a maker and other spheres of life: Best of February, anticipating Quilter’s Color Quest and a beautiful work-in-progress from @DuringQuietTime.
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Guess what I started sewing today with scraps from my After the Rain quilt top? This block is going to be a bird, and it’s part of the March delivery for those in the Penny Sampler Pattern Club. I’m loving making it up in these dark and moody fabrics.
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The Quilter’s Field Guide to Color has something quite special tucked in the back of each book. It’s a heavy weight paper rainbow of colors, 150 in all! Where do those colors come from and how can you cut them out? Let’s talk.
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European quilting trends, effective quilting border treatments + a new border quilting pattern catalog.
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You know how the world shines and sparkles, after the rain? When the sunshine bounces off wet branches, dark sidewalks and washed-clean walls? I like to think this quilt top is akin to that fresh moment. Such a sharp contrast.
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I have to admit that I find my February Penny Sampler blocks a little humdrum. They’ll serve the overall composition of the sampler quilt, but as stand alone blocks they’re just not that exciting. Which makes it even more fun is it to see yours!
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It’s all too easy to page through a pretty book, but not take any action on it, right? You know me - I’m all about making stuff happen. Maybe I would have been a coach in another life? Anyhoo, I’m excited to help you exercise your colors.
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Do you own a copy of my book, The Quilter’s Field Guide to Color? Oh, that’s so cool! Well, friend, don’t let it sit on the shelf. Let’s unpack it together. You’re invited to join Quilter’s Color Quest. It’s time to take your field guide on an adventure.
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What inviting and cozy fabric groupings! Congratulations to the lucky winners, who will be receiving their mosaics in the cloth very soon.
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Sometimes it’s hard to select fabrics when the parameters are so wide open. We were allowed to use any “fresh colors”, so I just let my scraps guide me. I started by choosing a few multi-colored scraps that I thought would be fun to us.
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Wow! You did a fantastic job creating mosaics for our Evening Ember prompt. Take a moment to enjoy these fabric collections and vote for your very most favorite!
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Do you know that saying for when multi-tasking goes too far? You might have “too many irons in the fire.” Isn’t it an apt saying quilters? I know that lots of us struggle with too many works-in-progress (WIP). I find it helps to make a list!
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Weaving together my life as a maker and other spheres of life: Best of January, tackling the Half Rectangle Triangle and a fab new book for Modern Quilters.
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Slow down a minute, my friend, and ponder with me in color. In January so much seems possible. The new year spreads out before us like an vast canvas, creating space to push the boundaries of our mind. Let’s capture that feeling just a little bit longer, sheltering our dreams like sparks in the night.
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Stitch, trim, press and repeat. Here comes a quartet of Double Diamonds, one of February’s blocks in this modern sampler quilt. Today I finished my sewing for the February edition of the Penny Sampler pattern club.
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“What are people like? Are they friendly? How do they treat each other, strangers and even their pets?” Oh, such big questions! And who am I to answer? Just one person, with one limited cultural vantage point and my small experiences.
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