All the preparation is complete. It’s time to start sewing! Here’s everything you need to know to start sewing the simple 4-Patch blocks and Penny Patch 4-patches for your Penny Patch quilt. Enjoy the process!
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A week of sand, sea and slow stitches, in photos - - - the Zeeland coast, Camping Dutch style, Feet in the North Sea, Veere Harbor, Middelburg Abbey, Slow Stitching spot and new Ice Cream Soda blocks.
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While I’m away from the studio, it’s the perfect time to reflect on some of the quilts I’ve recently longarm quilted. Today’s round up includes a very summery fun quilt, a special custom-quilted mini and a few quilts with new-to-me quilting designs for all-over quilting.
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Cutting for the Penny Patch quilt - step by step with three different cutting plans from fat quarters. This post contains a ton of pictures aimed to help beginners. For quick reference, scroll to the Cutting Summary at the end.
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Before you start cutting fabrics, let’s take a look at the design of the Penny Patch quilt: quilt layout, block count and the different ways to use color in your Penny Patch blocks.
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It’s been on my list for an embarrassing long time - update the Penny Patch sew-along! This beginner-oriented event, circa 2013, is an excellent free resource for those sewing their first quilt.
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Make Modern magazine has just released a new issue! It’s a beautiful magazine written by quilters for quilters and delivered digitally to creatives across the world. Patterns, interviews + ideas for the modern quilter.
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Guess what? Next Friday my family departs for two weeks in France! Eeee! We are taking the train from our home in The Netherlands to southern France, via Amsterdam and Paris. I’m totally taking my favorite slow stitching project!
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Social trust wasn’t a value growing up in the United States. I was taught that making yourself vulnerable to strangers was reckless, foolish, irresponsible. Our time in The Netherlands is showing us another way to live.
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I had in mind an older child when creating this quilt. This one has Clashy Bright colors, a connection to a long-ago created palette that continues to inspire. The colors have a high-energy vibe with a touch of moodiness from the dark, dark stars.
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Weaving together my life as a maker and other spheres of life: Best of June, planning for our first American visitor, celebrating Teri’s great Economy Star Parade quilt and anticipating starting a new quilt!
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Last batch of blocks! I hope you find the process of cutting center squares and choosing coordinating fabrics to be totally consuming in a fun way! I tend to enter a sort of trance and can’t stop until all the fabrics are happily grouped.
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This squishy baby quilt is fit for a party. What a joyful way to welcome a new baby girl or boy. I only wish I had a chubby cheeked little one to photograph on my baby-sized Confetti quilt. It would be such a fun photo!
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The crazy got started when Elora received a notice about Juffendag. That translates as Teacher’s Day and is a collective birthday party for the teachers, at school. With the school year wrapping up, it felt like a good time for a handmade gift.
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June is more than half way spent, and our quilt is likewise more than halfway grown. Have you noticed that this quilt is fun up close (with playful fussy cuts) and from afar as well (with the stars)? It’s a satisfying combination.
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June has finally brought warm weather to The Netherlands. After an unusually long and cool spring, we’re feeling the sun on our legs and looking for some water to splash around in. Time to welcome summer with a new sundress!
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I’ve been savoring the process of sewing my last pair of Confetti blocks. Meanwhile, something has been happening that you’ve got to see. Come visit Elora’s make-believe fabric shop. Service with a smile!
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This week our goal is to sew 24 more economy blocks for our 72” square throw-size quilt. Week 1 was all about those star centers. With Week 2 you’ll sew the star points, which surround the star blocks to create stars. Exciting!
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