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Keeping Your Kona Cottons Straight

In the spirit of Terri’s Best Practices posts, I had to share this with you.

I use a lot of solids in the quilts I sell. Solids do not come with labels on the selvage edges, which can make similar shades VERY hard to tell apart, even when you have one of those color cards (got mine at Pink Chalk Fabrics).

Keeping Your Kona Cottons Straight

Handmade Nation Screening

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco is presenting a screening of Handmade Nation on Sunday, Sep. 5 at 2pm. Tickets are just $8.

I’ve been wanting to see this, so I’m going to try very hard to make it. Hope to see you there!

Quilting Purists — Hand vs. Machine Quilting

Thanks so much to everyone who offered their thoughts last week on hand quilting versus machine quilting. If you haven’t read the comments, I highly recommend that you take a look.

Hand quilting on my Ducks in a Row quilt.

I loved Melinda’s

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Light Me Up Lamp Shade Slip Cover Tutorial

This is so easy you’ll be making these in your sleep!

As part of my Open House preparations I wanted to do a quick reversible makeover of the lamp shades in our bedroom. What better than little slip covers? These were SO easy to make that I’m

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Quilting Options — Are You a Purist?

I was talking with my father the other day and asked him how his new quilt project is going. He’s busy hand piecing the top, which he says will work out to be about 78 x 88 if all goes according to plan. When he gets it done, he’s planning on sending it to me so that I can quilt it for him.

Quilting Options — Are You a Purist?