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Now Touring: Scrappy Bits applique by Shannon Brinkley

August 18, 2014

Scrappy Bits applique by Shannon Brinkley of Bottle Tree Quilts brings a sense of fun and freedom to applique. The projects in this book are just like the crispiest potato chips…Can’t choose just one project to like, so let’s just do them all! Shannon covers all the important stuff from color and technique to tools and [...]

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In the Q-niverse Prayer Flag Project

July 10, 2014

Quilters and sewists are smitten by fabric in pretty much any form (and for any reason). We use it as much to express ourselves as to make useful items. Maybe that warp-and-weft conveys a message that we long to send, don’t know how to verbalize or may not even know we are sending. And fabric’s [...]

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To Market! To Market!

May 13, 2014

Pittsburgh, are you ready? A whole buncha people who drool over fabric and love to create are hitting your fair city, and yes, we Gen-Qers will have our place in the horde. For those who don’t know, Quilt Market is the bi-annual industry trade show open to quilt shop owners, fabric and pattern designers and other related [...]

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