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April 30,2012 Sophie returns from lunch to construct her log cabin block. What a fun lunch the quilt shop had for us, we made a taco salad in small corn chip bags. Talk about an easy lunch to serve for a group…this idea is a must for my recipe box. Not only was the food we ate [...]
Of course you don’t – what a silly question! Does a Fisherman ever have enough rods/reels/hooks and flys? Does a craftsman ever have enough woodworking tools? We can always find some new tool that just came out on the market, or some tool that a Quilter friend has and loves so we would like one [...]
April 25, 2012 Our first lesson we learned about the essential quilter supplies needed to get started, but other supplies such as straight pins, a ripper, scissors and thread are now needed as we begin working with the fabrics for quilting. Saturday is here again and today is the day that I get to use my new [...]
If you are a beginner, quilting can be a pastime that requires some organization – right? As a Newbie, are you finding out that you don’t have a place to put everything? Hopefully I can help you just a little. If Sophie is going to get involved in quilting, she will have to be on [...]
April 23, 2012 Last week at Sophie’s “First” quilt lesson she learned about the basic quilter supplies. She knows that there are alot more on the market, but these were the essential ones to start out with. Why do weekends go by so fast? It’s Monday again. The drive into work was uneventful…which is a good thing considering… [...]
Lee Ann and I have had discussions regarding the difference between a quilt template and a quilting ruler. The best I can do is make reference to Webster’s Dictionary. A template is “….something that establishes or serves as a pattern”. A ruler is “….used as a straightedge or for measuring”. And, that is exactly what our quilt [...]
April 19, 2012 Sophie is ”pumped” after seeing the beautiful quilts that her instructor Linda has made. Bring on the quilt lessons, she wants to learn how to sew quilts! Linda had us introduce ourselves and tell if we have any quilting experience. Most of the ladies were “Newbie” quilters like me. A few had tried sewing some squares together, [...]
How many of you like the word “free”? Most of us do and sometimes “free” is easy to find. Where can you find free quilt patterns? If you are like me, you keep getting subscriptions to various quilting magazines and they are always loaded with patterns. As these magazines accumulate and pile up, I go [...]
April 16, 2012 The day has finally arrived that Sophie takes on the Quilting World. Friday night after I got home from work, I called my friend Barb to let her know that I had taken the plunge and signed up for quilt lessons, the first one was tomorrow. She was excited and wanted to hear all [...]
Two common questions I have often been asked are – “how long have you been teaching quilting……and …..did you teach before moving to Lake Gogebic?” I’ve been teaching quilt lessons since 2003, and “no” I had never taught quilting before and never dreamed I would be a quilting instructor. A friend of mine, Lu, was [...]
April 11, 2012 Hi! I’m Sophie and recently I signed up for my first beginner quilting class, bought a new sewing machine and crossed off a “goal” on my Bucket List, it was a great week. Now that I have all the necessary tools for my class, comes the task of finding the right fabrics [...]
A quilting design wall is mainly made up of flannel placed on some type of frame or backing “board”. The flannel helps to make your cotton fabrics for quilting cling to it. You can move the pieces of fabric or blocks around without attaching them with pins. However, once you sew some rows together, you [...]