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My Free Aurifil Mini Pattern and Free Motion Quilting

I was thrilled to be the Aurifil Designer of the Month for October. I designed a free mini quilt pattern using a little bit of curved piecing. You can find the free quilt pattern on the Aurifil blog right here. The lovely Pat Sloan made her own block using my pattern, and you can see that on her blog...

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GIVEAWAY! Amanda Murphy Quilt Patterns!

Blossoms quilt pattern with Veranda fabrics In honor of her guest post today on Buttons and Buttonholes for my Sewing Back-to-School guest post series, Amanda Murphy is giving away a 6-pack of her new quilt patterns!Amanda also has a new fabric line, freshly released for Robert Kaufman fabrics, called Veranda. I've actually used some of her patterns,...

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Quilt As You Go – Within a Quilt As You Go

So I am testing the 'Blossoms' quilt pattern from Amanda Murphy Design (she has a ton of new quilt patterns coming out, and they are exceptional!). I made her Garden Paths quilt at the beginning of the month. I don't know if you feel this way ever, but I feel very frustrated when it comes to the actual quilting/binding...

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Sneak Peak: Decorative Dining

One of the napkins (they'll all have different borders)!So, we are currently house-hunting. My sewing friend, Amy Lou Who, is making things for a sewing swap right now, and that put a little seed into my head, so I decided to make some place settings and napkins from this awesome (free!) pattern over at Amanda Murphy Design. The pattern...

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