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This month I am the tour director for my Round Robin Bee group and the subject is sewing curved seams. Sewing curves may be intimidating but with a little practice and some patience you can tuck this technique into your tool belt and produce some unique and beautiful blocks. The old fashioned “Orange Peel” block […]
Here is the next border for the round robin hosted by Patchwork Posse. This is a fun project, with a new border added every other week. That means I am only two borders behind. Yikes! The holidays flashed past and here I am looking at the second week of January. How did that happen? Of to the sewing
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Honeysuckle! Hmmm….every Honeysuckle bloom I have ever seen has been yellow but maybe I am leading a sheltered life. Pantone, the great Wizard of Color, has named this beautiful, strong pink “?Honeysuckle”. The 2010 color of the year was turquoise and we certainly saw that color in quilting fabric, home dec and clothing. So, prepare
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Several times a month I drive into San Francisco to work as a docent, leading tours of the lovely Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. I love this old building. It was the first building constructed in Golden Gate Park, and opened to the public in 1879. The Conservatory is a wonderful place to spend
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I love this ruler. It is a tool that helps make perfect half-square and quarter-square triangles. The ruler is marketed by the June Taylor company, and no, I am not being paid for this endorsement. I love simple tools that make a quilter’s job easier. If you have ever tried making dozens of quarter-square triangles from paper templates, you