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In honor of Valentine's Day, I put together a quick foundation pieced heart that can be made into a wall hanging, a table runner, or if you like, you can just add it to your library of paper pieced patterns. I made the sample that you see here with...

Two Reminders! You must enter by midnight tonight (ET) to be in the draw for Double Wedding Ring. We designed some New York Beauty borders just in time for the sale ending tomorrow.

Meet my new love. My new lovey dovey love pillow. I love it. It's Valentine's Day week- I can totally say love that many times. I've h...

Hello all! Doing well? I hope so. So, I think I'm suffering from a little bit of blogger's block. For weeks I've logged onto to Typepad and I've just sat there staring at the blank page not knowing what to...

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Mah-jong is usually played with little tiles (like dominos) made of plastic or ivory and wood. Here is a card version of the same game, on People's square. Shanghai, April 2010, taken by Delphine. notrechine.uniterre.com

"Ombre" style quilts are some of my favorite. It's a fun way to squeeze a lot of colors into one quilt...while still maintaining a cohesive "look" and style. They're fun and wild, but also logical and sophisticated. At one point in my quilting journey, I thought that ombre quilts were too modern for me. However, after

Who has free quilt patterns? (Well, we do.) But many of our authors do too! We’re always reading author blogs to see what they’re up to, and we’re wowed by the stories, tips, and free quilt patterns they share with their readers. So today, we’ve rounded up 18 free patterns from a group of exceptionally …

Funoldhag's quilts - in no particular order - made over the last 30 plus years.

When I first shared these paper pieced pompom blocks last month in the monthly bees and BOMs round up, many of you were rather impressed, for which I thank you! But they’re really not the tricky -all I did was use the very popular paper pieced flying geese pattern. If you look carefully, you can […]

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For the Classic mode of Bejeweled Twist, see Classic (Twist) and for the mode in Bejeweled, see Normal. For the mobile port of Bejeweled 3, see Bejeweled Classic. "Play the original untimed game." — Game menu description from Bejeweled 3 "The original untimed game." — Bejeweled 2, game menu description. Classic is the primary game mode featured in the Bejeweled series. This mode does not have a time limit. The aim is to swap gems to make a matching set of three or more gems of the same color. On

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click all pictures to see them better Our family has been playing a game called SPLIT for at least eight years and we recently ran out of score sheets and the cards were Cheeto-stained, bent and in pretty bad shape (like me some days). So we grudgingly opened a new box (I had bought a couple when the company folded) but no one could bear the thought of throwing away the old cards. This project is born from happy memories meets uncharachteristic sentiment (we're usually pretty cold-hearted about stuff). I prepared the cards with a thick layer of gesso applied with a palette knife. You waste a lot less this way than if you use a brush and spreading is quick and as easy as buttering bread. This is a great time for mark-making so etch into some of the gesso. I mostly made hearts as they're easy. You can make marks with the back of a paintbrush, a skewer, pencil, stick - whatever. Drying time. *sigh* The bane of my existence and I've gotten weird about preferring natural air drying over using my heat gun. Why? It seems more stable to me. And I'm a nut. Anyhow... Since I wanted to maximize what was accomplished during my (eternal) dry time I spritzed them with spray ink. This is a very unintentional step. Don't stress it. Some will look good, some will pool and muddle and look bad. It's all fine. Once it dries gesso and ink combine and the results are rarely recognizable from what you see at this stage. Then, just for shits and giggles I splash around some alcohol ink. Love this stuff. Never used it as intended. I just splash, splash, splash the stuff all over my projects and then grin at it like the Cheshire Cat. It's good stuff. Covers everything. Spreads like a zombie virus. Win all around. Here's one batch of cards. I did one craft mat (official distance measure in my house) worth of cards at a time. Waited an hour or three until they were safe to move off onto the table (Still very sticky, but moveable) and then made another set. It took all day but all 104 are now prepared. I sorted them according to the ones that were awesome and the ones that sucked. I'd dress it up but that would be dishonest. Me: Suck. Suck. Really, Nicole? Suck!!! Awesome. Everyone come see this, it's so cool! Suck. Suck. Good. Like it. Like it. Like it. Um, no. Then in my traditional backwards way of doing things, I started with the ones I hated so if I wrecked them, they were already destined for the trash and it would fall under the 'no harm no foul' rule. They were ugly. As you can see in the pic above (left side), my gold alcohol ink (just found it in a box) made brown splotches. Not even brown really, more like puce. Ick. So I added some ink, spread some large mica flakes and did my best to salvage them. Now I luuurve them. So pretty and fun. No Cheeto stains. Here's the first dozen or so: Thanks so much for visiting! If you'd like a print out of the quotes I used on these cards please click this download link. Special thanks to Carla Devine for creating this document.

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A half square triangle is one of the most basic (and easy!) quilting pieces. Learn to make them with step-by-step pictures and a video! HST's can be used to make a large variety of quilt blocks.

Learn how to make this simple sawtooth Star quilt block! This classic quilt block is beginner friendly and is modern and traditional.

I was happy to be invited to join the Art Gallery Quilt Block Collection Blog Tour hosted by my friend Sharon McConnell of Color Girl Quilts. Art Gallery has a collection of videos available on YouTub

I figured if I’m going to make more box chain crafts, I might as well organize them into a tidy series. Not that I’m tidy. No, that is something I strive to be but have yet to master. But it is a goal, and it’s good to have goals I hear, no matter how lofty....Read More »

I truly find it hard to believe that it's already MAY! I guess the saying is true that time flies when you're having fun! This month I want to share a series, or actually just a bunch, of simple but beautiful quilts that I finished recently. Some are community service, some for baby showers, and one pair was for my kiddo. Then, I have a special surprise at the end! Here we go... My son, who will be a whopping 15 years old next month, has two twin beds in his room. For several years now, they've had some comforters I purchased for him that were really more appropriate when he was younger. I saw a space-related panel from Kaufman at Linda's Electric Quilters, showed it to my son, and SOLD... he requested two of them for his beds. He also picked out the backing, thread color, and quilting pattern. The quilting pattern is called Orbit e2e, from Wildflower Quilting. They turned out so perfect for him and his room. Overall view of one of the quilts. Here, you can see the backing fabric that he picked. Shot of the twin quilts on his beds. Next up, a series of baby quilts that I quilted for a couple of friends. The first two are cute, baby colors, and fairly standard quilt patterns... one a rail fence with sashings, and the other is four-patches on point, with sashings. I used Tidepool E2E from Wasatch Quilting on the rail fence, and abc dotted font pano 001 from Sweet Dreams Quilt Studio on the four-patches. Both turned out super cute! The third one pictured below consists of flying geese in multiple sizes. This is my learning moment to share this month. We had settled on using Anita Shackelford's Modern Curves pattern, but the quilter didn't want it to go straight up and down or side to side. I thought, "No problem! I'll just set it at an angle and quilt it that way. Easy peasy." HAHAHA! It wasn't quite as easy as I had pictured in my mind. Setting the pattern at an angle caused me all sorts of extra work, where the pattern lines didn't make it all the way across in the quilting space, so I had to do a lot of rolling and matching. It did come out beautifully in the end, and she loved it! Rail fence overall view. Rail fence closeup. Back of rail fence. Overall view of four-patches. Closeup of four-patches. Back of four-patches. Cute fabric! Overall view of flying geese. Closeup of flying geese. Back of flying geese. Puppy paws! Now I just want to share some community service quilts that I quilted for a friend. A rail fence and two with simple squares sewn together (one with a heart worked in). On one of the squares, I made sure to use 80/20 batting, because the fabrics were homespuns, which tend to be very fluid when being quilted. 80/20 batting tends to be a little more "grabby" with the quilting fabric, which helped a lot to keep everything straight and square. And I love the backing on that quilt... a really nice cheater print with lots of motion to it. The quilting patterns I used, respectively, are gdaisyfaste2e from Stitch Happy, Orbit e2e again (same as above), and swirling hearts pano 002 from Sweet Dreams Quilt Studio. A few lucky folks will be receiving some lovely quilts! Rail fence overall view. Rail fence closeup. View of back of rail fence. Overall view of homespun blocks. Closeup of homespun blocks. Back of homespun blocks. Cute cheater print! Overall view of heart blocks. Closeup of heart blocks. Shot of the back of the heart blocks. Last set of photos for this month, and they're worth the wait! A fabulous quilter sent us some photos of a miniaturized Halo Medallion Quilt that she made! It's approximately half size from the original quilt, at 41-inches square. The quilter's name is Betty Chouinard, from New Hampshire, and her quilter is Flo Verge from Vermont. All I can say is, "WOW!" The fabric selection is gorgeous, the work is beautiful, and the quilting is outstanding. Betty named the quilt Hallelujah, and it won three ribbons at the Amoskeag Quilters' Guild show recently: Overall Viewer's Choice, Viewer's Choice Special Category, and Vendor's Choice. She plans to enter it in more shows coming up. Good luck, Betty! It's a beautiful quilt! Overall view of Hallelujah. Closeup view of Hallelujah. Second closeup view of Hallelujah. I hope y'all enjoyed these quilts that I've shared this month. See you soon. Keep on quilting! Jenny

A classic red love heart emoji. The red heart ideograph is traditionally used for expressions of love and romance across many cultures, with this being ...