I love tools – good tools. When I interviewed Terry White recently for my column, Telling Your Story, for our local Scripps Howard newspaper, as I was leaving she gave me a pair of these scissors. “Try these and see what you think,” she said. I thought that was sweet of her to give me…
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Gelatin Printing
I’ve been wanting to try this technique since I saw it on Quilting Arts TV last summer. I knew we’d be snowed in today so I got all of my stuff together yesterday so I could start playing this morning. We first need to make the gelatin plate. Here it what you need to make…
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I’ve been working on organizing my craft/woman cave. I have put together three shelves and a new craft table and organizing all of the crafts into bins and storage boxes. I’m almost done! Yeah! The other day I brought up from the basement all of my sewing stuff. I know I’ll never sew down there…
Read MoreSquare-agonals Giveaway
Giveaway Closed – Congrats to Halle Gustafson from Chanhassen, MN! Square-agonals: A New Angle on Quilting, a new book published by Landauer Publishing is written by Sandi Blackwell, quilter, teacher, and business owner. In this book, Sandi shows a new technique for creating diagonal-set quilts without the complications of adding setting and corner triangles. Square-agonals…
Read MoreFabric Embellishing Fun
I was sent this book, Fabric Embellishing – The Basics & Beyond several months ago for review. I didn’t mean to sit on it so long, but I wanted to make sure I spent enough time with it to give it an adequate review. When I first opened it, I spent a couple hours turning…
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