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Am I Backwards?

September 30, 2009

Who ever said you have to make your blocks first, then you borders?  Can you make you borders first?  Then make your blocks?  Yes, you can and I mostly do.  Since most of my quilts seem to have 7 or 8 borders, I often make the borders first.  I’ll lay the outermost top and bottom [...]

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Making Perfect Blocks

July 1, 2009

First, I’m adding the border posts to the side bar under “Free Patterns & Projects”.  Once I’ve covered all the topics I’m going to cover, I’ll post several charts that can be printed. I’m not saying my blocks are perfect (they’re usually NOT!)  but I do know how to get real close to perfect.  Do [...]

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Projects Are Taking Over

May 11, 2009

Projects are usually stored in the rectangular plastic cake carriers but they’re all full!  In addition, the design wall had pieces of five different quilt, another one was started yesterday and there’s a quilt on the longarm that has a very near deadline.  I truly feel like I’m running in circles!    The quilt I started [...]

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