Mom, you’re the best.

It was made to go with our thread catchers. I happened to have a little bit of fabric left over.

I used the whip up tutorial, and it was VERY easy. Only two concerns: 1)  I filled the pincushion with sand…because it sharpens needles, but I think the sand I purchased was way [...]

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Get your schwag here.
Read the rules carefully.
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The first five (5) people to respond to this post will get something made by me.
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make. You get what you get.
2. What I create will be just for you…if you have a blog I can mine for ideas, [...]

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I just love it! Too many wedding quilts coming up though, and it’ll be awhile before I get to this one…pics here appear in reverse order from sandwiched to pre-sandwiching with a cute little cat named Ingrid involved.
This marks the first completely joint project between me and Suz (a.k.a mom). The best part about it [...]

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Wedding quilt (1 of 2) pieced! Now comes the hard part…hand-quilting in time for an early August wedding. Putting that off for a little while, and now on to a cute little Mother’s Day gift…
Happy Sunday! Feels so dang good to just MAKE something sometimes. Very, very happy day.
 P.S. – for tutorial on making this [...]

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Here’s my most recent project with mom. How cute is it?!

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Kristen – kindergarten teacher extraordinaire – needed an apron for class. After heading to Joann’s one night to pick up some fabric, we got to sewing. Here’s the finished product:

“Fruit Tart” pattern was taken from the book A is for Apron by Nathalie Mornu. The book is insanely cute. Highly, highly recommended.

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Forget being a baby quilt…I want this quilt for myself! Perhaps you know about my serious hate relationship with sewing triangles in patchwork. If you don’t, allow me to summarize. It doesn’t matter what technique I use, I find triangles to be extremely tedious and unforgivable. Despite this, I love this quilt SO much that [...]

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You probably remember the sewing machine I got for Josie…it was a post not that long ago. Anyhow, just wanted to post a pic up of her very first project – a purse that we worked on together. Josie was the driver, while i guided the fabric. Unfortunately, the only kid’s sewing book that I [...]

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I taught ldk and k10 how to sew! Check out their (very admirable) first projects! How positively Martha

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