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The Curious Kansas Quilter: February 2015
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The Curious Kansas Quilter. Saturday, February 28, 2015. Yep - Forest Quilt Along. Facebook can be dangerous - we all know that. It's especially dangerous for someone like me who is addicted to Block of the Month quilts. I follow several groups on FB - one of them is "For the love of paper piecing". That's me! I love paper piecing - foundation piecing to be more descriptive and to differential this technique from English Paper Piecing (which I also love and for which there is also a FB group). I'm writin...
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The Curious Kansas Quilter: Sisters - Shopping, Classes, and Quilts Galore: The Ultimate Quilting Experience
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The Curious Kansas Quilter. Monday, July 13, 2015. Sisters - Shopping, Classes, and Quilts Galore: The Ultimate Quilting Experience. I am still in overwhelm mode. It was AWESOME! I just got back from 10 days of everything quilt related in Sisters Oregon - the 40th Anniversary of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. I flew into Seattle and BFF Bobbie and I packed up her car (full! Our condo was at Eagle Crest Resort. The piece de resistance of the week was the outdoor quilt show on Saturday. The town of Si...
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The Curious Kansas Quilter: What Do You Do When You Get Stuck?
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The Curious Kansas Quilter. Wednesday, June 3, 2015. What Do You Do When You Get Stuck? I'm feeling stuck - paralyzed. I go down to my sewing room and scores of projects call to me, but I just don't feel like working on any of them. I don't really even feel like starting a new one. Maybe I'm sick or depressed. Or maybe I need a break. Or maybe I need a nudge. I could also tidy up some. I've been working on a very detailed applique pattern and I have scraps of fabric and bits of fusible all over every...
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The Curious Kansas Quilter: Quilting Habits
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The Curious Kansas Quilter. Thursday, April 30, 2015. Well, the Kaw Valley Quilt Show is over and I feel I can take a few deep breaths and figure out what to do now. It almost feels like one of those dates like New Years, Birthdays, First Day of Spring - you know, those days when you think about resolutions and new habits. I have started reading a book Better Than Before. So here is my list of Starts and Stops. Most of them are obvious to quilters. Start . . . Prepping for next session. Kaw Valley Blog (...
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The Curious Kansas Quilter: April 2014
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The Curious Kansas Quilter. Friday, April 11, 2014. The Ultimate Learning Quilt - Stitcher's Garden #1. I am about to put the binding on the largest quilt I've ever made - 90x100 inches! Not only is it large in size, it's also large in learning. Stitcher's Garden is a block of the month quilt I teach at Mea Bernina. I've been working on this sample for over a year and I thought it might be interesting to write about everything I've learning while making this monster quilt. And OESD's Fuse and Fix. My...
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The Curious Kansas Quilter: Gallery
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The Curious Kansas Quilter. Amy's Quilt - Chocolate is a Girl's Best Friend. I intended to have it finished for her Freshman year at Northeastern, but she will get it for. Her Sophomore year - only a one-year delay! The chocolate and other fabrics were purchased in the Seattle area and my good friend Bobbie embroidered the chocolate motifs. Chocolate was machine quilted by Kathi Eubank of Hard Candy Quilts. August 22, 2015 at 3:45 AM. Especially the Jewel Squares in blues; you are such an inspiration!
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The Curious Kansas Quilter: Foundation Paper Piecing - An Enchanted Forest by Janeen Van Niekerk
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The Curious Kansas Quilter. Saturday, May 2, 2015. Foundation Paper Piecing - An Enchanted Forest by Janeen Van Niekerk. I love foundation paper piecing! The best way (IMHO) to get accurate points and seams especially when working with small pieces. I do foundation piecing almost exactly the way Karen (from the video) does with a few exceptions. Instead of pinning I use either a dab of glue stick or a piece of blue painters' tape. A BOM from Sarah Vedeler, and Enchanted Forest, a BOW by Janeen Van Niekerk.
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The Curious Kansas Quilter: A Few Last "Present" BOMs
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The Curious Kansas Quilter. Wednesday, January 7, 2015. A Few Last "Present" BOMs. OK, before I move on to the BOMs I want to do in the future (or the ones I plan on starting tomorrow LOL), there are 2 last "current" ones I should write about. The first one is the Sedona Star, a Sarah Vedeler. Design I wrote about in my last posting. Sedona Star was The Quilt Show. Cutter to cut some of the applique shapes. The first few months went smoothly. The foundation piecing was right on. The Accuquilt-GO! Worked ...
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The Curious Kansas Quilter: January 2015
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The Curious Kansas Quilter. Monday, January 19, 2015. A New Year - Some New BOMs! January. A new year. Resolutions. New Projects. NEW BOMs! OK, so given the fact that I have so many ongoing BOM, it's crazy for me to think about starting any new ones, right? But there are soooo many gorgeous quilts out there just waiting to be created. I am powerless to resist. At this point there are three BOMs that I have committed to. There may be more later, but right now there are three. So, now I had this great cent...
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The Curious Kansas Quilter: Tula Pink Update
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The Curious Kansas Quilter. Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Is a fabric and pattern designer I have been following for a couple of years now. Her patterns have a simplistic, modern sensibility to them and I would describe her fabric as whimsical with juicy colors. When I saw her book 100 Modern Quilt Blocks, I knew I wanted to made them. Every. One. Of. Them. So I asked members of my quilt guild - Kaw Valley Quilters' Guild. To participate in a sew along. Best thing ever! We started in January (see my earlier post.
