Reviews: Generic ruler foot and Acorn Easy Press Fabric Treatment

  I’m working now on a large trapunto, almost-wholecloth quilt with some random piecing inserts and I’ll be using ruler work for the trapuntoed circles. Here’s a test piece, a trial run on which I’ve tested the circles and played with various fills: I also took a great ruler work class at the Folsom Meissner…

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Welcome Miss Zoe!

Meet Miss Zoe, our first girl dog: Miss Zoe is a 2 yr old rescue retired racing Greyhound from the Greyhound Adoption Center in El Cajon, CA (southern California). She came from the Caliente track in Mexico. Apparently she won 3 out of her 4 races so it is a mystery why she was put…

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I forgot!

It’s bedtime and I haven’t written a post! I simply forgot. But hey, at least my frig is full! It’s actually even more full than when I took that photo, and there will only be 5 of us! It took a few days of this and 5 trips to the grocery store in 24 hours…

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Houston 2019, Part 3: More Quilts!

This is my final post for Houston. My photos loaded oddly and are not all nicely grouped by category and I was too short on time to arrange them properly. You will still enjoy the quilts out of order! SAQA had an exhibit, 50 Years of Innovation. I loved that exhibit! It was filled with…

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Houston 2019, Part 1: Market, New Products and People

Houston 2019 is a wrap! This year was my smoothest ever and I didn’t forget anything major – that’s a win right there. It is hard to convey in words the excitement of being at Market and Festival. It’s the world’s stage of quilting and there is a lovely feeling of unity that pervades both…

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