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How to Make Easy One Hour Reusable Grocery Bags with Shoulder Straps
My city has outlawed the use of disposable plastic grocery bags. And they charge for paper bags. Keeping a stash of reusable bags in the car has become a necessity. I’ll be honest, half the time I forget them in…
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Scrappy Trip Around the World
I managed to take a simple pattern, and make it much more complicated than it needed to be! That might have been justifiable, if I was simply trying to make a quilt without buying a pattern. However, this pattern has…
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Line Quilting
Quilting is the sewing that holds the quilt top, batting and backing together. There are a thousand ways to quilt, and millions of different patterns or motifs that can be used. This post contains affiliate links which means that if…
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Paper Piecing Tutorial- How To Make A Star
As you may know from a previous post, I made a quilt of paper pieced stars. I can’t just show off my finished project without also walking you through the steps. Giving you the skills and tools needed to make…
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Baby Star Quilt
Paper Piecing was scary and daunting. Until I gave it a try. Then, it was fabulous. Actually, that’s not technically true. I bit off waaaaaaaay more than I could chew with the first paper piecing pattern I chose. Paper piecing…
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How To Make Binding
Binding is the edging that finishes the quilt by sealing all the loose edges inside. I’ve split my binding tutorial into two posts: this is how to make binding, the next will be how to attach binding to your finished…
