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Jean N and her Hawaiian Tee Shirt Quit
Jean wrote to me a while back about her collection of gorgeous tee shirts – she made a gorgeous quilt from them! The shirts on the quilt represent 16 years of taking my fourth grade students on an annual study tour of the Big Island of Hawaii. Although there are only 15 blocks all 16…
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Jean Knapp’s Quilts
Jean texted me (to my email) months ago with pics of her quilts and notes about them and I have to admit that I know so little about phones and texting that I had no idea how to open any of her texts until today. Seriously. Here’s her message and pics – finally! Hi, first…
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Jean’s Modern Quilt-As-You-Go
Jean sent me a pic of her quilt, made from our book Quilt As You Go {reimagined} and I just LOVE it! The quilt is made from 9 fat quarters, cut along the length of the FQ and the quilted blocks are joined with the same fabrics as the top, making the joining strips nearly…
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Curves By Jean
Jean Knapp send me these photos of her Drunkard’s Path quilt blocks that she put together using quilt-as-you-go, isn’t it gorgeous? There are a lot of patterns and tutorials for doing curved piecing, and I believe there are even templates for making the Drunkard’s Path block. Here she combined 4 blocks and then quilted and…
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Two Quilts from Jean
Jean sent pics of two of her Crazy Shortcut Quilts – aren’t they lovely!
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Three Awesome Pinwheel Block Tutorials
I recently met (online, via her blog) Sandi of Piecemeal Quilts. She and her friend Jeanne have challenged each other to post some really useful tutorials on basic blocks in quilt making. They are starting with a Pinwheel Block and I have to say, it’s one of the best tutes I’ve seen on the internet.…
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Bunny Update
My friend Ferne reminded me that I haven’t posted about the bunnies lately – thanks for the reminder Ferne! We have more bunnies. Our neighbors called a few weeks ago and said that they were rescuing some baby bunnies that had been separated from their mother by someone who traps the rabbits and takes them…
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My Super Sunday
Granny’s Closet, Jodi, Judy W, Desertsky & Garnet Rose, I *did* go out for a wonderful walk yesterday, after everyone’s urging and it was GREAT! I walked on the beach in the salt water, listening to it splash onshore (bundled up in my parka and ExtraTuffs!) Still, the sun was out and it was great!…