Bird appliques

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The musings of a child rearing craftaholic

Memory quilts speak to me, but they sing to Cecilia Koppmann. In her sweet quilt, “Desayuno”, each bird represents one of her past students. Her quilt, a closeup shown here, made it to …

EPIC FAIL! Darn! Pin It WeEkly #204! Fleur de Lis Quilts celebrates its fourth AnnIversary of Pin It Weekly in only 3 weeks! we were shooting for 25 pins a week... but I missed last week. Life got in the way, so to speak. I was thinking of trying to make two posts this week, but that won't be quite the same. It's a good thing I hedged a little, I think. Maybe my Mary-math just works the way I need it to. Regardless, no matter how many pins I count, the big day will come, right? My first pin…

You can create a mini quilt for both Bobby and Marcie using this digital PDF Download pattern. You will download and print the pattern yourself. This pattern features 15 pages of full color instructions and two applique pages with all of the shapes needed to complete your project using raw edge applique. Tips are included so you can successfully create mini quilts for both Bobby & Marcie. You can alter the applique pieces to make your bird special, such as making the legs short or long…

Strictly speaking, these are not my customers. My lovely mother does a lot of custom quilting for other people and every now and again she quilts something so lovely I have to show it off here. To be honest, most of the quilts she does are lovely, but we often forget to photograph them. We didn’t forget to photograph this little beauty though. I don’t know the designer’s name, nor the name of the pattern. Sorry about that. If I understand correctly, this is one of the first quilts this…

This beautiful quilt has come all the way from Germany. I am going to take plenty of pictures of this quilt but I can’t upload them until Esther has received her quilt. We are keeping it a su…

Pictures - You might want to check out this BOM - Here's mine so far and its only a 9 inch block. This year she has added a touch of embroidery to the pattern. I haven't done hand embroidery for years so this is gonna have to wait till I can get to town for floss. You can find more info on it here http://erinrussek.type

This new Butterfly pattern, "Caroline" is now available. This Crab pattern, "Jimmy" has been very popular. We have had many requests to do this same technique with different objects. Somehow we got busy with other things and that idea got put on a back burner. Then, a teacher that my daughter, Faith, is very close with got pregnant with her first child. Faith wanted us to make her a quilt. When they found out it was a girl they decided to do the nursery in purple with butterflies…

With a few simple steps and some advice from the experts, you can take the stress out of fusible appliqué and enjoy happy stitching.