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Catching Up
Happy New Year! I took a few wonderful weeks off for the holidays and am ready to pick things up full speed.I've just got to say that Santa is the MAN. He had this beauty waiting for me to pick up at...
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Quilt Fort
Well, this is all the progress I've made on my Fat Quarter Shop Mystery Designer Block of the Month (2012). Two blocks in two weeks. Kind of sad; however, it's not for lack of trying. I've been super...
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Checking In
Just a couple more weeks until I receive my sample yardage of my new line with Moda! I'm so excited to get my clutches on it. (If you hadn't already read my interview on the Moda blog, you can learn a...
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Starstruck
Last month, I got to spend some real quality-time with Momo's newest line with Moda: Avant-Garden. These colors are unreal!When I first laid eyes upon this collection, I just knew it was destined for a...
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Into the Woods
Into the Woods by Vanessa Goertzen of Lella Boutique for Moda.Showing in April 2014 and will be in stores August 2014.There may have been a little dancing when the UPS guy dropped this off last night....
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The Goods
When I was a little girl, my mother would tuck me in under my favorite quilt and tell me the story of Little Red Riding Hood. I’d close my eyes and imagine an enchanting backdrop of pine trees,...
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Baby Starstruck
Okay so I know I said in my previous post that I wanted to crank out more patterns in the new fabric (and I do!), but I've had a few unfinished projects sitting around that have been nagging at me...
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Cartwheels & Twinkles
Pssst. It's me. Lorenzo. I hope you haven't forgotten about me. (I'm the one Mom used to pose on quilts monthly during my first year of life.) Well, here are the last couple of pictures that Mom never...
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A Boy and His Quilts
As an addendum to the last post, I've finally compiled all of Lorenzo's monthly milestone pictures from his first year of life for your viewing pleasure. (He turned one back in January.) It's amazing...
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For the Love {PDF vs Paper}
So I have this problem...I don't know about you, but every time I go to buy a new quilt/sewing pattern, I experience this internal sort-of "wrestle" over whether I should buy the PDF download or paper...
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Quilt Market Pittsburgh 2014
Rose Red--a new doll pattern coming soon!Well, I've been home for a week now from quilt market in Pittsburgh and I had a great time. I was one of three (!) new designers for Moda and was so happy to...
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Mystery No More
Good news, kidney stones are gone and I am feeling so much better! I just got a couple major deadlines out of the way (next fabric line turned in!) AND finished up my Fat Quarter Shop Mystery Block of...
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Briar Rose
I'm so excited to share this baby quilt with you! It is yet another quilt made using my Starstruck quilt pattern but this time I've used fabrics from Windham's Briar Rose collection by Heather Ross. It...
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Rose Red
She's here! My first ever doll pattern is ready to download. I had so much fun making Rose Red and I especially adore her hair using my woodcut print from Into the Woods. Which is going to be in stores...
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Wolf Bait
It will likely come as no surprise to you that I keep finding myself sewing projects for children. Not only do I have a few little ones running around, but the inspiration for my Into the Woods fabric...
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A Perfect Match
Thread. Everybody who sews uses it but not everyone knows the difference between the good stuff and the BEST stuff. When you sew everyday like I do, it's imperative to use the best, so I have become a...
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The Big 30
It's my birthday, ya'll and I'm ALLLLL about the number 30 today. Speaking of the number 30, did you know that Into the Woods has 30 different prints? I guess it's a sign I'd better give some...
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My Favorite Bedtime Story
Thank you for the birthday wishes! I loved hearing about your favorite bedtime stories and how some of them have become family traditions. So neat! A big congrats to Lisa E. who won the fat eighth...
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Figgy Pudding {Free Pattern}
I have been meaning to make a Christmas quilt ever since I got my hands on Into the Woods yardage clear back in March. Five months later...The Figgy Pudding fat quarter pattern is here at last and the...
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Mixing it Up
I can still picture the day in third grade when the recorders were handed out (I remember them being called flutaphones?). One of the first songs we learned to play was "Hot Cross Buns". It's one of...
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