Monthly Archives: October 2023

A Sad Week

Sometimes the news of the week is so blinding and incomprehensible, there are no words. My heart hurts. My head hurts. I just don’t understand how humans are capable of so much destruction in more than one place. The fact … Continue reading

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Free Quilt Pattern – Call of the Wild Grizzly Bear

Travel to the back country of Northern forests with this week’s Free Quilt Pattern, with a scenic panel featuring a landscape-within-a-landscape and a Brown Bear on the move. To make this 62″ x 51″ exclusive quilt design, you will start … Continue reading

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Leah’s Fox and Hare

This week I am sharing another paper-pieced quilt from the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham UK. This very clever original quilt (Top-Center) highlights the story of the Fox and Hare, with a vertical mirror image featuring the fox on the … Continue reading

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Free Quilt Pattern – Steampunk Portrait

A luminous dreamy visage gazes out from a Steampunk collage in this phantasmagoria….a flight of fancy with rustic gears and spiraling tendrils emerging from a mysterious dark background. To make this 60″ x 68″ quilt design, you will start with … Continue reading

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Cats, Girl Scouts & Capt Picard

As you may know, eQuilter has had an exclusive line of digital printed fabrics for years now, with hundreds of products in our Rubin Design Studio collections. We got another shipment this week, and if you are a Cat Lover … Continue reading

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Free Quilt Pattern – Through the Forest Light

This breathtaking Autumn scene features the magical light of the Golden Hour, with a luminous glow filtering through red, orange and yellow leaves. A herd of deer pause to survey the viewer (you!) with a harvest scene in the background. … Continue reading

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Helen and the Mermaid

Tonight I am sharing an image of this stunning paper-pieced quilt made by Helen Creasey – and exhibited at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham UK in August. This large-scale (life size) mermaid portrait was designed, constructed and machine quilted … Continue reading

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Free Quilt Pattern – Winter Solstice

Fall is gently blowing through the trees and into our neighborhoods, which meansthe Holiday season cannot be too far behind. Perhaps you are already dreaming of that first snowfall, and those winter months stitching by a crackling fire with a … Continue reading

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