tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21827917027279189992024-03-28T20:29:39.589-07:00Quilting TogetherMindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06970084957371303919noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182791702727918999.post-87091211794298543192016-04-07T18:57:00.001-07:002016-06-27T17:06:07.844-07:00Charming Cherries Quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Wow! What a crazy couple of months it has been for me! Shortly after my last post I was asked to serve as a youth leader in my church. It's always a blessing to be able to serve, but it is also a huge time commitment. And since I've never served in this position before, it's a pretty steep learning curve! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I've never been a very timely blogger and sometimes I just feel like giving up on it, but I just can't! You see, there were a few precious blogs out there when I was learning to quilt that I always turned to for inspiration. And I want to give back to the quilting community that helped me so much as I was learning to machine quilt.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Since the demand on my time has increased and left me with next to no time for blogging, I have asked my 19yo daughter to help me out with my blog posts for a while. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I'll introduce you to her on my next post. In the meantime, I'll show you a quilt I finished around a year ago...(Eek! Yes, that's how far behind I am on my blog posts!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This cute quilt is a Quilt Soup Pattern called Charming Cherries. 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There are probably a zillion cute ways to quilt a pumpkin seed quilt. I hope you enjoyed seeing this one!</div>
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I just want to start out this blog post by saying Thank You to all of you who continue to read/view my blog! Despite the fact that my posts have been limited of late, you continue to show up. Thanks for not giving up on me. If you can't tell, I feel really guilty for not posting more. But, enough of the sob story. Let's get on with the good stuff!</div>
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My client, Sylvia, made this cute 16-patch (that's what I'm calling it, though I'm not sure if that is the correct pattern name) for her granddaughter. Sylvia is one of my clients who kindly gives me full creative control with the quilting, and after doing a bunch of edge-to-edge quilts I was ready to let my creative juices flow on this quilt.</div>
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This girl pieces more quilts in a month than I do in a year. And she is just one of the most genuine ladies I have ever met. (If you're on Instagram you can follow her @samanthaleeolsen). </div>
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I love straight-line quilting on this quilt. The simplicity of it shows off the colorful blocks. The<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2182791702727918999#editor/target=post;postID=2224391685791824222;onPublishedMenu=draftposts;onClosedMenu=draftposts;postNum=16;src=postname" target="_blank"> last Moda Building Blocks</a> I quilted was custom quilting and it took me around 40 hours to quilt. This quilt took less than a quarter of that time.</div>
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Big Charming is a modern quilt designed by Denyse Schmidt and made by Joni from Quilter's Haven. </div>
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She really liked the concentric circle design I did on a previous quilt, and we decided it would look stunning on this this quilt as well.</div>
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I love the simplicity of this quilt both in piecing and quilting.</div>
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Because this quilt was so large, I had to think 'out of the box' to find a quick and easy way to mark it.</div>
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It's funny how inspirational things around the house can be. I went from room to room looking for something to help me mark this quilt, and the garage door-of all places-is where I found my answer. </div>
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My garage door is attached to these metal strips (pictured below) that just happen to have equally-spaced holes. I took a trip to The Home Depot, and a few bucks later I was on my way to having this big guy marked.</div>
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It was a bit of a workout on my legs, but otherwise it was super quick and easy. (And you get to see my little helper cheering me on in the video below.)</div>
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Of course, I had to spray the quilt with quite a bit of water to get all the markings out, but doesn't 'Big Charming' look so handsome and ready to cuddle up with?!</div>
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Mindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06970084957371303919noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182791702727918999.post-4732769541474632232015-07-26T09:19:00.000-07:002015-07-26T09:19:17.215-07:00Sarah's Quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I met Sarah at the Quilt Bliss retreat I attended back in February.</div>
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She made this beautiful quilt for her mother to hang on her wall. She wanted custom quilting to add to the beauty of the quilt.</div>
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I love the flying geese border...</div>
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And the center medallion! </div>
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Ok, ok, I love the whole thing.</div>
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Detail of the teeny tiny pebbling.</div>
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Back in May I was asked by my client to custom quilt this quilt she made for a Kaffe Fassett display at HMQS. Here's a bit about it...</div>
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This was one of the biggest quilts I've custom quilted...and definitely the most colorful! I love it! </div>
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Honestly, I had so much fun quilting this (which I usually can't say about a quilt this large). I had no plan when I started quilting, other than to bring texture to the quilt. Because it's such a colorful quilt, I knew intricate quilting designs would get lost, so simple lines in various designs was my goal.</div>
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I took about a bzillion pics. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! :)</div>
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This gorgeous quilt was brought to me by the husband of one of my clients.</div>
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Richard does absolutely stunning handwork, as you can see! </div>
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I love the fact that he and his wife both quilt and compete against one another at the state fair.</div>
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They are both very talented quilters and are as sweet as can be.</div>
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I'll be honest with you, I struggled quite a bit trying to decide how to quilt this quilt. I knew that I wanted to really maximize the quilting on the white fabric, but after drawing up about 4 different designs I still wasn't sold on what I had.</div>
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The only thing this quilt really "said" to me was that I needed to frame the peacocks with an oval and then do filler quilting on the rest, but I just wasn't sure of what fill to use. Since this quilt felt more traditional to me, I decided feathers might work.</div>
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I went ahead and quilted out the first block, and guess what? </div>
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I wasn't in love with it. Ugh!</div>
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The peacock feather wreath seemed geometric enough that I decided a more modern back and forth line fill would suit it nicely. When I tried quilting feathers around it, it felt chaotic and cluttered.</div>
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The peacocks got the lovely quilted feathers on the outside of the oval frame and paisleys on the inside.</div>
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I encouraged Richard to not only enter it into the state fair, but also into HMQS next May. I'm not sure if he will, but I think it would do really well there. It's simply stunning in design and handwork execution.</div>
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Back in January I held a "Thank You" giveaway on Instagram.</div>
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You see, I joined the Instagram quilting community a little over a year ago.</div>
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Before then, I only had a small handful of quilty friends, and most were a good 20 years older than me. </div>
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When I started on Instagram, I'll admit I was a bit uncomfortable with the open format. I was used to Facebook, where you 'allowed' people into your life. This was initially true on Instagram, but then somehow people I didn't know started following me and commenting on my posts. I honestly was unsure how to react. It was cool, but could I trust these people? And they didn't even really know me, and I sure didn't know them! </div>
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So, in January, with the start of a brand new year, I decided I wanted to give back to the Instagram quilting community that accepted me with open arms. I did two drawings. The first was for 50% off a quilting job (custom or edge to edge). I'll be posting about that quilt in a few posts.</div>
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Natalie was the winner, and this is her quilt.</div>
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I had actually met Natalie once at a Modern Quilt Guild meeting, but until she dropped her quilt off to me I hadn't realized that we had met in person, even though we had been Instagram friends for a while.</div>
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Natalie's quilt was part of a Round Robin done by her quilt guild. If, like me, you have never heard of a Round Robin...each member does one border on each quilt. Because each person has a different style of quilting, each border is made to compliment the owner's style, and so each quilt turns out completely different. (There may be more rules to it, but this is my limited understanding of how it works.)</div>
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These Round Robin quilts were displayed at HMQS 2015 in Sandy, Utah. It was an honor to machine quilt this for Natalie. She is such a sweet person and a very talented quilter!</div>
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I had never made a Quilt of Valor quilt before entering this challenge.</div>
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I don't have any relatives in the armed forces, but I honor and respect those men and women and their families who valiantly serve and sacrifice for our country. I love the thought of giving something back to them.</div>
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For many reasons, including lack of time due to other commitments, I knew this quilt needed to be relatively simple in both piecing and quilting. But, I believe that simple things can sometimes be stunning, and that was my goal for this quilt.</div>
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I looked through my quilt books and patterns and found this simple Stars Over Ohio pattern in Sherri McConnell's book Fresh Family Traditions.</div>
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Quilting Treasures provided their Patriotic Pop and Salute to Summer fabric by Studio 8 and Liz Kolansky. I chose three different white-on-white fabrics for the background. I knew framing the stars with white fabric would allow me to show off my machine quilting.</div>
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All pieced and ready to be quilted.</div>
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I photocopied the pattern in black and white (for personal use only) and drew out different quilt designs before I loaded the quilt.</div>
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The motif inside the white area is a digitized design by Kimmy Brunner. I thought it fit perfectly with the 'star' theme I was sticking to.</div>
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I used one layer of Hobbs 80/20 batting and White Highlights thread by Superior (now discontinued but I still had some on hand).</div>
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<div><br></div>A little over a week ago, I was on my way home from a cruise and heard the news that my AdornIt Challenge quilt had won an award at HMQS in Salt Lake City. Sadly, I was still traveling when the awards ceremony happened, so I had no idea what award my quilt received. But the next day I managed to slip out of my class with Angela Walters for a few minutes to find a 2nd place ribbon on my quilt. Whoo-Hoo! <div><br></div><div>The challenge was to use the fabrics made and selected by AdornIt in a quilt of any size. I chose a pattern called Medallion out of Angela Pingel's book, 'A Quilter's Mixology.'</div><div><br></div><div>This was my first attempt at curved piecing. My mom gave me a curvemaster foot for Christmas, and that pretty much secured my success! This small quilt was seriously a piece of cake to put together.<br>
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<div><br></div><div>Just a quick pic to show how many tools and templates I used to quilt this quilt.</div><br>
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<div><br></div><div>The back shows off the quilting so well!</div><div><br></div>
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<div><br></div><div>I decided to add a little sparkle with crystals. It's a little hard to capture that sparkle on camera.</div><div><br></div><div>This was my first time using crystals on a quilt. It's crazy how much time they take to put on!</div><div><br></div><div>I was told by one of the judge's helpers that the judges thought I used too many crystals on the quilt. To each their own, right?!</div><br>
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I was recently commissioned to quilt off-center concentric circles on a customer quilt. I thought it fit perfectly with the quilt design, which was quite modern.</div>
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What most people don't realize is that this is one of the hardest designs to do on a longarm machine. It's much more doable on a domestic machine, because you can rotate the quilt and use the feed dogs to get accurate spacing between each circle.</div>
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I've searched the internet multiple times looking for the easiest way to accomplish this design on a longarm. The truth is there isn't any easy way.</div>
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The first, and most important, thing to do is mark the quilt, because you'll be loading it on a longarm quilt frame and will only have access to sections of it at a time.</div>
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I've marked my quilts two different ways. The first way is by using a string and a marking pen.</div>
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The following image is from <a href="http://www.sew4home.com/">www.sew4home.com</a>. They have a great tutorial on how to <a href="http://www.sew4home.com/tips-resources/sewing-tips-tricks/how-make-and-measure-circle-without-pattern" target="_blank">make and measure circles without a pattern.</a></div>
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In order to get the concentric circles, you'll want to use a ruler to mark the spacing between each circle (typically 1 to 1.5 inches apart). Then put your pen on each mark, pull the string taut, and pin or hold the string in the center of the circle.</div>
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The second way I have marked my concentric lines is by using a template. This takes a little more prep work. I had my husband create templates on Adobe Illustrator by creating circles and printing out a small wedge of the circles. Each circle has a different curve because of their different circumferences.</div>
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Once your quilt is marked and loaded on the frame, follow your marked lines to quilt each section.</div>
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You will have many stops and starts, because you're only working on one section of the quilt at a time. To make the stops and starts less obvious, try doing them at the pieced seam lines, as pictured below.</div>
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Mindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06970084957371303919noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182791702727918999.post-38064050352153192032015-03-08T20:02:00.001-07:002015-03-10T13:17:31.417-07:00Quilt Bliss Retreat 2015 at Timber Moose Lodge in Heber, Utah<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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It was a spur-of-the-moment decision to register for the QuiltBliss Retreat, and I'm so glad I did! It was such a fun and memorable experience. Every part of it, from the the lodge to the food to the games, teachers, classes, and of course the people, was fantastic! If you're considering going to a quilt retreat I'd definitely recommend QuiltBliss. I went not knowing a single person and left with lots of new quilty friends!</div>
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It snowed on and off the entire time we were at the lodge, but we were toasty warm inside!</div>
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There were around 50 attendees. All of us and all of our quilting gear fit in the grand room.</div>
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We had some amazing teachers and amazing classes at the retreat. </div>
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And I learned how to do decorative big stitching on quilts with JoyLyn Rigby. I didn't get too far with this class sample, so sadly no picture yet.</div>
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We also had a class with Camille Roskelley learning how to make her Saltwater quilt.</div>
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It was such a treat to get to hear the stories of her quilts and how she started her quilting business at such a young age with the guidance and example of her mother. </div>
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This last quilt was my favorite quilt of Camille's. It is a collection of many of her test blocks for her patterns. She was quite emotional when showing it (she wasn't the only one), as it is a culmination of her quilting journey. I think many of us quilters are sentimental about our own quilting journeys and what quilting has done for us.</div>
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One morning I slipped away to the peace and quiet of the hot tub. The view was spectacular. The wind was blowing the snow from the trees, which looked magical. But I was nice and warm in that hot tub all by myself.</div>
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This is one of the few projects I completed while at QuiltBliss. This is the Medallion pattern from Angela Pingel's book A Quilter's Mixology.</div>
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I took five or six WIPs and honestly thought with three days of quilting I'd finish more than I did.</div>
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This is my Thimbleblossoms Round&Round quilt (only one-third finished thus far).</div>
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Pamela Cardwell, the Executive Director of QuiltBliss loves Valentine's Day. Lucky us, we got a Valentine's Day party!</div>
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A few of my wonderful QuiltBliss friends.</div>
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Easiest quilt ever!</div>
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The hardest part about this quilt was giving it away! Seriously!</div>
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A blog post everyday for 20 days is very unrealistic for me...especially during the holidays! What was a I thinking?</div>
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This quilt is part of the reason I couldn't keep up to date on my blog goals.</div>
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This amazing quilt was pieced by Brittany from Quilter's Haven. </div>
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I still struggle with piecing sometimes, so when I see those perfectly matching points on a client's quilt, I am just in reverent awe.</div>
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This quilt caught me off guard when I started loading it onto the longarm frame. I had seen pictures of this quilt, because it was such a hit at Spring Market. But, for some reason, the pictures really don't show just how big it actually is!</div>
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<br></div>Mindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06970084957371303919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182791702727918999.post-20143118327563800922014-12-03T08:05:00.000-08:002014-12-03T08:05:04.999-08:00Post 19-Chocolate Quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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Well, after seeing this quilt you will be!</div>
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This Chocolate quilt was pieced by my friend Sylvia. </div>
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She always makes amazing quilts!</div>
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Each day of the week has a special chocolate treat:</div>
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Monday-milkshake</div>
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Wednesday-bon bons</div>
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Friday-chocolate bar</div>
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Saturday-triple layer mousse cake</div>
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Sunday-hot fudge sundae</div>
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At the beginning of 2014, I challenged myself to blog 50 posts this year. This would be easy peasy for many bloggers, but not for me! Believe it or not, I still have 20 posts left with only a few weeks left in the year!<br />
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I'm not someone who gives up easily, so like my post title says, I'll be posting a quilt a day for 20 days!<br />
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I hope you'll bear with me as I attempt to achieve my challenge for the year. Maybe you'll even find some quilty inspiration in these posts...that would be awesome!<br />
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First up is this fun and very personalized customer wall hanging. I love how she was able to record her favorite things in a quilt! This will definitely be a family treasure!<br />
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