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Crossing Paths: Free Quilt Pattern

Crossing Paths: Free Quilt Pattern

Rich colours of autumn make an opulent-looking quilt, yet the straight-edge pieces put the “Crossing Paths” pattern well within the reach of a beginning quilter. Here, “Crossing Paths” is created in Andover Fabric’s gorgeous “Daylily Days” line of quilting fabrics, both designed by Renée Nanneman of Need’l Love. The pattern uses a total of 25 [...]

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Free Quilt Patterns

Free Quilt Patterns

Anna Maria Horner’s inner gypsy had to have been at play when she designed her 22 Lollipops Quilt and Bohemian Quilt — and the fabric collections that inspired them, too. And that’s just a wonderful thing, for lovers of color and pattern… Even more wonderful, these two original quilt patterns are both free for your [...]

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Free Baby Quilt Pattern

Free Baby Quilt Pattern

If you’re thinking of getting into quilting, a baby quilt or wall hanging is about the right size of project to begin with. Fat Quarter offers a number of free quilt patterns to download and print, including the simple yet interesting Baby Four-Patch Quilt. It’s a great way to use up any odds-and-ends of fabric [...]

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Funky Chicken Pin Cushions

Funky Chicken Pin Cushions

I haven’t mentioned it for a while, but the hunt for the perfect pin cushion continues… to go to the birds… Web-Goddess gives a nice clear set of free illustrated instructions for sewing up a set of funky chicken pincushions, and they do have a certain appeal. A traditional take on the same basic idea [...]

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A Quilt of My Own

A Quilt of My Own

I’m not a quilter, myself, but I did enjoy some time this week surfing quilting sites, in search of yardage information I needed to buy backing fabric for an inherited quilt top. It was pieced by my late mother-in-law, shortly before her descent into Alzheimer’s disease stole her ability to work at the crafts that [...]

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