Category Archives: Quilt Fabric Panels

A Little Quilt Therapy’ll Do Ya

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My kids are on spring break.  While this is a time for many students and families to run off a play for a week, my kids get to stay home and enjoy some down-time interspersed with doctor’s appointments.  It’s the only time we can fit them into their busy schedules unless we want to pull them out of school – and none of them want to be pulled out of school!

Spring break for this mom means no time to quilt.  I want to spend time with my kids.  It’s supposed to rain (GAH!  the mud!) most of the week so they’ll be stuck inside, when they’re not at their doctor’s appointments.

I decided I would carve out 30 minutes each day to sew.  Sunday evening was my first night of this spring break experiment.

I am making a 10″ block (finished size) lap quilt.  Super simple. I already had the fabric (from AbbiMays.com, of course) and the squares cut out so I sat down at my sewing machine and put together nine squares.  Just nine.  This little bit of piecing constitutes one-fourth of my quilt top (sans the borders).

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How fun!  If I use those 30 minutes a day wisely, I can complete the quilt top on day five by adding the first border and adding the second border on day six.

HalleQUILTlujah!


Flashback Tuesday: I Believe in a Card Holder

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There are so many wonderful quilt fabric panels on the market this year, one of them is just calling YOUR name so you can make this adorable “I Believe in a Card Holder” from BOMquilts.com’s 2010 Christmas in July quilt project:

Here are some wonderful panels, and Abbi May’s Fabric Shop *always* has prices market at least 10% below MRP so you can purchase some coordinating yardage, too:

Christmas in July 2010 free pattern – I Believe in a Card Holder from BOMquilts.com


A Quilting We Will Go!

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I have an amazing longarm quilter, Meloney Funk, who is a friend in every sense of the word.  She takes my quilts and quilts her magic.  Her quilting enhances every single quilt top I send to her.  I just received a baby quilt from her this past week and had to blog about it – HAD to!

Here is the quilting from the back of the quilt:

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And here is what she quilted on the front:

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Maybe when I grow up, I can learn to quilt like Meloney!


Baby Quilts Galore!

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I am not drinking the water.  Nope.  I refuse.  I already have four teenagers in the house (pray for me!), I do not want nor need a baby in the house, too!

But, that doesn’t mean I don’t love babies – and making baby quilts seems to be a niche I’ve enjoyed and even thrived at over the years.  Right now, I have two baby quilts in-the-works.  One, I am just beginning to sew the borders on (it’s a panel) and another is already quilted and just waiting for the binding.

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Got Babies?


Flashback Tuesday: Golden Royal Layers designed by BOMquilts.com

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Since we have been celebrating “Christmas in July 2014” at BOMquilts.com, I thought it appropriate to flashback on another holiday quilt gem from our “Christmas in July 2008” selections – “Golden Royal Layers“:

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This finished out to be an absolutely gorgeous quilt…I just wish I remember who I gifted it to!  LOL

Try making it with your favorite holiday fabrics that are on the market now, but be sure you find a fabric that has the fabric panels as that’s one of the things that really makes this quilt stand out!