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Pimp Stitcher Amy Cluck combined a pattern from her newly released embroidery collection, Give a Hoot!, with Tamie Snow’s tutorial on how to make an embroidered plushie to make this little cutie. She also has an interesting WIP using her Sew What collection.…

I’ve been nutty about miniatures ever since young childhood, when a friend’s parents took us to an exhibit of museum miniature scenes of historic places. And remember that Twilight Zone episode where, after everyone falls asleep at night, the miniature family…

I love Pokey Bolton’s Quilting Arts Blog. I love getting peeks behind the scenes of TV shows. I love goofy outtakes. So Pokey’s latest post got me in the happy-funny bone. Check out the behind-the-scenes clips from Quilting Arts TV. My…

Mother Superior’s Blog says there’s a great debate going on about whether to use prewound bobbins for sewing, quilting, and machine embroidery. I haven’t heard any verbal fireworks yet, but I was glad to see the myths exposed and truth put…

Kathy York is rockin some experiments with batik that make me want to melt some wax and start dyeing. I love the way she’s combining etched designs with tjanting lines to get reverse images. Check it out.

Claudia of Stitchado Handmade blog is sharing hand-embroidery patterns for four spring flowers, just in time for Northern-hemisphere seasonal stitchery. Beautiful! Get the patterns.

Shebrews has posted an article on Feeling Stitchy blog that explains what cutter quilts are and how they can be used effectively. You’re going to love her ideas. See the post.

Pamela Quevedo of Needle Tatting and Other Nonsense blog has been experimenting with new designs she calls The Queen’s Feet and Ankle Corsets. As always, her tatting is impeccable and her designs are edgy, original, and young. Go see what she’s up to.

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Judy Laquidara of Patchwork Times blog is sponsoring a stash-busting mystery-quilt sew-along. The official prize is this pair of Gingher 8-inch dressmaker shears in the Glory pattern. The real prize is sewing along and ending up with a beautiful quilt top. But…

Ooooooooooo. Look what Jo in NZ is giving away: A book of images of some of her delicious crazy-quilted postcards. She says,

It is purely eyecandy. The  format would only allow 27 characters a page…so I wasn’t able to add explanations to…

Look what doe-c-doe is sharing with us this week: A darling vintage kitty pattern for hand-embroidery. You’ll notice that this pattern includes the word “Wednesday.” doe-c-doe says matching patterns for the other six days of the week are available from her…

Quilting luminaries Pat Sloan (shown here wearing her ultra-intimidating combat fish hat) and Margi Borck are recruiting quilting assassins. Really. Their new speed-quilting war game, Death by Quilt, is about to begin. If you are tough, competitive, and a lightning quilter, get over…

Amandajean of Crazy Mom Quilts has thrifty advice for quilters in these hard economic times: Piece your leftover batting! Amandajean even shows us how. See her post.

Have you been watching Guest Blogger Month over on Quilting Gallery? What a treat! Mishka is sharing her space with one excellent guest after another for a parade of interesting, useful articles. For example, Benita Skinner of Victoriana Quilt Designs published a piece…

Check out the latest free (for personal use) patterns from SharonB of Pin Tangle blog. Lovely as always, Sharon, and so generous. Get the patterns.

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