Oooooo. Look what Susan Elliott found! A keepsake Barbie in a crazy-patchwork gown! Enjoy the description and more photos on Susan’s blog, Plays with Needles.… Read More ...
Christmas-y CQ seam treatment
If you’re doing a bit of Christmas CQ stitchery, you’re going to want to include this seam treatment charted by Shawkl. Wouldn’t this rock as a multicolor design! Shawkl has posted quite a few new charts recently in her … Read More ...
Pincushion giveaway
Lisa of Ivory Blush Roses is celebrating her 100th blog follower by giving away three of her exquisite CQ pincushions. Go to her blog post to enter before 8:00 p.m. (Arizona time), Sunday, October 18.… Read More ...
Sunday smile
Gerry Krueger of olderrose blog snapped this candid shot of smiling Sheba, hard at work at a recent CQ retreat. Nice landscape block, old girl! See the post.… Read More ...
Free pattern: Thanksgiving CQ block
Janet Stauffacher of Nostalgic NeedleART is sharing this Thanksgiving crazy-quilt block. She says,
… Read More ...Print this block directly onto computer printer fabric with your inkjet printer, then use it as the foundation for your crazy quilt block with the center image
CQers: Don’t forget TDSiTM
The wealth of free seam-treatment diagrams continues at Shawkl‘s Twelve Dozen Stitches in Twelve Months blog. If you haven’t checked in lately, you should catch up! You’ll enjoy lots and lots of designs like this charmer. Go to Shawkl’s … Read More ...
August BJP from Susan Elliott
Susan Elliott has completed her August item for the Bead Journal Project, A Daughter’s Valentine. Exquisite. You’ll enjoy the story of how and why she developed the concept from sailors’ valentines. Go to the first post in the series… Read More ...
New tiny stockings from JO in NZ
Oh, my goodness. I’ve long been in love with the lace-embellished Christmas-stocking ornaments by JO in NZ, but she’s totally outdone herself with these. She says,
… Read More ...Simply beautiful as an ornament, or a unique way to present that extra special
Tutorial: Ribbon Alstroemeria
Oh, my goodness. Look what Susan Elliott has done now! She has come up with a way to make these accurate (but tiny) Alstroemeria from ribbon, perfect for adding to a CQ project. And she lets us peek over her … Read More ...
Free pattern: Birthday CQ block
Janet of Nostalgic NeedleART is sharing a birthday CQ block with vintage flair. Janet says,
… Read More ...Print this block directly onto computer printer fabric with your inkjet printer, then use it as the foundation for your crazy quilt block with the
Inspiration: Lisa’s viny seam treatment
Lisa of Ivory Blush Roses created this fabric postcard for a Stitching Fingers exchange. Check out the seam treatment nearest the top of the image. Along the edge of a bit of heavy lace she has stitched a simple vine … Read More ...
“Crazy for Quilts” winners
Great news from the Alliance for American Quilts:
… Read More ...The Alliance for American Quilts (AAQ) announces the winners of the “Crazy for Quilts” contest. The contest celebrates the spirit of the crazy quilt, a genre of quiltmaking which began in
SharonB in CQ overdrive
SharonB‘s Tumbling Blocks crazy quilt is going to be so freakin awesome. If you’ve been watching this series, you know the fabulousness of each crazy-quilted diamond. Now you’ve got to see her assembly process. Wow. Go to her blog … Read More ...
Giveaway from RibbonSmyth
Be sure to enter this month’s giveaway at RibbonSmyth blog. Vickie Adams Brown (the RibbonSmyth, herself) says,
… Read More ...Each month, I put together a gift bag of RibbonSmyth items and we send three gift-bags to lucky winners, as a way to
A lace CQ garden by Nicki Lee
This is what happens when Nicki Lee (goddess of hand-dyed lace) gets her hands on your crazy-quilt round-robin block. Nicki says,
… Read More ...When I received [Ellen’s] block I fell in love with it as it was BLUE! I immediately cut up