Show and Tell… Birds in Toyland!

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Shirley Ratliff took my Birds in Toyland class online and she recently sent me this photo of her finished quilt. She changed the setting blocks and outer border to suit her style and she machine quilted it herself, using a variety of patterns. Don’t you love it?!

Shirley says:

This quilt always makes me smile. You encouraged us in the class to make it ours and that was fun! Fabrics were all from my stash. And I had a blast collecting sweet nothings for all the embellishments. 

I was new to needle turn applique when I started, and now it’s a favorite technique.  My absolute favorite part is doing the quilting. It was exciting to come up with designs for each block. Free motion and ruler work was done on my longarm.  

Thanks for such a wonderful class!

Shirley 

Thank you, Shirley, for sharing your quilt with us. You did an excellent job and I hope you enjoy this quilt for years to come!

If you are interested, click here to find the Birds in Toyland book.

Wednesday Giveaway – Last Chance!

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End-of-the-year inventory is mostly a pain. But occasionally you find a treasure you thought was gone forever. That’s what happened to us and, as a result, Melanie Rinks is going to be very happy!

Tracy Trevethan has closed up shop and we sold all the hand dyed wool we had left… we thought. Turns out we have two pieces left and we are giving them away this week.

I’ll be back with another Giveaway next Wednesday. Until then you can shop for all sorts of sewing notions, books, and other fun stuff at pieceocake.com!

Show and Tell… Welcome to the North Pole

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Julie Kiffin, who some of you will remember from the Liberty Quilt Shop, sent this photo of her North Pole quilt…

She wrote:

I made it to go with my North Pole building collection. It was an off and on project for many years and then I enjoyed embellishing it and hand quilting with perle cotton.

Thank you, Julie, for sharing your quilt! It is both happy and festive and I hope you hang it up every year :-).

If any of you are interested, click here to find the ebook :-).

Steve’s Birds Show & Tell…

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Marie Szlachtianshyn sent this photo of her Steve’s Birds quilt top. She says she wants to add a little more applique and then quilt it but I thought you would like to see it now :-).

I like the light sashing and the pieced outer borders… very nice! Thank you, Marie, for sharing your progress! I look forward to seeing this quilt when it’s all done :-).

Wednesday Giveaway!

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Planning a trip? Need postcards to send to friends – “wish you were here”, etc? What about a nice pocket notebook to record impressions and keep up with plans? Thanks to Rashida Coleman Hale, both of those are going to the winner of this week’s giveaway – Sarah Baker.

I’ll be back with another Giveaway next Wednesday. Until then you can shop for all sorts of sewing notions, books, and other fun stuff at pieceocake.com!

Wednesday Giveaway – Humphrey goes to eileenkny!

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Lorna contributed this to the giveaway effort after cleaning out her home craft drawer. Hopefully, one of you will enjoy sewing it yourself or using it to teach one of the children in your life to sew. Its Skill Level is Beginner and everything you need is included in the kit.

I’ll be back with another Giveaway next Wednesday. Until then you can shop for all sorts of sewing notions, books, and other fun stuff at pieceocake.com!