Paper Piecing
A FAVORITE POST One of my favorite posts and discussions at The Inbox Jaunt was September’s post on Feed Sacks. The stories and comments generated were quite nostalgic and often funny. (I loved the stories about the teenage boy clerks who would have to move bags and bags of meal in order to get the right fabric…
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Happy Monday, Quilters! I hope you have some free time today, this week, this month… Earlier this month, in our Saturday series, Seamstresses in Fine Art, we looked at Hans Heysen’s portrait of his wife. It was a favorite among readers of The Inbox Jaunt and we heard from several of you who live in…
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Last Saturday, in our Seamstresses in Fine Art series, we featured this beautiful portrait, A Girl Sewing by Danish artist, Vilhelm Hammershoi. Today, our friend Peggy is offering a 55 piece pattern of this lovely girl for YOU to make. The finished size of the pattern is 20 x 21 inches. Girl Sewing Color Chart…
Paper Piecing
Good Morning, Quilters! Thank you to all those who left comments yesterday. Seems everyone feels the same way–we must enjoy gorgeous weather whenever we can! Today, we are continuing with the July theme: Roses. We started with Nora’s Rose: A Free Motion Quilt Pattern…and Nora’s Rose a vase quilt. Then we enjoyed a Monet painting…
Paper Piecing
In honor of Independence Day, Peggy created this gorgeous Fireworks Paper Piecing Project in red, white and blue! UPDATED: July 4, 2014 Note from Peggy: People who are not using the templates as such for the Fireworks project have asked for a full sized line drawing (“Foundation”, in paper piecing terms) so here that is…
Paper Piecing
PAPERWORK MONDAYS As you may have heard me complain…I do paperwork every Monday…bills, filing,phone calls. I allow myself t0 blog or stitch only when my other “Inbox” is empty…UGH! Over the last several weeks, our friend Peggy has changed the meaning of PAPERWORK MONDAYS: —She has created several original Paper-Pieced quilting patterns from The Inbox Jaunt photos! Now “Paperwork”…
Paper Piecing
Paper Piecing
WEDDING WEEK SCHEDULE CHANGES Happy Monday, Quilters! It’s Wedding week here. I will be busy with final details and nowhere near my computer! I planned to have the Tuesday Tutorials scheduled for posting, but that never happened. Please forgive me…the next Tuesday Tutorial will be on June 3. …there’s plenty of programming here at…
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PEGGY WORKS HER MAGIC We are in for a real treat this week! Peggy created a fabulous new paper pieced pattern for readers of The Inbox Jaunt. This pattern was based on Theodore Robinson’s “October Sunlight” (Read more HERE) and is from The Inbox Jaunt’s Saturday series: “Seamstresses in Fine Art”. NOTES FROM PEGGY There…
Paper Piecing
FROM PHOTO TO PATTERN Remember this photo from Silent Sunday? Peggy R has worked her magic on it and created a Paper Pieced Heron for all of us at The Inbox Jaunt! This gorgeous pattern can be made with only nine colors! (For those of us who are newbies to paper-piecing, that seems manageable!) You can…
