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Quilt Infidelity: Cheating on My Stash with a Free Pattern

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Full disclosure: This is a strict mental exercise. I'm window-shopping another designer's layout in three entirely different outfits, because building a massive sampler in real life right now sounds like a cry for help. "Star Light, Star Bright" is a free sampler pattern by the Andover Design Team for Andover Fabrics, made to show off Edyta Sitar’s Secret Stash Favorites collection for Laundry Basket Quilts . It's free, it's theirs, and I'm grateful it exists: Star Light, Star Bright pattern (PDF) The original is Blue Willow and Chestnut — beautiful, just not my palette. Here's the quilt as Andover designed it: So I did what I always do when a pattern catches my eye: pulled fabric and dressed the whole quilt in it. Three palettes, three genuinely different directions. Not just copying Andover's homework with another basic color swap of the same exact idea, because what's the point of that? Here are the three palettes — the quilt itself, yo...
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Well, hello again.

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It's been years. This blog has been gathering digital dust while I quilted, sold sewing machines, quilted some more, and generally lived my life offline. I'm Charlie Scott. I quilt — 30+ years now — and I spent 19 years selling Husqvarna Viking sewing machines, which means I know my way around a feed dog and I'm not shy about saying so. Star blocks on the design wall: the Starfish pattern by Fig Tree & Co. So why wake the blog up now? Because I've got a project I'm dreaming out loud over, and I want somewhere to do it that isn't an algorithm's slot machine. There's a free sampler pattern — "Star Light, Star Bright" by the Andover Design Team — and I'm playing with a recolor: modern blues, swapped blocks, and a sashing glow-up I'm a little bit obsessed with. Here's what you'll get around here: modern quilts, works in progress (messy middles included), real talk about what works and what doesn't, and 19 years of sewing...
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Happy Rainy Wedneday

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Hello my friends, How is every one?  Below are some projects that I have been working on. This quilt has been on my design wall for over a year now.  Feels good to get it finished.  Now, for Thomas to work his magic on it.   This is a sample I made to display at work using  Floral Elements collection # 260 from Husqvarna Viking.  This collection is versatile and the design elements can be combined in a variety of unique combinations.   The start of a sampler wall hanging to be placed at the top of the newly carpeted stairs. Until next time,
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Earth Day 2015

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Happy Earth Day!  Today I had breakfast with my friend Pat at the Corner Cafe.  I just love waking meeting up with friends.   This was me today. The front and back yard. Found this Starling in my back yard today.  She did pick a strange place, but who I am to judge. Late lunch / early dinner with Thomas.  Yummy fabrics from Pink Castle Fabrics  They are Bonnie and Camille Basics Stash Box! I can see a quilt or two coming from these.  What did you do on Earth day? Until next time,
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I'm Baaaacccckkkk

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Wow, the last blog post was on January 11, 2014.  In the coming weeks, I will share with you why I have been away. Have you seen that I have been posting to Pinterest ?  Lots of neat stuff.  A few of my board are: Chip off the Old Block (Quilt Blocks) Pillow Talk (Quilted Pillow Tops) Off the Wall (Table Runners) Quilts, Quilts, Quilts. And many more. I have posted a nice  article from Wall Street Journal about Sewing on Qubee Quilts Facebook page. Check it out. Just to show that men really do sew, I leave you with the following images. Until next time,
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Plotting a return

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We here at Qubee Quilts have been away for too long.  Charlie and I (Thomas), are planning on a return to the blogosphere.  Charlie will continue to show off his designs and whatever is rattling around that pretty little head of his.  I will be sharing some of my work with my longarm machine, as well as trying to learn new ways to quilt. I think that sharing our work and new ideas online will help us both be a little more creative than we have been lately, and maybe inspire others to be more creative too! More soon, Thomas
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Teen Books & Quilting

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I saw a book list that was entitled 25 book you might wish to steal from your teen and I thought I would check a few of them out because I have a fascination with young adult fiction.    Dead End in Norvelt By  Jack Gantos Jack thinks his summer is over until his mother volunteers him to help a neighbor. He discovers a mystery behind his unusual assignment. Okay for Now By  Gary D. Schmidt   Doug Swieteck must overcome a deadbeat father, an older brother who steals from him, a brother returning from the Vietnam War and being the new kid in boring Marysville, New York. A Long Way from Chicago By Richard Peck A shotgun-toting, cherry-bomb-throwing grandma, a corpse that doesn’t seem to want to stay in its coffin, bandits, ghosts and other exciting adventures await when two city kids spend summers away from home. Half Brother By  Kenneth Oppel   When Ben’s dad is doing research into animals and ...
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