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Come vote for my entry in the (MQ) Quilt Design Star contest at Creative Crafts Group.  I'm number 83 and you may vote once per day. You can find the entry here: Frosted Stars Quilt Please facebook, blog and tweet this to your friends.  I really want to win.  Until next time,

Needles as you know should be changed every four to six hours of stitching, but that is not the case with if you a Titanium-coated needle.  These new titanium-coated needles have an ultra thin coat of titanium nitride layered on the surface to extend their productive life by five to eight times that of conventional needles.  Imagine having a needle that will last 40 to 60 hours. This is equivalent to saving 80% on the cost of needles. Can be used on home machine and long arms.  Here are two needles that I would recommend for piecing and quilting.   Quilting The quilting needle has a tapered point for stitching through multiple layers and across seams. The shape of the point minimizes damage to the quilting fabric. Topstitch The topstitch needle has an extra large eye and a much deeper groove for use with either heavier fabrics and/or heavier threads. It can even accommodate doubling of threads for more pronounced stitching. Until next t...

Since my article in Quiltposium summer edition entitled Finding Acceptance in A Woman's World I have been welcomed into the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild.  What a great group it is. I feel very welcome in this group.  The president  Jacquie Gering of Tallgrass Prairie Studio ran up to me and give me a big hug.  I just love this woman.  I had been following her work for the last five years and we had talked over e-mails, but never in person.  That was until the quilt guild.   This guild is only a few months old and has a great eclectic group of people from young to old and everything in between.  They bring all different forms of quilting together to make up this modern quilt group and I love it.  Last month at guild we did a pot holder swap.  Each person was to bring two pot holders of any size any shape.  You might remember my two pot holders from this post .    Side note: I had forgot my pot holders at hom...

I went shopping this week with my friend Amy and look what I found.   Fleur Nouveau by Dan Baker for Clothworks Modern Meadows by Joel Dewberry for Free Spirit  I got this off the internet.  Flutterby by Tula Pink for Moda. I posed this question on Twitter.  Name this fabric line and as a bonus name the block that I'm making? One person called the block tangled strips.  Thought that was kinda funny with the mess the blocks are in. It's Blush by Basic Grey for Moda and the block is Dresden.  Here are my two Asterisk blocks for my Fresh Modern Bee for Jennifer. Clyde Frog was sliding down the banister and having a little fun.   Until next time,

Last week we learned what a scant 1/4" is and how to achieve it on your machine. Thais week we are going to take a look at how the different weights of threads will also play a role in your scan 1/4". Bradie of A Quilty Kind of Girl has done an excellent post on thread weight .  Since I'm not trying to reinvete the wheel here I'm going to send you over to her blog to take a look at this.  Don't forget to go back and quilt along with her Summer Star Sampler Quilt Along.  It is amazing how thread will effect your scant 1/4".   My thread of choice is Aurifil 50wt for piecing.  It has little to no lint and you don't even know it's there once you sew your stitch.  Do I match my thread to my fabric when I piece?  You, bet I do.  Nothing worse then having a seam show and it stick out like a sore thumb because it's a different color than your background.  I match my background color. SHOCKER ALERT:  For those of you that have foll...

I could not wait any longer.  I just had to show you. My PTS3 pillow.  I wounder who is going to get this?  Maybe it is you? I almost don't want to give it up.  Almost. Until next time,

We all know what a 1/4" is, but how about a scant 1/4" inch and how do you sew a scant on your  machine?  To me a scant 1/4" is a couple of thread widths shy of a true 1/4".  This way when I press my fabric open in one direction or the other it is a true 1/4".  It took me years to learn this.  My seams were always just a hair bigger than the 1/4" that I was striving for.  It drove me nuts.  I went around asking people, "how do you get a 1/4" seam on your sewing machine?"  The answers I got from people did not help me at all.  Not one bit.  More than one person told me they don't use a 1/4" for piecing or they just eye balled it.  No help there. Another person said that they just used the 1/4" inch stitch on their machine.  I had been doing that, but it was still off.  Yet another told me to keep moving my needle position till I got the seam allowance that I was looking for.  With this answer I was getting clos...

Pot holders for my KCMQG tomorrow night Until next time,

Have you seen it yet? It's here! Rush right over and check it out! Quiltposium summer edition Until next time, BTW you can find me on page 44