Category Archives: free patterns

Quilts Made Modern blog tour all this week!

July 25, 2011 – 1:42 am

The fun starts Monday with books and special prizes given away at every stop on the tour. On Sunday, we’ll host the final stop with a prize extravaganza including Beach Glass sticky cubes, patterns, a Beach Glass kit and two 30-minute personal Skype sessions with Bill and me to give advice on any quilting topic [...]

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meet me at whipup.net

February 17, 2011 – 9:05 am

My friend Kathreen Ricketson kindly invited me to guest post over at Whipup today. Kathreen started Whipup many years ago and for a year and a half or so I contributed weekly to her blog before starting Craft Nectar. Although we have never met because Kathreen lives in Australia and I live in the US, [...]

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a quilt for the boy next door

January 22, 2010 – 1:29 pm

One of the great aspects of being a grown-up is watching children you know blossom. Such has been the case for our family watching the eldest of the boys next door grow up over the past nine years. His family moved next door in 2001 and we’ve watched him find his way through middle school [...]

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lickety split legwarmers

December 10, 2009 – 3:40 pm

When you live in a cold climate it’s all about layering. Until last winter I had thought that legwarmers, however, needed to remain in dance studios or revivals of the movie Flashdance. It was our daughter’s second grade classroom that changed my mind. For some reason her classroom was unbearably hot in the winter, which [...]

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nibble tray

December 3, 2009 – 7:35 pm

amazing styrofoam cup art anyone? I love a good men’s shirt to woman’s shirt refashioning diy network video clip of knitting a backgammon board for the player in your life

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