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Sew A Little Kindness 2025 Tutorial
Giant Flying Geese Blocks All things considered, the phrase “Giant” is subjective. At 8.5″x16.5″ (unfinished), these blocks are on the large side. The leftover, or off-cut, Half-Square Triangles (hereafter referred to as HSTs), are also on the bigger side. That’s okay. The Quilts For Survivors colors are black and white, while the Quilts of Valor quilt uses your choice of red OR flag blue along with white. Both QFS and QoV have guidelines for allowable prints, so choosing solids or batiks just makes things more simple. We’re using the stitch and flip method for our flying geese blocks. Fabric Requirements: 1 white fat quarter, preferably solid 1 black (red or…
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Sew A Little Kindness 2025
Welcome! If you’re here from scanning a QR code, you might already have some idea of what October 11th will be all about. If not, welcome! I am a sewist – creating clothing, household items and quilts. Getting together and sewing with my quilt guild friends ranks up there as one of my favorite pastimes. I always have a good time, even if I don’t get much done. Ahem. A few years ago, I rented out the local township building and invited all of my best girlfriends to come up to my little rural town and sew with me. Think sleepover meets dance party meets cooking class. Its not uncommon…
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Spring Violets Quilt
My third #dogoodstitchesabide quilt There’s a perfect moment in the spring. It’s usually after a good soaking rain. The flowers all bloom at the same time. Each home sits in their own little jewel-box of a yard, on a bed of grass so lush and green that it looks like velvet. It’s fleeting, because within days the dandelions pop up and the grass grows a smidge too long. Most people will pull out their lawnmowers at this point, but I will bargain and cajole my husband to hold off because the wood violets appear and I love them. Do a Google search and you’ll find varieties from the Atlantic to…
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Answering the call of the Orlando MQG *Edit* When I originally wrote this post, I don’t think anyone knew how large the movement would become. Eighteen months and 1800 quilts later, the Orlando Modern Quilt Guild’s initiative far surpassed anything that we could have imagined. I have the privilege of being friends with Alissa Lapinsky, the president of the OMQG at the time. She stored and sorted quilts for months from her small home, all while working a full-time job and trying to maintain some kind of normalcy in a community that was reeling. I admire her more than I can ever express. In 2017, QuiltCon was held in Savannah…
