Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Crazy Shortcut Quilt Stories!
My friend Sara, in Abu Dhabi, made a childs tee shirts quilt. Sara has made so many CSQ quilts that I think she can make them in her sleep!! Here’s the story on her newest quilt: My sister was visiting and brought with her her children old tee shirts and asked me to put it…
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Quilt Photos!
I have a great email from Amy Palmer Henry, showing off her second Crazy Shortcut Quilt! Amy said that this one features a zigzag stitch, but she’s just gotten a new sewing machine with tons of decorative stitches and they sky’s the limit for her next quilts 🙂 Almost immediately an email came in from…
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Bunny Helper
I haven’t shown any pics lately of our bunny. Here he is on the painted concrete floor in Arizona, when I was making myself another custom quilting table.
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Rotary Cutters – Holding and Safety
I have been meaning to make this video for a long time. What prompted me to finally finish it was seeing two instances, in the past week, where quilters were holding their rotary cutters in a way that actually makes it harder to cut, and watching one quilter cut toward herself – which made my…
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A New Quilt Design
Hi Quilters, we found some quilt inspiration on YouTube! This quilt was inspired by a video that I watched on YouTube and that I talked my daughter Sarah into making. She loved it so much that she made about five different tops! Check back here regularly because I’ll be playing with new designs on the…
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Three Awesome Pinwheel Block Tutorials
I recently met (online, via her blog) Sandi of Piecemeal Quilts. She and her friend Jeanne have challenged each other to post some really useful tutorials on basic blocks in quilt making. They are starting with a Pinwheel Block and I have to say, it’s one of the best tutes I’ve seen on the internet.…
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Sew & Quilt in Comfort
Introducing my newest book – a work of love! You may have read some of my posts, or seen the photos, of my “Custom Sewing Table”, which I’ve also called my “Cheap Sewing Table”, well, now it’s a book. The short backstory is that when our book proposal (Crazy Shortcut Quilts) was accepted in 2006,…
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One of These Things Doesn’t Belong Here….
I love Sesame Street! My youngest sister, Nicole, used to watch it when it first came out and my daughter Sarah watched it 27 years ago and now my granddaughter Audrey watches it. Hurray for PBS! They used to have this song, about one of these things not belonging….I can’t get it out of my…
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More Quilts from Michelle and Crazy Postcard Tute
Michelle sent me pics of her newest baby quilt and she even made a Quilted Birthday Postcard after following Katrina’s Tutorial on how she made hers from her Crazy Shortcut quilt scraps! I think Michelle has made about 4 or 5 of these “Shortcake” Quilts – she’s awesome!
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My Design Wall
***UPDATE*** I have been getting a LOT of requests for specific information on the design wall fabric that I buy. Here’s the label from the bolt of my most recent purchase: I started digging through some unfinished projects recently and put some on my design wall, then I thought I’d make a video about the…
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