Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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New Quilt Pics!
Stella made her fourth Crazy Shortcut Quilt! On this one, she writes: I have shown the back as it has a rather lovely fabric with ‘wols’ (owls) on it. I went a bit over the top and added two more designs which I knew she would like. One of the seaside to remind her where…
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Quilt Class in Palmer, Alaska
Do any of my local friends have a building space or know of a building space that could be used for a weekend quilt class? My friend and fellow Crazy Shortcut Quilting teacher Joanna Stokinger and I are fundraising for her daughter Tessah get to Japan. We will be teaching a multi-day t-shirt quilt class…
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Quilt Pics from Linda & Christine
Christine made this bright and lovely Crazy Shortcut Quilt. She had emailed me a while back asking how to handle some oddly cut fat quarters and I gave her my best suggestion: use them as they are (badly cut, very uneven sizes) and trim the quilted blocks to a uniform size. This is something I’ve…
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For My Rabbit Loving Friends
Sarah sent me this video and I just love it – it’s too funny to not share 🙂 If you read my blog regularly you will know that we have had pet rabbits for years and they have free run of the house. Occasionally we’ll take them outside in an enclosed area to run and…
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Michelle Made the Jelly Roll Quilt!
Michelle and Joan are about the two most prolific Crazy Shortcut Quilters that I know, besides Sarah and myself and I love the fact that each of them sends me photos!! This is Michelle’s version of the Jelly Roll Red & White Quilt that I made (video here) and I just love her soft colors.…
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More Quilts!
I love to receive photos in my email!! Angie in Canada sent me these of her quilt, and she blogged about it! Diane B in Eugene Oregon posted her quilt to her blog and sent photos of her pink quilt and this note: First of all, I have had your book for ages just kept…
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Book Giveaway!
Hi Quilters, my friend and quilt artist Gene Black is having a book giveaway of my new book, Finish (almost) Any Quilt. Gene even wrote up a review of the book, so you can see what he thinks of it 🙂 Gene Black is one of the many quilters who inspired me to write this…
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Using Kindle Fire to Read Quilt Books
I’ve been working on two new quilt books for a year. One is done and available as a print book and as a Kindle Book, specifically formatted for the Kindle Fire. While testing the book on the Fire, I found out how to make the photos bigger so I made a video about it. The…
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Borrow Crazy Shortcut Quilts Book from Amazon.com!
If you have a Prime Membership to Amazon.com you can borrow our book, Crazy Shortcut Quilts, for free!! Download the sample to your Kindle (or Kindle for PC app, or Kindle for iPad app) and you’ll be offered the chance to borrow the book – then start reading!! Again – you must have a Prime…
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Stella’s Quilts and Story
Stella sent me photos of three quilts and a story about one of them. Her first email had the words that I love to hear: Hope they are useful and will add to your web site if you can use them. All have glaring mistakes but I love each one mistakes and all. I just…
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