The Baby is Coming
I’m 59 and this Grandmother is excited to see her Grandson this weekend. He’s 4 months old and I’ve not
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Choosing A Name for A Baby Quilt
Do you believe in “Once Upon A Time”?
The fabrics are just right, the colors for the baby quilt are the ones blend perfectly, all seams and points are matching, and you have the last stitches on the border in place. It is time to name the quilt.
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Fancy Quilt Binding
Fall in Love with a Fancy Binding
You have mastered the art of straight and bias binding but is there more than just a straight edge to your finished baby quilt?
Choosing a challenging binding involves time commitment, extra fabric, and some advanced planning to make sure the binding fits the baby quilt.
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Binding Us Together
Love is the thread that will continue binding us together.
In a baby quilt the binding is the last part that keeps those raw edges from showing and adds the finishing touches to your project.
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Coloring A New Baby Quilt
In my earlier life, the floor in my house was always covered with toys from my three wonderful sons and my lovely daughter. No matter how hard I tried to keep that floor clear, their creative minds had a new game or an invention that just had to be built or designed.
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Custom Handmade Baby Quilts Website
New shoes, new clothes, and new handmade baby quilt website. How every woman always needs another new pair of shoes or could use a new a brand new outfit or two, but designing that unique baby quilt website is not always on every women’s list.
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“Once Upon A Time…”
“Once Upon A Time…” I have told those tales and read those wonderful and colorful stories, as a Mom, to my own children hundreds of times when they were youngsters. Today, I finished a handmade quilt by the same name. I captured those special memories of reading to my children, in years past, in this special handmade quilt I called, “Once Upon A Time…”
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The Quilt That Warms You Twice
Finding the time to work on my handmade quilts in a busy schedule has always been my challenge.
In the last few years, my concentration has been on making handmade baby quilts, but the UFO of my blue and yellow queen sized bed handmade quilt kept calling to me from the closet – finish me – complete me – get me out of this closet already!!
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Birthday For This Grandmother
WOW! Another birthday for this Grandmother has snuck up so quickly.
If you are old enough to be a Grandmother, birthdays tend to show up all too quickly. But as I was reminded, the alternatives to birthdays are worse!
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Snuggling with a Grandson
To this Grandmother my most precious moments are those when my newborn grandson is in my arms. On these cold winter days, I have him snuggled close, wrapped in the handmade baby quilt that I had made many months ago.
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A New Grandmother
And baby makes three… Mommy, Daddy, and the new baby just arrived but wait… we need to count me, the new Grandmother.
This quilter has been designing handmade baby quilts, and has been collecting the wonderful stories of those ecstatic Grandmothers, who have purchased my handmade baby quilts have told or wrote to me about their new grandchild, now I have my own grandson to love, cherish, and design a handmade quilt for.
A New Embroidery Machine – Thanks to Kay.
New Embroidery Machine – Thanks to Kay.
Hand-stitching names and images or doing fabric crafts have always been one of my favorite pastimes. But as the popularity of the home embroidery machine opened new possibilities, and I could save time and effort while still allowing artistic flair in choices of pattern, size, position and color, my sites were set on owning one of the newest of the embroidery machines on the market. Looking at the home budget or my profits earned from the sales of the baby quilts that was not in cards.
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Handmade Baby Quilt Joins Black Friday
Handmade Baby Quilt joins Black Friday
As I sit and browse the many online and newspaper ads deciding on my strategy for shopping at 4:00 a.m. shopping on Black Friday, I am also reminded that there are many mothers and grandmothers, who are unable to make those crazy hours of shopping frenzy. So a handmade baby quilt can join Black Friday and bring Unique Baby Quilt shopping to you.
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Handmade Baby Quilt Tale – Home From Iraq
Handmade Baby Quilt Tale – Home From Iraq
Thanksgiving is upon us, and Veteran’s Day a step behind, we all take a minute to reflect on what we have to be thankful for and how many individual sacrifices it has taken down through the decades, to secure the opportunities we all share, to sit together with our families and enjoy a dinner together in freedom.
Thank you to all those servicemen and women, veterans or active today and their families, for your dedication and service to our country. Read this blog, about one of your own young men and his family…
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T-Shirt Memory Quilt
Memories are not always tucked in between the pages of a book. Today they are pressed in between the 20 squares finished on the t-shirt quilt. I am designing a t-shirt quilt for my daughter for her high school graduation. Amazingly enough the thoughts and good memories that fit into each 16 x 16 inch blocks were the t-shirts worn by my daughter as she participated in soccer at age 6, played volleyball in middle school, played on the traveling teams for soccer or on her HS teams.
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Designing Handmade Quilts for Children
Baby Quilt Design Puzzles
When designing a new baby quilt, there is material all over my sewing room. Once I settle on my pattern, then I can put away a few of the piles and choose the right fabric. But first I must contend with the blues to my right, greens to the left, and the soft baby pinks that are within reach straight ahead.
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