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by Kristin Gassaway on May 3, 2023
NOTE: these blog posts for the Aurora quilt top are part of a limited series for our Block of the Month subscription program. Sign-ups for the Aurora BOM are no longer available. You can learn more about our upcoming Block of the Month subscriptions here. Hi friends! We’re back for month 3, and this month we’ll ... |
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by Kristin Gassaway on May 3, 2023
Hello Friends! NOTE: these blog posts for the Bountiful quilt top are part of a limited series for our Block of the Month subscription program. Sign-ups for the Bountiful BOM are no longer available. You can learn more about our upcoming Block of the Month subscriptions here. I’m so excited for this month, because we finally ... |
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by Kristin Gassaway on April 3, 2023
NOTE: these blog posts for the Bountiful quilt top are part of a limited series for our Block of the Month subscription program. Sign-ups for the Bountiful BOM are no longer available. You can learn more about our upcoming Block of the Month subscriptions here. Hello Friends! Hello again friends! I hope you all enjoyed making our green leaf blocks last ... |
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by Kristin Gassaway on March 30, 2023
NOTE: these blog posts for the Aurora quilt top are part of a limited series for our Block of the Month subscription program. Sign-ups for the Aurora BOM are no longer available. You can learn more about our upcoming Block of the Month subscriptions here. Hello Friends! I have loved seeing so many Facebook posts ... |
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by Kristin Gassaway on March 15, 2023
NOTE: these blog posts for the Aurora quilt top are part of a limited series for our Block of the Month subscription program. Sign-ups for the Aurora BOM are no longer available. You can learn more about our upcoming Block of the Month subscriptions here. Hello everyone! I’m so excited to have you all join me for our Aurora Block of the Month quilt. This quilt will be sent to you in NINE installments, so to go along with that, I’ll ... |
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by Kristin Gassaway on March 6, 2023
Hello friends! It’s finally time to begin making our leaf blocks. We have a lot of them in this quilt, and we’ll be taking them one color at a time over the next few months. This month we are all green! This month is a bit unique because our green leaf blocks come in two sizes. Each size is made using the same steps and techniques, and I’ll show you how it’s done. Most of the instructional photos I’ll be showing you ... |
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by Kristin Gassaway on February 8, 2023
Hello everyone! I hope you are all enjoying this BOM so far. This month we are back to adding some elements to the center of our quilt, which means we’ll be making lots of flying geese this month! There are many ways to make flying geese, and over the years I’ve used a couple different ... |
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by Kristin Gassaway on January 4, 2023
Hello friends, and Happy New Year! I’m excited for 2023, and hope you are too! I hope this year brings you all new beginnings, wonderful adventures, and lots of quilting! For our third month’s blocks we will be making eight of these cute little 4-patch Sawtooth Star blocks. I just love them! After making these I thought to myself how fun it would be to use this pattern and make a scrappy quilt entirely out of these blocks, but of course ... |
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by Kristin Gassaway on November 30, 2022
Hi friends! We are finally at the end of our Open Skies Block of the Month. Can you believe it?! Now that all our blocks and sashing our finished, it’s time to assemble and finish this quilt once and for all. I think some of you may have already started doing this last month, and I love it! You’ll just be one step ahead of the rest of us. We’ll start by sewing the rows together first. There is a diagram ... |
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by Kristin Gassaway on November 30, 2022
Hello Friends! I’ve enjoyed seeing everyone’s first blocks on the Facebook group. If you haven’t joined yet, it’s not too late! This month we’ll be making just one block, five times over. We’ll begin by making a square in a square center for the block. These can sometimes be tricky, especially because they involve some unusual ... |
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