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What a crazy, busy year it has been. With Covid , I had expected that my business would slow down, but thankfully, that has not been the case. It seems that many people who were stuck at home for months decided to clean out closets and found piles of t-shirts that they wanted converted into…
Read MoreHow many times have you been to a craft show and seen an item and said, “I could make that myself”? Of course, you probably never end up making it, and I know this because I have been guilty of the same thing. We don’t seem to want to pay the price for home crafted…
Read MoreAfter a very long summer which kind of left me with the doldrums, we finally have some fall weather. It is only in the sixties here after being ninety yesterday. I’m always in a quilting mood, but the cooler weather just makes me even more into it. And with cooler weather, or even sometimes not…
Read MoreI recently bought an embroidery machine so I no longer have to send out embroidery to be done. Sometimes customers want names and dates or other lettering embroidered in a square or in the top or bottom border and I can offer that service in-house now. My set-up price is $15 and that includes up…
Read MoreIt’s always fun when my customers post pictures on Facebook or send me photos of their graduate receiving his or her quilt. Here’s a happy graduate from Ohio. My husband and I once owned a hardware store and this particular graduate’s great-grandfather worked for us. He has since passed, but I was thrilled when her…
Read MoreIt’s hard to believe that another year has come and gone. 2017 won’t be my favorite year ever due to the flooding from Hurricane Harvey, but it certainly could have been a lot worse. We were blessed to get our house back in order in time for the holidays while many of our fellow Texans…
Read MoreThis is the time of year when college students are pledging fraternities and sororities. If you’re a new pledge, you probably don’t realize how many t-shirts you will end up with by the time you are out of college. You’ll have a t-shirt for every special event that your sorority or fraternity plans. And they…
Read MoreMy niece was getting married in Maine last week, so my siblings and I rented a large house and spent the whole week in Castine, Maine. It was such a beautiful area and there was a lot to see and do. However, as a quilter, I guess I have to admit that it is impossible…
Read MoreI might have mentioned in a previous blog that I had been working on some of my own quilts after the graduation t-shirt quilt rush had passed. Actually, that wasn’t quite true. I have a niece who is living in a long-term rehab facility with about a dozen other women. My mother pieced a quilt…
Read MoreWith Father’s Day fast approaching, I’ve been thinking about “man quilts”. A lot of people assume that men don’t really care to have a t-shirt quilt made, but you would be surprised how many men get excited about quilts. They are always fascinated when they come in my studio and see how the quilting machine…
Read MoreA few weeks ago, a customer came to me with a stack of different colored t-shirts, but they all had the same logo. She was concerned because all the t-shirts were the same, so I suggested that we offset the t-shirts to add some interest to the quilt. The idea came from a quilt called…
Read MoreWhat do you do if you don’t have enough t-shirts to make a quilt as big as you would like? I can help you with that. I’ve made several quilts using alternate blocks in order to get the quilt to the customer’s preferred size. Here a just a few of the different T-Shirt Quilts that…
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