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Why Does It Take So Long to Make a Quilt?

November 19, 2019
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Other than pricing, the question I get most often is “What is your turnaround time?”  Invariably, the second question is “How long does it take to make a quilt?” That’s a loaded question that is almost impossible to quantify due to the different steps being done at different times and the variables as to type…

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Making Quilts in the Merry Month of May

May 27, 2019
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Wow, the time has gotten away from me. With all the graduation t-shirt quilts, I haven’t found much time for anything else during the month of May. However, I did want to show you some quilts I pieced at my last retreat before my next one comes up. Both of these are donation quilts for…

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Happy Graduate with Her New T-Shirt Quilt

June 18, 2018
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It’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…

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Quilting with My Sisters

March 19, 2018
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I seem to be on a family theme the last few blog posts, and yet, I have one more. My sisters and I take a “Sister Trip” every year and last weekend we went to Dallas for the Dallas Quilt Guild Quilt Show.  They apparently have a big active membership because their show is the…

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Start Thinking About Graduation Quilts Now

January 22, 2018
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This year has started off with a bang for which I am very grateful. We are currently scheduling for the end of February. So, if you would like to have a t-shirt quilt made for your senior for graduation, now is the time to start making plans. My turnaround time is four to six weeks,…

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A New Generation of Quilters

January 8, 2018
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Quilters love to share their love of quilting with others and teach them how to piece quilts. I made my first quilt when I was nine years old, so it was appropriate that my granddaughter do the same.  I handed her two sets of five inch squares, otherwise known as charm packs, and let her…

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Mesquite Bean Fabrics

April 3, 2017
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Another quilt shop that my friend Linda and I visited in San Antonio was Mesquite Bean Fabrics. Funny name for a quilt shop, huh? As they explained to us, it is because of the many mesquite trees in the Texas Hill Country and surrounding areas. And the tree produces beans. I’m not sure what that…

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Quilting and Sightseeing in San Antonio

March 21, 2017
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I took a trip to San Antonio this past weekend with one of my quilting friends, Linda Minton. She actually lives in San Antonio, but we rented a hotel room on the famous Riverwalk so we could both have a little get-away. We visited five quilt shops, some of which I’ll be writing about in…

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Time to Order Graduation Quilts

February 19, 2017
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Well, February is going to be over in a week or so and then March will roar in. Or whimper in. It’s hard to say with the strange weather we’ve been having. At any rate, it’s time to get those t-shirts together and have a quilt made for your graduate. My turnaround time is normally…

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When You Need Just One More T-Shirt

January 16, 2017
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To make a T-shirt quilt, one needs to have a number of squares that is divisible by three, four or five. The sizes I make are nine, twelve, sixteen, twenty, twenty-five or thirty T-shirt squares.  If you don’t have those numbers of shirts, the quilt just will not work out right mathematically. Often one can…

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Gift Quilts

October 10, 2016
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As promised a few weeks ago, I am sharing a photo of a quilt I started at retreat in August. I got it quilted and bound and it is now in a gift bag to take to a great niece’s wedding on Saturday.  I hope she and her new husband like the quilt as much…

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How to Choose T-Shirts for your Quilt

August 29, 2016
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Many of my customers have so many t-shirts that they have a hard time narrowing them down to a reasonable number to put in a quilt. Some of them show up for appointments with bags and bags and want me to help choose. Although I can help you choose, I really don’t know what is…

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Take a look at our Gallery to see examples of the T-Shirt Quilts as well as few of the many other quilts we have made.

I started making quilts as a child and have been quilting for others for over twenty years. Quilts that I have quilted have been featured in several quilting books and magazines.