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Moose Sunrise - reverse applique tutorial

Laura F

This brilliant quilt is Minkee, velvety dense color, and soooooooooooooooooo touchable. To make this quilt, I enlarged the continuous line designs that put the moose family in the swamp under willow tree branches, and enlarged the continuous line designs that put the crane and ducks in the pond.  I made sure both were closed-loop designs, meaning no start, no stop, for each of the two patterns.Both designs then were traced by hand with a Sharpie pen (that tip they call fine point but its really fairly big), onto a 47 wide x 84" long sheet of Dissolve (from Superior Threads).  The border...

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Where it Begins

Laura F

This is a doodled horse, on a baby quilt. The freehand sashing surrounding the blocks is all numbers and letters, all the bright blocks are animals birds reptiles and fishes. From here I will redraw the pattern, keeping the stuff that makes it wonderful, reshaping that which is too clumsy.  One day you get to see it in this store, and maybe find your own use for it. This is where it all starts for me.

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