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Dec 14, 2011

Men Who Quilt – Sew What? Unique Exhibit on Display in Santa Paula By Annie Eitman 10/13/2011 The California Oil Museum boasts an extensive display of local history consisting of antiques illustrating our region’s legacy in the oil industry. Soon, amid the various vintage tools hefted over the years by muscular and muddy derrick workers, [...]

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Barn Quilts – Le Roy’s “Quilt” Project Celebrates History, Agriculture

Nov 17, 2011

by Kristina Greene Gabalski, Daily News Correspondent – Posted: Saturday, October 15, 2011 2:30am There’s a lot of “quilting” going on in Le Roy these days – not the kind that involves fabric – but quilt designs painted on plywood and hung on the sides of barns. It’s the beginnings of a barn quilt trail [...]

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Quilting Tools and Havel’s Scissors

Nov 14, 2011

Best Scissors For Use With Difficult Fabrics by Leslie Jenison In this tutorial I demonstrate how to use sheers to build a layer over the surface of a project. For this project I took scraps of fabric that had been used for a previous project and fused them to a base-layer of cotton cloth with [...]

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Free Christmas Quilt Pattern Part 8 ~ by Terry White

Nov 4, 2011

On The Eighth Day Of Havel’s, My True Love IsThe 7″ Serrated Sewing/Quilting Scissors Make the Lining 1. I used polyester taffeta lining fabric for the lining. I traced the correct size of the lining onto the fabric with a fine line marker and then cut it out with serrated scissors. Havel’s serrated scissors are [...]

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Free Christmas Quilt Pattern Part 4 ~ by Terry White

Nov 2, 2011

On The Fourth Day Of Havel’s,My True Love Is The 8″ Sewing/Quilting Scissors Make the Christmas Presents 1. Choose fabric scraps that liven up the design. I chose four green prints.Green will show up very well against the orange background. 2. Apply fusible web to the back of the fabric scraps. Take the paper off [...]

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