Mar

29

Tea Garden

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Pam, you’ve done it again! Pam Crooks is one of the members of the small quilt group I’ve been stitching with for over 11 years. She’s a super-busy gal, working full-time and traveling for her position with a banking institution, plus participating in so many appliqué projects it could make your head spin. Yet she [...]

Mar

21

Oriental Teapot

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The next quilt I’m showing you from Teapots 2 to Appliqué is very cool. Verona Flint hand-appliquéd a beautiful batik teapot with a shimmery gold handle and spout on plain white fabric, and handed it back to me. When I looked at it I immediately started brainstorming on a setting to show it off. Something [...]

Mar

13

Pinwheels and Tea

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The last quilt I showed you from Teapots 2 to Appliqué was by Shannon (see the March 4 post). Now here’s one from her mom, Janet.
Janet and Shannon are mother-and-daughter quilters from Hollister, California.
I put these two quilts together on a page in Teapots 2 because I just loved how each piece reflected the [...]

Mar

9

Blue Willow

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ED NOTE: The teapot designs are from my book Teapots to Appliqué, but these blue willow teapots were made by Reeze Hanson of Morning Glory Designs. Please visit her blog for contact information with your questions about Blue Willow fabric.
Blue Willow was my mother’s china pattern. Whenever I see it, it brings back warm [...]

Mar

4

Here is my handle, here is my spout

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We all know the verse about the little “short and stout” teapot. My appliqué friend Shannon Wilkinson took some words from it and made the most adorable wall quilt with designs from Teapots 2.
Shannon used fusible machine appliqué for the teapot, the cups, and the letters. Too cute! This one appears in the book as [...]

Mar

1

New Teapots are here!

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My show and tell today is my new book, Teapots 2 to Appliqué!
Today is the official publication date, but I actually had the book in time for last weekend’s quilt show put on by my home guild. It’s so much fun having a new book and having all of my quilter friends come by to [...]