Oct

16

Nancy’s teapots

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Nancy Manion is a quilter that I met at the San Diego show. She told me she had made the sampler quilt from Teapots 2 to Appliqué, and I asked her to send me a photo.

Isn’t it gorgeous? Nancy says,

You can quote me: “I couldn’t remember doing applique before and had avoided it for [...]

Mar

23

Fun fabrics!

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Jane Adams sent me a photo of the sampler quilt she made using the designs in Teapots 2 to Appliqué!
Look at this cheerful gem!! Jane says she used all types of fabrics to depict holidays, different cultures, and fun designs. I love how she added her own little touches to the blocks and put [...]

Mar

13

Excited about teapots!

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“I’m excited,” writes Janis Rink of Albany, New York.
“I worked on the BOM sponsored by Flying Geese Fabrics in Albany during the past year. It was led by Pat Cunningham. I jumped on board in March when two of the ladies who signed up never claimed their first two blocks. So I [...]

Mar

8

New book is here!

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Yesterday morning I got up and did the happy dance.
For me this looks like jumping up and down while doing the twist. I am not normally much of a morning person, especially before coffee, but I was celebrating the fact that it was the official publication day for Inspired by Tradition: 50 Appliqué Blocks [...]

Nov

2

Color pop pots

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Check out Jeanne’s gorgeous colorful teapot top over on Flickr! Some are my designs from Teapots 2 to Appliqué and some are others… and I love love love the dachsund!!
Cheers,
Kay
By Kay Mackenzie

Oct

12

Baskets bloom in Florida

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I recently received the most amazing message from Rebecca Hoffmann of Plant City, Florida. It made my day and then some!!
I am a member of Feather Princess Appliqué Guild of Tampa, Florida. One of the sewing circles of the guild is “Sewrority Sisters Appliqué Sewciety.” We meet once a month for four hours of sewing [...]

Jul

31

Teapots in Paradise

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I just returned from International Quilt Festival in Long Beach, California. My next-door neighbors were the gals from Quilters’ Paradise in Clovis. When they saw my Teapots 2 to Appliqué they told me that their appliqué teacher Adena uses the book to teach blanket-stitch machine appliqué! Very cool!
Here’s the project from the class, photo courtesy [...]

Jun

5

Teapots in the kitchen

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Marion Butler of Hoekwil, South Africa, told me that her daughter Jane asked her to make a wallhanging for her new kitchen. I was delighted to learn that Marion made a teapot wall quilt using the patterns in my Teapots 2 to Appliqué!

Isn’t it beautiful? I especially love how Marion mixed scale in the teapots. [...]

Feb

27

My new book!

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Even though this is the ninth time, it’s still so exciting when I get that call to come pick up cartons of new books, hot off the presses.

Dolls & Dresses to Appliqué is officially in print!

There are a dozen dolls and cute dresses, plus instructions for a sampler quilt to show off the entire [...]

Jan

11

Teapots brighten community

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I’m so delighted at this fantastic show and tell sent to me by Ann Millard of Wilmington, North Carolina.

The story of this bright, beautiful quilt, which uses patterns from my Teapots to Appliqué:
My quilting bee was asked by by son’s girlfriend, Lyndsay Benson, to help her DAR chapter make a teapot quilt. The name [...]

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