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 [...]

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

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. [...]

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 [...]

Jan

5

Another spectacular teapot find

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If you like teapots, head on over to my All About Appliqué blog and feast your eyes on the masterpiece created for the Tualatin Valley Quilt Guild!
I’m so proud.
Until next time,
Kay
By Kay Mackenzie

Oct

30

Awesome Asian Teapots

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I came across this entry on longarm quilter Nancy Gambrel’s blog, where she shows off her customers’ quilts and the beautiful quilting she’s done on them.
Lo and behold, there’s an absolutely beautiful teapot quilt made by Pat Besenhofer, and I recognize it as being from my Teapots 2 to Appliqué. What an internet find! [...]

Feb

1

Florida teapots

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I was recently alerted by a quilter in Florida that she’d seen and purchased my book Teapots to Appliqué at the Quilt Shop of Deland and that the shop had a beautiful sample hanging. Of course I went to investigate. On the shop’s home page, about halfway down, there’s a slide show called “Tour Our [...]

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