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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
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 [...]
Jun
5
Teapot friendship blocks
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I came across a teapot quilt on the web and was delighted to see that it was all designs from my first collection, Teapots to Appliqué!
I sent off an email asking about the quilt, and soon received a reply from MJ Peters in Vermont, on the left in the photo. Here’s the story behind her [...]
Apr
14
I’ve been saving some great news to tell you. Always Quilting in San Mateo, California, is running a block-of-the-month program with Teapots 2 to Appliqué!
It was through their BOM with the original Teapots book that I got to know the shop’s owners, Kit and Julie. They contacted me with an emergency book order, and told [...]
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
1
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 [...]
Jan
15
One of the members of my guild, Kathy, told me that her small quilt group (minus one) had gotten together and made something in secret for the remaining member. Jean, the unsuspecting recipient, loved tea and teapots, so they had all made a block from Teapots to Appliqué and had put them together into a [...]
Oct
17
Counterpoint teapots
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My appliqué friend Janet Locey made a sample for my Teapots to Appliqué book using the “counterpoint” technique of reversing the values in alternating blocks.
Janet works only by machine and is masterful at a couple of different machine appliqué techniques. This one was done using freezer paper templates and glue stick to turn the [...]
Sep
21
A teatime vignette
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Jean Post, one of my appliqué friends here in Santa Cruz, made this delightful scene using elements from Teapots to Appliqué. I call it “Afternoon at the Cabin,” because to me it looks like a lazy afternoon at a cabin by a lake, at just about teatime. The log cabin quilt on the wall is [...]