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What To Put In An EPP Travel Kit and Studio Happenings
Do you EPP? English paper piecing or EPP as it is affectionately known to quilters, is a fabulous way to to make fun appliques using scrap fabric and small templates. One of the most popular shapes to create is the hexagon. It’s definitely my favorite and I love to make flowers out of them. One […]
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Fourth, Food, And A Finish!
What a short week it has been with the holiday in the middle of it! For those in the USA, I hope you all had a fun celebration with your family. We had a great day of relaxing and eating followed by a fireworks display and watching the Boston Pops! I love the 4th of […]
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Didn’t Love This Week!
Oh what a long, strange week it has been over here at casa Colwell. Not much quilting has been going on as we’ve been in the middle of health emergencies and blizzards and a lot of snow days! Last Thursday Leah fainted in the bathroom while I was trimming her hair (for the first time, […]
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Finding What Feels Right
It’s so cold here in MA! It’s the face stinging kind of cold that makes you feel like hunkering down indefinitely. On Saturday our town won the ‘snow derby’ by accumulating the most amount of snow in the state for this storm. We had a whopping 19.5″ and this is what my backyard looked like. […]
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Projects Galore for 2017!
Happy New Year!!! Are you all ready for 2017? I feel refreshed and ready to go this week. Last week I shared with you that my word for the year is ‘focus’ and I’ve also declared this a ‘year of yes’. For me that means focusing on the parts of my business that I love […]
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Counting Hexies
Yesterday I spent two hours in the waiting room of the dentist while Amanda had her appointment. I brought along my Earlene Fowler book and my little box of hexagon English paper piecing. The waiting room was very quiet, a bit too warm, a bit dim and quietly playing on the TV was Caribbean House […]
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Tuesday’s Progress
Hope you all had a wonderful July 4th weekend! The actual 4th was a washout for us around here but we had fun on the 5th instead with a cook out and pool party. It was nice to see all the cousins enjoying each other’s company. Rachel was here and I had the opportunity to […]
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Finished English Paper Piecing Table Topper!
Just in time to give as a Christmas gift, I finished the table topper! I have truly enjoyed my first adventure with EPP (English Paper Piecing). I also found an interesting website yesterday that specializes in EPP and has lots of paper patterns, notions, and free downloads including a yardage calculator. It is http://www.paperpieces.com. My […]
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English Paper Piecing Adventure
I worked on my English paper piecing project last night and I was able to complete 4 of the hexagons. I also skipped ahead to whip stitching a few of them together while the directions were still fresh in my mind. In going over some of my notes from the dvd, I realized my whip […]
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English Paper Piecing
I received a free dvd in the mail from Creative Crafts Group (publishers of many quilt magazines including McCalls and Quiltmaker). It is called the Inspire – Design – Create Quilting DVD Collection. It’s one of those deals where you can sign up and receive future dvd’s every few months for a fee. I popped […]