How is THAT for a title? Scrappy is Trending, getting over the fear to start and other uses for your fabric... this show jams all that and MORE into it!

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Here is what you can look forward to on my show today!

Guest - I think Scrap quilts are 'trending' right now. Everyone has those bits and chunks left over and we want to know how to use them. I meet Kim Brackett when we were both teaching at a show. She is the author of three books FULL of scrap quilt ideas. Today Kim is going to share some scrap quilt planning with us!

Blog address:  www.magnoliabayquilts.blogspot.com

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/kim.brackett.77 

Guest - Leah Day is back this month to talk with me about getting over the 'fear' of making the right decision for your freemotion designs. I think that is something we all battle and we both have ideas for getting you over that hurtle of 'what to quilt'

www.FreeMotionProject.com
www.DayStyleDesigns.com

Guests -Kris Sazaki and Deb Cashat (Kris is on the left, Deb on the right).of Pixeladies. You may have their fantastic Book Furoshiki Fabric Wraps, or maybe you follow their blog pixeladies.com. They are chock full of information about uses for your fabric, plus they teach digital workshops that I know you are going to find super interesting if you have ever wanted to dabble in photoshop. As they say "it is much more than just putting a photo on fabric"

www.pixeladies.com

www.facebook.com/pixeladies

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We fly home today, arriving at midnight is all goes as planned... keep good weather thoghts for me!  I really hope you enjoyed the posts from market.. it's such fun to be able to share snippets of what is going on.  I took LOTS more photos that I'll share coming up

So with a fabric line called 'Bobbins and Bits" there has to be a name with SEW in it for one of my new patterns!  Sew Happy is a splash of little baby sewing baskets.. adorable eh? I love them!  This one is on the pattern cover. It was appliqued by my good friend Roberta and the quilt was quilted by Cindy of Pink Paw.  Let's take a closer look at the quilting.

Cindy came up with the idea of this basket weave.. holy moley is it fantastic!! I want this done on my quilts more often!

The other version is in batiks and was appliqued by Lina and quilted by Shelly of Prairie Moon. 

Shelly had the idea of bubbles in the background and her bubbles are beautiful!

ok... by the time you read this I'm flying home! See you there

There is a quilt show called HMQS, Home Machine Quilting Show, that has blow your socks off quilts. They highlight the quilting of the 3 layers, you know the QUILTING... not the Quilting.. LOL! Don't you love we use the SAME WORD for several parts?

ok.. here is the real deal.. the quilting DOES take your top to another level when you approach it as designing the 'next level' on your piece. 

Karlee Porter, won third place in the Utah’s Own quilt category for her 'Shimmering Symphony quilt'. She quilted this on an HQ sit-down machine... which means you can quilt like this on your machine! It's all about the artistry, not necessarily the machine

I really want to go to this show http://www.hmqs.org/ and examine the quilts. See how each quilter takes the piece to the next level.  

I've been chatting with Leah Day each month on my Radio Podcasts about this..CLICK HERE to see which shows I had her on. http://www.creativetalknetwork.com/

I got the heads up to the following posts from my Internet group.. your ARE my quilt group... right? CLICK HERE to explore and learn!

CLICK HERE to the HandiQuilter Blog

CLICK HERE to see 3 blog posts by Christa Quilts .. she also entered the show