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Have you heard of Quiltcon? Hosted by the Modern Quilt Guild, it's not your grandmother's quilt show, exuding a more contemporary vibe rather than a traditional quilt show. With Covid-19, the Modern Quilt Guild (MQG) decided early that the quilt show would be virtual this year and put all their effort into making sure to do it right!All the classes will be online, too, and I’m excited to announce I will be teaching 3 classes! I wanted to make sure there would be something for everyone, so I created a Traditional type piecing class, a Foundation Paper Piecing class, and an English Paper Piecing Class....

Kristy Lea (@quitetplay) has released her first fabric line through Riley Blake Fabrics, named CREATE, and today is my day to tell you how awesome it is! It was so nice during this pandemic to have happy fabric to play with! I decided to design a new foundation paper-pieced pattern to celebrate called Rainbow Dash. I focused on the tone on tone small scale prints to play with for this pillow cover to fit an IKEA pillow.   These yummy saturated prints are perfect to add to your stash and I HAD to make a mask from the larger prints...

I’m excited to show you a couple different ways that I used Sallie Tomato's new Faux Leather. It is a vegan material with 3 different finishes and lots of colors and so easy to work with. At $.44 per inch (it is 25-27” wide) you can afford to grab them all! I loved playing with the different color and texture combinations and finally decided to make 2 different projects! Kwik Cosmetic Bag is really a perfect bag for many things. I chose the Mustard Pebble and Navy Legacy with some vintage Alison Glass fabric for the lining. I use it to...

Join us for 8 weeks of sewing and prizes during the Jeweled Facets Sewalong!Beginning February 3rd, follow the prompts and post to Instagram or Facebook to be eligible for fun prizes from sponsors like Daylight Company, Andover Fabrics, and Oliso.The rules are easy:  You must complete five (5) Jeweled Facets blocks Post your progress photos for each week's prompt and use the hashtags #jeweledfacetsSAL and #iblamekarie  Each week one lucky winner will be chosen from the previous week's posts. Your 5 blocks must be completed and posted TOGETHER in one post to be eligible for Week 8's grand prize.  Your blocks can be...

WELCOME TO MONTH 12!Thank you so much for playing along. It was a lot of fun planning this BOM. We will be having a Jeweled Facets Sew Along starting the end of January too,  so stay tuned!  I am all about options, so here are several options for finishing your BOM quilt! For the original setting, place each of the star blocks from Months 10 and 11 (pictured below) on an 11" x 11" background.  Add a 3” border to each side of each 11” block to make 4 -  16” blocks. These are the blocks for the 4 corners. For the next...