Category Archives: Quilting

Free Motion Quilting

Posted on August 30, 2017 by canucksfan

I have a quilt top waiting to be quilted. I want to free motion the entire quilt using eight different patterns. In order to do this I needed to practice on smaller sections of quilts. <— This heart block was … Continue reading →

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Machine Binding

Posted on January 10, 2017 by canucksfan

Binding, it seems, is dreaded by many. I actually don’t mind binding quilts. But as I get older my hands have a field day with pain after I’ve bound a quilt by hand. Joan convinced me to learn to bind … Continue reading →

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Anchors Away, a memorial quilt

Posted on January 3, 2017 by canucksfan

It’s January 11, 2015 and we are saying goodbye to our father. We did so on a foggy, calm morning from Billy Bones Bay on Protection Island. He was a mariner all his life and it was a fitting way … Continue reading →

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Label Challenge: #jellybeanrow

Posted on November 3, 2015 by canucksfan

My label is complete! The label I chose was from a bottle of wine from the Auk Island winery in Twillingate, Newfoundland. Back in 2008 I was lucky enough to hang out in St John’s and thoroughly fell in love … Continue reading →

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The Life Before: Reflections

Posted on October 27, 2015 by canucksfan

During the Row by Row Road trip back in June there was a lot more fabric and patterns purchased (by everyone) than just for the Row by Row H2O quilts. I’m not your typical quilter when it comes to purchasing … Continue reading →

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Memorial Quilts

Posted on October 19, 2015 by canucksfan

Last spring MLQ received a request to make a quilt from shirts of a man recently deceased. His daughter requested the quilt to be  big enough to cover the top of a double bed for now but could then be … Continue reading →

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The Story of Business Time

Posted on September 29, 2015 by canucksfan

At our Maple Beach Quilt retreat in 2014 we learned that one of us was getting married the following September. When you’re a quilter the first thing that pops to mind is making a quilt to celebrate the occasion. Since … Continue reading →

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Baby Honu

Posted on March 20, 2015 by canucksfan

Just completed the binding for this Baby Honu quilt, pattern by Lisa Boyer from  http://www.lisaboyer.com/lindex.htm Joan bought the pattern and some sea turtle batik fabric for me on her trip to Hawaii in 2009. Last November I started AND completed … Continue reading →

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Celebrate – It’s finally finished!

Posted on February 28, 2015 by canucksfan

After making my first red & white maple leaf quilt in 2009 I thought it would be cool to make several more. I purchased lots of red fabric on my 2010 Road Trip to Sisters, Oregon. Things got in the … Continue reading →

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My Endless Chain: On Walkabout

Posted on January 28, 2015 by canucksfan

Another quilt is complete, but to say that I have mixed emotions about this quilt is an understatement. Let’s start from the beginning. In September 2011 I posted an online BOM, A Quilter’s Constellation, that would take us through to … Continue reading →

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