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Jan23

Clever Fabric Folding

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Colleen demonstrated a clever method of fabric folding and storage at our last meeting.  She used an 8 inch wide plexiglass ruler, placed the cut end of the fabric  on the ruler and rolled the fabric on the ruler just like a bolt of fabric.  She slid half the roll off the end of the ruler and folded it over, making all her pieces uniform in shape and size.

Colleen has her fat quarters folded to fit into IKEA CD boxes.  The size of the fabric storage container will determine what size ruler to be used for folding.

Jan12

Pinwheels and Circles

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Pinwheels in a circle!  What a wonderful combination of shapes Tess created.Round Quilt

Tess is a long distance stasher.  She used a circle patterned fabric for the backing.

Back of Round Quilt

Back of Tess’s Round Quilt

To see details on how she put together this picnic quilt and other projects, visit her site, “MOTEMENA”.

Jan11

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WELCOME to the Stashing Sisters Website

Dedicated to all who love fabric and have a little ‘stash’ of their own.

Make sure and check out our latest posts and upcoming events.

Oct30

Apple Harvest Table Topper

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Here’s a quilt project that’s a cutie.  It’s a table topper of apples and jars of applesauce that is both hand and machine quilted.  Emily made this for her mom’s table in remembrance of their family picking local apples and making applesauce.  The colors are remarkably accurate for the pink applesauce and were chosen by her keen eyed husband.

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Since the project was small, Emily decided to incorporate hand quilting for the diagonal lattice pattern, giving it charm.  The long arm was used to quilt the borders.  Note the hand embroidered apple stems on the quilted table runner.

Oct15

A Piece of Texas

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Colleen visited her stash and came up with 2 new projects.  She made the first project for a new grandchild.

She says, “This quilt is for my new grandson.  He is the 4th boy, and they live in Texas.  I thought he needed a Texas themed quilt, so I put on horses and Texas stars.

Texas Themed Baby Quilt

She describes the second project:

Last fall my sisters and I signed up to take a class from Kim Diehl on appliqué.  I got sick and had to come home early and missed the class on this quilt, “Bittersweet Briar”.  I already had purchased the background and the green, so I started in January and finished it this Spring.  All the other fabrics are scraps and a few fat quarters I purchased.  It was my first attempt at a primarily appliquéd quilt.  Kim had a tan background, but I switched to a black one.  I quilted in between the stripes in the background, and loved the way it turned out.

Colleen's Square Applique Quilt

Thanks for sharing Colleen.

Sep24

Antique Sun Bonnet Sue Quilt

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Sunbonnet Sue Quilt made in the 50’s

This quilt was crafted in the 50’s.  Very cute but not real complicated.  The quilter appliqued the raw cut edges with a buttonhole stitch.  On close observation it appears that the edges were later zigzagged (sewn on a sewing machine) as to prevent raveling. There is no batting making this a great bed topper or summer quilt.  The backing is a pink plaid flannel.  Visit MyKindredTree.com for more information on the maker of this quilt.