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A Review Of The Bowl Me Over Bag Pattern – ByAnnie Patterns

This Bowl me over bag pattern ByAnnie is one of my first attempts at bag making and I’m sharing all my learning moments along the way!

5 Ways To Set Up Your Best Creative Life

Amazing life changes aren’t only allowed to start during the month of January. Your best creative life can start today. I hope you know that. Logically it makes sense, but also we’re kind of conditioned to believe that January is the best “Monday” of the year to start thinking about

2021 Word Of The Year Project – And Also My Foundation Paper Piecing Project

This is the foundation paper piecing project that I created with my word of the year for 2021 – Abundance. Look how detailed those letters are! I love FPP because of the level of perfection you can achieve!

What Stitch Length Should I Use?

*This post was updated on 1/19/2020* Hey! If you’re looking for answers to what in the world stitch length is and why you need to pay attention to it…. we’re going to get to the bottom of it today! For those of you who want a quick and easy answer,

The best way to hand-tie a quilt! What you need to know.

One of the easiest ways to finish up a quilt – and has a classic “handmade with love” look is to hand-tie your quilt. It’s an old art that sometimes loses its spotlight to the fancy free-motion quilting designs, but hand-tying shouldn’t be overlooked or underestimated! Let’s take a look

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Get Your Sewing Machine Ready for 2021!

Whew! I hope you have been doing a TON of sewing these past few months! I tend to sew heavier in the later months of the year getting things ready for the holidays and finish up the projects I said I would finish by the end of the year (and

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Framework for a Creativity Audit – How to plan for more creativity

Learn the right way to audit your current state you can plan for more creativity! More creativity = more wonderful moments of quilting!

One of the quilted fabric Christmas Ornament. super cute and super easy to make

My Crafty Fabric Christmas Ornaments!

This has been such a fun project that I’ve played with the last few weeks, I just had to share it with you! Check out these beautiful fabric Christmas ornament balls that I made! Let me say first of all that this was an EASY project. It looks complicated, but