Are you making the Adventureland Quilt by Suzy Quilts? Don’t waste any of the excess fabric. Instead, make a matching baby quilt. I’ll show you how I made mine in this post. If you need the Adventureland quilt pattern, you can download it at Suzy Quilts. My Naturally Dyed Adventureland Quilt For the release of the […]
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The County Quilt pattern is only my second quilt pattern I released, but one of my favorites. This block based pattern comes together with yardage or fat quarters to make a lovely repeating design. Designs like this I find to be so versatile. The quilt looks amazing with all solids, all prints, or a mix
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In this blog post, I go over how to modify your naturally dyed colors to achieve a wider range of color when dyeing.
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The Cultivate Quilt pattern is a medallion quilt that incorporates several different quilt blocks into a unique design that is classic, yet modern. In this blog post, I go over some of the challenges of sewing a medallion quilt with simple fixes and ways to modify the Cultivate quilt pattern to make it your own.
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We have made it to the most exciting week of the dye along – dyeing. Natural dyeing can seem like a lot of work and not a lot of fun when you are preparing fabric for dye. We all know how important the preparations are, but this week will be a bit more exciting as
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Welcome to week 2 of the natural dye along. This week we will complete the most important part of natural dyeing, mordanting. I know this part intimidates many new dyers, but you will see that there is nothing to worry about by the end of this week. What is Mordanting? Mordanting is the process of
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Welcome to week 1 of the natural dye along. I am so excited to get started. Alright, let’s just dive right in and start some new dye adventures. This is the first time I have held a natural dye along and it seems there is so much to go over this first week. In the
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Last year, I set out to use natural dye to create eight different colors for a quilt I was working on. After, I marked the variety of color in a photograph by writing the dye goods used for each color. I have returned to this photograph on several occasions to remember how this was achieved.
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Starting on May 4th, I will be teaching you the basics of natural dyeing. Each week, we will go over one step of the process and you will have a chance to try it on your own fabric. This is a great opportunity to learn some of the basics alongside an amazing group of makers. I have
A medallion quilt pattern inspired by simple, classic designs with a modern look. The Design I designed the Cultivate quilt pattern in the fall of 2020. All in the span of a couple weeks, I designed this quilt and three other of my recent designs. This was my first couple of weeks of having childcare
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