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Create Your Own Drawstring Pouch
Handmade Christmas Gift Idea: Create Your Own Drawstring Pouch The holiday season is a perfect time to get crafty, and what better way to...
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Creating a Stunning Shamrock Quilt Block: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Creating a shamrock quilt block is perfect for March because it's St Patricks Day. He arrived in Ireland in the 430', nearly 1600 years...
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List of Quilt shops in Ireland
List of current Quilt shops in Ireland, some are online only but these were the names returned by my followers on Instagram Carlow...
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How to Make a Custom Heart-Shaped Cushion for Your Home Decor
If you’re a fan of handmade items to gift, you’ll appreciate this guide to creating your very own heart cushion. The process is fairly...
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Heart Block- step by step tutorial
Quilting is a beautiful, creative, and soothing activity that not only provides a satisfying pastime but also results in a functional...
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How to make two at a time Half Square Triangles
Discover the ultimate guide on how to make half square triangles two at a time! Unleash your creativity with our step-by-step tutorial.
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The Irish Quilter's quilt shop is much more than a fabric shop in Ireland.
Here's a list of things that are in the Irish Quilter quilt shops, we visited on in May 2023. It is much more than a Fabric shop
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The most beautiful quilt hand stitched from loved baby clothes.
A few months ago I quilted the most beautiful and thoughtful quilt, it was all hand stitched, the quilt top was made from triangles...
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Charity Quilt for Arklow Cancer Support
Do you want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money in aid of Arklow Cancer Support Group and every donation will help. I've...
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How to Make a Quilt hanger.
Tired of trying to get people to hold your quilt so you can photograph it? Whether it is just the quilt top or a heavy finished patchwork...
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What Sewing machine should I buy?
For patchwork all you need is a machine that can make a straight line. As a beginner the question is 'what sewing machine should I have',...
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What is a quarter-inch seam?
Patchwork involves sewing together small pieces of fabric to create a larger design. One of the key techniques in patchwork quilting is...
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What is Long arm quilting?
A quilt is three layers of fabric, blog post to find out more. Long arm quilting is a technique of quilting a quilt, it involves the use...
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Making it up that hill!
Climbing up a hill with a quilt I made as a handmade birthday gift for my sister.
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Teaching Patchwork and Quilting for the first time!
Teaching patchwork for the first time, some of the woman were learning to sew and learning to quilt for the first time.
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Quilting plan for Vienna Quilt
Vienna Quilt a new quilt pattern I tested and completed using free motion quilting and straight line quilting on my domestic sewing machine.
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WHAT IS A QUILT? WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PATCHWORK AND QUILTING?
#patchworkquilt At the beginning I found this a little intimidating, maybe because it is so simple but I didn't really understand what...
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MY FIRST QUILT, ADVICE WHAT NOT TO DO
In 2018, I made my first quilt, exactly 3 years ago. My children were young at the time and I wanted to make something for my daughter's...
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Fáilte chuig mo sheomra fuáile.
Welcome to my sewing room.
Let me tell you all the things I wish I knew when I started out, I can't wait to share with you stories of quilts I've made and maybe inspire and connect with others who love all things patchwork and quilting.
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