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July 11, 2010
It is time again to say Hello to all of
you.
It has been an interesting Spring and
beginning of Summer. I am keeping busy with my Girls
Day/Night Out classes and coming up with new patterns for
all of you. I am especially excited about next year’s block
of the month sampler that I have made, but more about that
in the next newsletter.
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At
the end of June, my daughter Kim and I gave a
Girls Weekend Out Retreat in Monroe, WA.. It was
wonderful. Everyone had such a great time and
the food was wonderful. We have three others
scheduled for this year and made reservations
for 5 next year, If you are interested in
attending one of them, email me and I will give
you more information. I am also going to have a
button on my website that will tell about them. |
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| Roxanne
with her new Janome at retreat |
Kim, our retreat cook |
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| Quilters
Mess |
Quilters working hard |
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The middle of July, I will be going to the
Washington State Quilters Guild in Spokane, WA.
I will be doing two different lectures and
teaching two classes. One class will be on the
quilt-as-you-go log cabin pattern Night and Day
and the other class will be on the paper
foundation technique using freezer paper.
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The pattern of the month for August is the
Wild Flower pattern. It used 3 shades of 8
color families and an additional 8 greens
accents. I used the Tapestry fabrics by Avlyn.
My friend Sue Shamis from
www.VictoriaVistaQuilts.com has made a kit
up using the same fabrics as mine. If you are
interested in ordering the kit, checkout her
website. I had enough blocks made that I was
able to make a table runner with the leftover
blocks. The pattern includes the table runner
pattern. |
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| Wild
Flowers quilt |
Wild Flowers table
runner |
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For September the pattern will be Dream
Keeper. I went to sleep one night dreaming
of this pattern and remembered it when I woke up
- thus the name Dream Keeper. It is probable the
easiest pattern to make. I have made five and
can think of so many more fabrics that would be
great in it. The pattern will have three sizes,
baby, lap and queen size. I just love how the
baby size came out; I love all the faces of the
animals in the fabrics I used. |
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| Dream
Keeper lap quilt |
Dream Keeper baby
quilt |
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In October the pattern is a
design I came up with from driving along the 405
freeway at 4th street In Bellevue. I
saw the retaining wall and thought it would make
a great quilt idea. I call it Stained Glass
Tiles. I used a main print Batik fabric and
added about 25 accents from my stash for the
other colors, then one night as I was falling
asleep I thought that you could do it with a
Bali Pop, which is forty 2 1/2” wide batik
strips. This would give you more of a variety in
the blocks. |
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Stained Glass Tiles |
Stained Glass Tiles -
using a Bali Pop |
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I
have used a lot of the colors in the Tapestry
line but had all the browns, grays and black
fabrics left on the table. I felt that I needed
to come up with a pattern for them. One of my
students said to make a Bear Paw quilt with
them. Well, I couldn’t just make a Bear Paw so I
came up with a new design similar but different.
We named it Twinkle Toes . I made the
first one with the browns, black and grays and
then wondered what it would look like if I used
a print. I couldn’t believe what a difference in
the design the fabric choice made. One looks
real masculine and the other real feminine,
almost like flowers. I think it will be a fun
pattern for all and will be the November
pattern of the month.
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| Twinkle
Toes using two shades of color |
Twinkle Toes - using
a print and accents |
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I hope you are all having a
great summer and hope to see some of you soon.
Please checkout my website
www.quiltingwithroxanne.com
If you can't come to any of the classes, the
monthly patterns are available for $8 each plus
shipping. |
| Your quilting
teacher and friend,
Roxanne Carter |
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