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Pine + Bow Quilt Along Post #3: Pine Tips + Tricks

April 18, 2023 by carolyn friedlander 1 Comment

It's Post #3 in the Pine + Bow Quilt Along, and I'm excited to share more about my Pine project, give you some tips and tricks and show you my sewing space! Here's a look. Making your sewing ...

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Pine + Bow Quilt Along Post #2: Meet Bow + Fabric Pull

April 18, 2023 by carolyn friedlander 1 Comment

Pine + Bow Quilt Along Post #2: Meet Bow + Fabric Pull We're in week #2 of the Quilt Along! This week, let's take a look at Bow. The Bow quilt Bow is my homage to a rainbow, and it's such a ...

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Pine + Bow Quilt Along Post #1: Meet Pine + Fabric Pull

April 18, 2023 by carolyn friedlander 2 Comments

Pine + Bow Quilt Along Post #1: Meet Pine + Fabric Pull Let's look at Pine! I'm thrilled to kick off this Quilt Along with this first post about Pine. Since we're featuring two patterns (Pine ...

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Pine + Bow Quilt Along

April 7, 2023 by carolyn friedlander 10 Comments

Are you ready for a Pine + Bow quilt along? While at QuiltCon, I got excited to do another quilt along, and many of you seemed interested too. We did some polling on instagram to see what folks ...

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QuiltCon Atlanta 2023

March 16, 2023 by carolyn friedlander 6 Comments

It's been almost a month since QuiltCon Atlanta 2023--what a rush! For the first time I had a booth and it was a ton of fun. Here are some highlights from the show. Booth Building There's ...

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Slow Stitching retreat in Maine

September 23, 2022 by carolyn friedlander 5 Comments

Last month I taught at the A Gathering of Stitches Slow Stitching retreat in Maine. In my workshops we explored machine piecing techniques with my Long Leaf, Frond and Slash patterns. It's always such ...

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Basting my Blue Slash Quilt

August 26, 2022 by carolyn friedlander 5 Comments

Before leaving to teach in Maine recently, I basted my Blue Slash quilt. I finished the top much earlier this year, and so the basting was overdue! A Gathering of Stitches hosts these beautiful ...

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Takeaways from Me Made May 2022

June 2, 2022 by carolyn friedlander 8 Comments

Me Made May Another May is over, and I have plenty of takeaways from Me Made May 2022. Like previous years, it's been a good, creative push. And no surprise, I've added more garment patterns to my ...

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Long Leaf Baby Quilt

April 22, 2022 by carolyn friedlander 2 Comments

A couple of months back, I made this Long Leaf Baby Quilt. The Colors and Prints I auditioned a lot of different things when pulling fabrics for this project. Sometimes I have a palette in ...

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Long Leaf Technique Tips

September 23, 2021 by carolyn friedlander 3 Comments

I had my first in-person event last week since the start of COVID. While it presented new considerations (like teaching masked), it was really fun sewing with folks again, and I was eager to see one ...

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Clay mini quilt . carolyn friedlander

Clay Mini quilt.

July 6, 2020 by carolyn friedlander 7 Comments

Despite this Clay mini quilt being my most recent Clay finish, it was actually the quilt where it all began. It all started with a mini charm pack from a Quilt Market years ago. The pack included ...

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Hunt QAL #12 Check In.

May 28, 2020 by carolyn friedlander 9 Comments

Hunt QAL #12 Check In. Month #12, we did it! It's been a year of Hunt, and I appreciate you following along and joining in. At the start, I really just thought I'd make a quilt top by this point, ...

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spools quilt . carolyn friedlander

Meet Spools, my new quilt pattern.

April 27, 2020 by carolyn friedlander 4 Comments

Meet Spools, my new quilt pattern and tribute to an iconic sewing essential. Spools is very literally a celebration of sewing, with all kinds of color, fabric and print possibilities. ...

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Safety, Sanity and Sewing.

March 19, 2020 by carolyn friedlander 1 Comment

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Safety, sanity and sewing have been front of mind lately. I hope that you and your family are staying safe and taking care wherever you may be. I am grateful for ...

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Hearts Quilt . Carolyn Friedlander

Hearts behind the scenes.

August 16, 2019 by carolyn friedlander Leave a Comment

Here's a little Hearts behind-the-scenes action. I was looking back through some photos, and found these shots from when I was making my new Hearts quilt. At this stage, I'd gotten all of my hearts ...

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Hunt QAL . Carolyn Friedlander

Hunt QAL Month #1 Check In.

June 27, 2019 by carolyn friedlander 1 Comment

Hunt QAL Month #1 Check In. I have two questions for you. (1) How has it already been 1 month, and (2) how are things going with you and your project? For me, this month developed in ways I ...

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Hunt Quilt Along: Project Overview.

May 9, 2019 by carolyn friedlander 2 Comments

Hunt Quilt Along: Project Overview. Yay, I'm so glad that you're joining in! And I'm really excited to hear that many of you are happy about the year-long format. It'll be good! This week I'm doing ...

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Davie Quilt . Carolyn Friedlander

cf Mini QAL #5: Gradation.

August 16, 2018 by carolyn friedlander 3 Comments

cf Mini QAL #5: Gradation. How was last week? Here's what I made. This week, my focus was on Davie. With last week's challenge being about all colors, I tried not to over think my fabric ...

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Lusk B sketch . Carolyn Friedlander

cf Mini QAL #3: Using An Accent.

August 2, 2018 by carolyn friedlander 1 Comment

cf Mini QAL #3: Using An Accent. How did last week go for you? Did you like the two-tone challenge? I really did. In fact, I kind of like the idea of my project from the week being a jumping off ...

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Babson Quilt . Carolyn Friedlander

Meet Babson.

June 11, 2018 by carolyn friedlander 3 Comments

Last up of the newbies is Babson, a very graphic and fun-to-sew project. This quilt is kind of like Eads in that it's super mix and matchable, works with a bunch of different fabrics, can be ...

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