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Beating the Summer Slump: 6 Ways to Keep Quilting When It's Too Hot to Sew quilting mindset

It’s 95 degrees, your sewing room is doing its best impression of an oven, and the last thing you want is to drag a quilt sandwich across your lap. Th...

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My First Quilt beginner behind the scenes quilting mindset

If you were to stand in front of me today and say, “My first quilt was a disaster,” I would admonish you and ask you to share one thing you like about...

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Quilty Goals Mid-Year Check In behind the scenes goal setting quilting mindset

My favorite week of the year is the last week in December, when everyone gets new calendars and journals and sets their goals for the coming year. My ...

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Setting Quilty Goals goal setting quilting mindset

Have you abandoned your new year resolutions yet? According to calendars that tell us fun things like when smile day is, you likely let those resoluti...

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What I Hate About Show & Tell behind the scenes quilting mindset

Updated Nov. 11, 2025

It never fails. Your guild announces that show and tell is about to start. People with something to share anxiously line up. The...

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