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Dec
5

APQ Designer Challenge with Joanna Figueroa

Moda designer Joanna Figueroa of Fig Tree & Co. is kicking off a new, year-long Designer Challenge series with American Patchwork & Quilting! Read on to learn more about this exciting series and her upcoming quilt-along.
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Author: 
Anna Dineen
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Trending, Quilt-Along, Designers
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American Patchwork & Quilting, Fig Tree & Co., Joanna Figueroa
Mar
27

Scrappy Celebration QAL- week 6

Happy Quilt Along Monday! Those of you that are doing the Scrappy Celebration QAl should be jumping up and down with this week's blocks, I and J. Both are big pieces and easy piecing. You may notice that many of the fabrics in the circle behind my block picture are disappearing. As I make more and...
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Author: 
Lissa Alexander
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Quilt-Along
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American Patchwork & Quilting, Electric Quilt Company, quiltalong
Mar
20

Scrappy Celebration, week 5

Happy Monday, Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Welcome back to another installment of the Scrappy Celebration QAL. This week we are making blocks G and H. G is a big easy one perfect for any leftover scraps that are 2" squares from your other blocks. Have fun with it and scrap it up. You will...
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Author: 
Lissa Alexander
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Quilt-Along
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American Patchwork & Quilting, quiltalong, Scrap quilt
Apr
23

APQ Bucket List Update

The June 2019 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting is out and the busy folks at APQ have been checking things off their Bucket List. What about you? The quilt on the cover - it was designed and made by ModaLissa, aka Lissa Alexander. It uses Bella Solids - Cherry 9900 230 / Royal 9900 19 /...
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Author: 
cnelson
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Books and Patterns
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American Patchwork & Quilting, Bucket List
Feb
28

Bucket List No. 11

Are you checking things off your list ? Our friends at American Patchwork & Quilting have been working on their list , and they've worked on five tasks. No. 7. Sew accurately using foundation piecing. If using Cake Mixes counts as foundation piecing, then I can cross this one off my list too...
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Author: 
cnelson
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American Patchwork & Quilting, Bucket List
Sep
16

What's a million?

Easy answer - a lot. Better answer - a seriously cool goal that will be reached one day soon. That's Noa Pogany. She's eleven. She learned how to sew last year and since then, she's made 100 pillowcases to donate. She then delivered the pillowcases to the pediatric intensive care unit of a local...
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Author: 
cnelson
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Fabrics, Trending
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24-Hour Sew-A-Thon, American Patchwork & Quilting, million pillowcase challenge, Patchwork, Pillowcase, Quilt, quilting, Sewing
Mar
28

The third time is supposed to be the charm...

Let's hope that holds true. This will be the third time I've been a guest on Pat Sloan's weekly quilting radio show/podcast for American Patchwork & Quilting. The first time, the phone went dead. We lost the connection. The second time... let it suffice to say that I thought it would be more...
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Author: 
cnelson
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American Patchwork & Quilting, Fat Quarter Shop, Mary Abreu, Pat Sloan, Patchwork, podcast, Quilt, quilting, Sewing
Mar
18

Best day of the year...

Saturday is National Quilting Day - the 25th Anniversary celebration. It's my favorite day of the year - right after National Waffle Day. (That's next week so mark your calendars for the 25th.) Begun in 1989 by the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society as a "Quilter's Day Out" on the 3rd Saturday of...
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cnelson
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American Patchwork & Quilting, Moda Designers, National Quilting Day, Patchwork, Quilt, quilting, Sewing
Nov
5

Pat Sloan is On the Air!

I love listening to podcasts while I sew. I have a whole range that I enjoy, from cooking shows to game shows. But what could be more fun than listening to a show about quilting, while I’m actually quilting? The team of Pat Sloan, American Patchwork and Quilting, and Moda make hitting that sweet...
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Author: 
Linzee McCray
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Trending
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American Patchwork & Quilting, Moda Designers, Pat Sloan, radio
Sep
15

There's some sewing going on...

It is National Sewing Month. So I'm allowed - and required. There's a whole bunch to share today so let me get to it! First up are pillowcases - the APQ - 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge is having a Sew-A-Thon on Friday and Saturday. If you're in Des Moines, the American Patchwork offices at the...
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Author: 
cnelson
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Books and Patterns, Notions, Trending
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American Patchwork & Quilting, million pillowcase challenge, Patchwork, Quilt, quilting, Sewing