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Hi-Lighters are cool

For Elizabeth's quilt in the Traveling Quilts bee, she sent along neon fabrics for each of us to work with.  Monica's addition is ingenious, and then Dan's addition is really cohesive, bringing it all together. 

It took me a bit to figure out what my addition would be and after waffling back and forth with whether to make my hi-lighters into a block or border, I decided to go with the hi-lighter block. 

The hi-lighter patterns will be available on sew-ichigo in a few weeks along with a couple of patterns by Kerry.  We're putting together a back to school set that will inspire!

One more thing:

QuiltCon registration starts today!  You can see a list of the classes being offered here, and lectures here.

I'll be there teaching a couple of paper piecing classes and in some of my free time, I'm going to take a class from Lotta, doing some textile printing.

I hope to see you there!

xo,  Penny

Latte to Go mug rug and gift card sleeve tutorial

Tutorial at Sew-Ichigo!

 

Latte to Go

Happy Monday to you!  Did you all have a good weekend?

L-man and I had a really fun and productive weekend.  Saturday we spent the day on the river and I photographed him and a few friends kayaking a Class V section of the Poudre river called the Narrows.  It was a really fun day!

And then today, we did some clean-up stuff around the house which included clearing some dead trees off our land.  Boy I'm tired.

On Friday, Kerry and I got a couple of new patterns up on Sew-Ichigo.  My Latte to Go

And Kerry's Strawberry Ichigo

We have them listed on Sew-Ichigo and craftsy.

Both these patterns are super simple and great for beginning paper piecers!

Make sure you check Sew-Ichigo on Wednesday for a brief tutorial/how-to make this Latte to Go mug rug and gift certificate sleeve

 

And just a bit more eye candy, here's what I'm working on for Elizabeth's quilt in the Traveling Quilts bee.

She sent along neon fabrics and her quilt is coming along so nicely!

I hope you all have a great week and see you on Wednesday at Sew-Ichigo!

hugs,

Penny

 

 

while life happens...

 

Life has been full these last several weeks!  I'm missing you though and will be back soon!

xo,

Penny