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I was going through my camera and found all these beautiful photos I had taken of my quilts and thought I need to get these up on my blog! What better way to archive my quilts 🙂 For those that follow me on Facebook and Instagram, sorry for some of the repeat pictures.

This is one that I made last month using my modern Quilt as you Go
method. The pattern will be in my book which comes out in September.  The book couldn’t come any sooner! I’ve found that one of the hardest parts about doing my book is not being able to share this technique with you all until it comes out. It’s such of a fun, simple, fussy-free and best of all, creative technique – I absolutely cannot wait to share it!

In the meantime, I will have a sample quilt as you go tutorial coming soon on my blog. I couldn’t leave you all hanging! I promised the tutorial last week, but there were some delays as I’m working with Pellon brand to get the tutorial out. Also, if you’re in the Seattle, Washington area I teach classes (check my blog for details).

I’m obsessed with this red biased binding – this is the 2nd quilt I’ve binded with it. 🙂

Being a mama that takes countless photos of her munchkin, you’ll see this cutie pop up in my quilt photos a lot.

…now isn’t this a cute bundle? 😉

A quilt plus chubby baby feet. You can’t go wrong!

The fabric I used is Scrumptious by Bonnie and Camille for Moda Fabrics. I love their fabrics and am excited to use their latest collection called April Showers. It has that vintage retro look to it – absolutely love!

Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out my quilts. I’ll work on being better about doing more blog posts this year.

Happy quilting!

-jera (and my furry quilting buddy, Paige)

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Here’s what I did with the beautiful threads that that Cloud 9 Fabrics sent me the other week. The collection is called Koi by Rashida Coleman-Hale. It’s a scrappy take on my Rainy Days quilt, except I used my modern Quilt as You Go technique. The technique made it SO easy to do all of that intricate quilting! This was probably one of the funnest Quilt as You Go’s I’ve made so far.

And yes, this one will be in the book. 🙂 Another one down. One and a half  more week left to complete 3 more quilt projects and bind 4 more quilts. What a month this has been!

Paige seems to approve. As soon as I laid it out for a picture she rolled right on and then fell asleep. What a Twinkie.

I timed myself on this one. It took me about 7 hours to quilt all the blocks and assemble the quilt. That’s not too bad considering it’s already quilted! The only thing left is to add backing and binding. I managed to make all of this yesterday, thanks to my son taking a super long (almost 4 hour!) nap, and another late night of quilting.

And because I don’t make enough blog posts (you’re better off following me on facebook for more updates :))…and because I know a lot of you are fabriholics as myself AND I happen to be at the fabric store constantly because of this book…I thought you might appreciate these pictures.

This is Drygoods Design, one of my favorite local fabric shops. It’s tucked behind Anchorship Coffee in a historical brick building in the Seattle  neighborhood of Ballard. I always say it’s my little secret, though most fabriholics in Seattle have found it by now. 😉

Oogling all these fabrics gives me inspiration. 😎

(thank goodness for that toy station!) As always, it was a long wait for my son 😉

Thanks for stopping by! Happy (almost) Friday 🙂