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Patchwork and Quilting: Building Better Habits

Written by Diane Harris on December 17, 2017. Posted in Blog, How-tos and Ideas, Quilt Lifestyle

I’ve been working to break a few bad habits and build some better ones related to my quilt making. It’s never easy to break a bad habit. It’s not easy to form a good habit, either!

The bad habit I want to break is finishing the piecing of a top only to fold it up and put it in the “to be quilted” pile. Sometimes it doesn’t see the light of day for months, even years! I have more than my share of UFOs already, and I am determined not to add any more.

This week’s finished quilt top is “Felicity,” a design by Kate Spain.

So the new habit I want to build is this: when I finish the top of a project, I immediately prepare the backing. This means going to my bin of backing fabrics (cuts of 3 to 7 yards mostly bought on sale) and finding something that will work, or finding several smaller pieces that can be pieced into something interesting.

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One Hundred Small Quilts #1

Written by Diane Harris on December 1, 2017. Posted in Blog, How-tos and Ideas, Quilt Lifestyle, Trunk Shows, Uncategorized

I’m going to start sharing my quilts here in short posts. They’ll give you an idea of what my trunk shows are like, which is the thrust of my business, Stash Bandit: I’m a speaker and a teacher on the topic of quilt-making.

Nested Nicks by Diane Harris. Photo by Mellisa Karlin Mahoney. Used with permission.

When a quilt (or several) intrigues you, I hope you’ll visit my Trunk Shows page, or get in touch via Booking Inquiries. You can email me, too: diane@stashbandit.net. Let’s Talk Quilts! 

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Hot Mess Christmas Quilt

Written by Diane Harris on October 25, 2017. Posted in Blog, How-tos and Ideas, Trunk Shows

I made a quilt and everything went wrong.

Maybe you’ve done the same. It was an exercise in frustration but I learned some things, and some of the most egregious mistakes won’t be evident to others.

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