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Quilters Lifestyle
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Most Likely to Buy More Fabric, and Other Flock Superlatives
Judy @
Every class has a yearbook, and every quilt guild quietly hands out superlatives, even if nobody says them out loud. Birds of a Bobbin is the Quilt Hair Don't Care flock, nominated, voted on and honored, and mostly gathered on flasks, with Pip Patchlet, Lady Plumeadora and Noodle Beakman bringing a few other favorites along. Here is how the voting went.
Latest Articles
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A Lion, a Giraffe and an Octopus Walk Into a Quilting Bee
Judy @
Somewhere between the savanna and the sea, the animals have taken up quilting, and all of them agreed on the same three colors. Stitched in Coral, Teal and Indigo is the Chic Quilter collection from that wild quilting bee: painterly creatures hard at work on patchwork in warm coral, cool teal and deep indigo, a palette any quilter would happily pull straight from her stash. -
Romantic Walks, Unsupervised Afternoons and Other Quilter Confessions
Judy @
Ask a room full of quilters where the weekend went, and you will hear the same story told with a straight face and a bag of fat quarters. Quilter Wit is the Chic Quilter collection for those stories: all lettering, no apologies, and every line a joke your guild will recognize before you finish the sentence. -
Runway Report: Lady Plumeadora and the Boldest Hair of the Season
Penny the Mascot @
Fashion week has nothing on a quilt retreat. Somewhere between the third border and the binding, every quilter we know develops a hairstyle no stylist could book, and the birds of The Fancy Flock wear theirs like couture. This is the dressed-up corner of the Quilt Hair Don't Care family: Lady Plumeadora in full peacock splendor as the headliner, with the rest of the flock posed on wine sippers and ready for their close-up.