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Quilters Lifestyle
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Meet Penny, the Penguin Whose Hair Is Mostly Quilt
Chic Quilter has a mascot, and she takes the job very seriously. Penny the Quilting Penguin is the collection built around her: round black glasses, a very determined little beak, and a hairdo made of patchwork scraps that stopped behaving years ago. Her motto rides along on most of the art, Quilt Hair Don't Care , and she lives it with total commitment.
Latest Articles
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A Lion, a Giraffe and an Octopus Walk Into a Quilting Bee
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
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
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.
