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Quilters Lifestyle
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Every Quilter Keeps a Secret Stash. Pip Patchlet Keeps Hers in a Flask
Ask any quilter where the stash lives and you will get a knowing smile. Under the guest bed, behind the winter coats, in the bin cheerfully labeled tax papers . The Feathered Flask Flock is the Quilt Hair Don't Care flock on flasks, the one thing in the sewing room made for keeping a little something tucked away. Pip Patchlet leads the way, and she turns up on a ball cap and a wine sipper here as well.
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.
