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Quilters Lifestyle
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Field Notes on the Wild-Crested Quilter Bird
Birders keep a life list. Quilters keep a stash. The Quilter's Feathered Flock is where those two happy obsessions meet: the Quilt Hair Don't Care birds of Chic Quilter, mostly perched on ball caps, with Chaos Finch also spotted on a flask and a wine sipper. Consider this your notebook for identifying each one in the wild, which usually means the quilt shop parking lot.
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.
