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Cut & pieced myself, chose own colors, I quilted on regular machine. Making this quilt was a challenge, seemed complicated, but was fun putting it all together.

Used fusing material with fabric. After eight years of quilting, I finally decided to try making the “LONE STAR” I’ve admired for a long time. It was a challenge and took six months to finish. This is actually the first large quilt I made for myself. Did all the work on a regular sewing aContinue reading “Lone Star

Hedy Wessel

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Fussy cut diamond shaped pieces, “squiggly” quilted star, all machine quilted. When I saw a picture of the “Lone Star” on a book cover, I found it intriguing. I made the star using instructions in the book. I am a retired senior citizen and had only been quilting four years when starting this piece. ItContinue reading “Lone Star

Hedy Wessel

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Machine pieced, machine quilted, all 100% cotton. When I saw a photo of a quilt with similar diamond shaped pieces on the internet, I decided to make one myself and used left-over pieces of fabric from other projects and picked out colors that would make a ‘happy’ quilt. I added the side pieces as aContinue reading “Happy Quilts

Hedy Wessel

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Machine pieced, machine quilted, all 100% cotton. My son’s trip to Alaska inspired these two ‘birds on film’ hangings. He saw a large quilt on display at a quilt shop there and was impressed with the black and white borders (35 mm film strips) around the pictures. He took a photo of that quilt andContinue reading “Birds of Film

Hedy Wessel

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Handmade, machine quilted on a simple Singer machine on my own. Description of the wall hanging: 16 snapshots and photos were prepared (cropped, etc.) to fit into center of each “Ohio Star” pattern, using “Printed Treasures” printable fabric. The colors of stars are matching clothes or toys of my grandson, Sean, in each picture. ItContinue reading “Grandson’s First Five Years

Hedy Wessel

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