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Posts Tagged ‘Organic Wavy Line Quilting’

Simple Sewing and Sweetness

Posted on: December 14th, 2018 by Lorna McMahon

Photo Creds @austin1144 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! And making this sweet set of quilt and matching toddler pillowcase was so much fun!   Photo Creds @austin1144 The bird print is Robin in the Hood by Michael Miller Fabrics. The leafy green print for the accent is from the Hopscotch collection by Jamie […]

Rural Squirrel in Cotton Couture

Posted on: February 19th, 2016 by Lorna McMahon

Round and round and round they go…. These squirrels are playing in the snow! A rare sighting indeed. I was particularly surprised to have been able to capture the Rural Squirrel frolicking in it’s natural habitat. A contributing factor may be that it has been an unusually mild winter this year. And that my previously […]

Rural Squirrel in Brown Neutrals

Posted on: February 12th, 2016 by Lorna McMahon

Round and round and round they go…. These squirrels are playing in the snow! One squirrel is running up a tree on the left….. One squirrel is running down a tree on the right…..   And one squirrel is running across the ground on the bottom.     It was fun choosing fabrics from my […]

Family of Three for Quiltmaker Magazine

Posted on: December 1st, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

Look up. Waaaa-yyy up! Family of Three 40″ x 53″ by Lorna McMahon of Sew Fresh Quilts This little baby giraffe is surrounded by the love of family. Keeping watch, mom and dad are right there with him under a canopy of rich, green leaves. Family of Three. Earlier this year, I was contacted by Quiltmaker […]

Bear and Bees baby quilt finish

Posted on: July 24th, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

This little quilt makes me so happy! It was sure pretty quick to put together. Once I figured out how to piece those little bee blocks that is. I used my EQ7 program to work on this design and am so pleased with how much it looks like the EQ7 image. You can read more […]

Squirrels in the Park – Friday Finish

Posted on: May 29th, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

Now that the winter is over and the weather is nice, Teddy decided to come along for the photo shoot this week. Teddy really likes the squirrels and wanted to play in the park, but we settled on going out to the old hay wagon instead. The wagon was recently moved to the pasture field. […]

Pretty Butterfly Table Runner {a la snow bank}

Posted on: March 6th, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

Romeo. Romeo.  Spring. Spring.  Wherefore art thou, Romeo sweet spring? Feeling a great need for spring to start showing some signs of returning, I figured perhaps I can “will it to arrive” by employing some warm and happy thoughts.  So I dug out my Pretty Butterfly quilt pattern and the Architextures fat quarters I received […]

Island Batik – Sock Hop and Twin Baby Quilts

Posted on: January 25th, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

Welcome to Sew Fresh Quilts!  My name is Lorna and I so excited to be taking part in the Island Batik – Sock Hop Blog Hop. Each participant has featured their choice of Island Batiks new fabric collections in a Classic Block. To make my project, I had the pleasure of using these new batiks […]

Top 10 Tips for New Quilters – Quilting with your Walking Foot

Posted on: January 5th, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

Welcome to this week’s installment of the Top 10 Tips for new quilters – Quilting with your Walking Foot. For the complete line up of weekly tips, please see this page. Quilting with your Walking Foot: You have completed your latest quilt top!  Yes!  What an accomplishment. Now what? Lots of quilters shy away from […]