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Sunday Snapshot: Sometimes My Cat Drawings Look Like Cats! | Red-Handled Scissors

Sunday Snapshot: Sometimes My Cat Drawings Look Like Cats!

I’m very (very) slowly learning how to draw. And, mostly the results have been pretty disastrous. Or really funny. Or both. But, every once in a while, the planets (or the hefeweizens) align, and one of my cat sketches actually ends up looking like a cat! (Hooray!) And so I carry on.

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Tutorial: Simple Lavender Sachets with the AccuQuilt GO! Baby | Red-Handled Scissors

Tutorial: Simple Lavender Sachets with the AccuQuilt GO! Baby

Protect your closet, fabric totes, and yarn stash from pesky fiber-eating moths—and keep things smelling clean and fresh while you’re at it—with a set of easy-to-make lavender sachets! For this tutorial, I used my new GO! Baby Fabric Cutter [this is an affiliate link], which was provided by the generous folks at AccuQuilt. (You may …

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Sunday Snapshot: The Mysterious Incident of the Cat and the Quilt Top | Red-Handled Scissors

Sunday Snapshot: The Mysterious Incident of the Cat and the Quilt Top

Yesterday morning, I heard a loud rustling and falling noise coming from the studio. Upon further investigation, this is what I found sitting on the floor in front of my worktable. Now, I could be wrong, but that certainly looks like the face of a guilty cat to me..

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Your Grandmother's Quilts (Or Not): alt_quilts at the American Folk Art Museum | Red-Handled Scissors

Your Grandmother’s Quilts (Or Not): alt_quilts at the American Folk Art Museum

One of my favorite things about quilting is how incredibly versatile, rich, and relevant such a traditional art form can be to today’s makers. I love that an art quilt can look right at home hanging between an antique log cabin quilt and a top pieced of paper, and that all three will have drawn …

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