Get ready, Quilters!

An awesome quilter wrote in last week and asked about the Fabric Postcards for the Troops project.

Now that I have wrapped up the DVD project, and quilters can get a step-by-step DVD showing a quilt project from start to finish in an easy-to-follow format, it's time to focus once again on our troops in Iraq.

Even though it seems months away, Thanksgiving will be upon us before we know it. And what a grand time to send thanks to our troops.

I have scoured my quilt block books for block patterns that are easy to make and have turkey in the name, and have come up with four of them. I am in the process of putting the patterns together in fabric postcard size, and will be writing step-by-step instructions for one of them.

These patterns can be paper pieced (foundation pieced) or patchwork pieced. The step-by-step instructions will be for paper piecing, so our beginning quilters can get a taste of paper piecing as a technique. (just don't eat this turkey - it probably won't taste very good anyway!)

Look for the patterns and announcement of the project the last week in September. This will give everyone 4-6 weeks to complete their fabric postcards, and send them along so we can forward them to the troops abroad.

All the goodies will be found at:

http://www.fabric-postcards.com/

Check back the week of September 25 (whoa! That's my mom's birthday - I won't reveal her age, though!)

Happy Quilting!

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Penny is a quilter of more than 24 years who seeks to interest new quilters and provide them with the resources necessary to create beautiful quilts.

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