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Little fabric postcards have become very popular as a fun way for quilt makers to Send Quilt Greetings to Friends and Family Across the Miles. In addition, fabric postcards are a way to send a taste of the States to our troops around the world.

Friday, September 15, 2006


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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©2006, Penny Halgren
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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