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A new free quilt border calculator has been added to MyWebQuilter.com .  The quilt border calculator allows up to 5 borders and calculates quilt size, number of strips to cut and fabric requirements.  Calculations are provided for straight grain seams, mitered seams with straight corners and mitered seams with mitered corners. I hope you enjoy using this new quilt border calculator as well as the other quilt design software at MyWebQuilter.com . Amber  

The Quilt Backing and Binding Calculator at MyWebQuilter.com has been updated!  The two calculators are now on separate pages.  The Binding Calculator now lets you specify the binding width and gives directions for cutting straight grain or bias bindings.   Check it out!

Now that our quilt show is over and the weather is turning colder, I am finding time to add new features to www.MyWebQuilter.com .  I have had several people asking to be able to set the "extra fabric for quilting" on the quilt backing and binding calculator.  Previously the calculator included 3 extra inches on all sides for quilting.  Now you can change this value in the Additional Settings. Check out this new feature on the quilt backing calculator!  Happy Quilting Amber

I am the co-chairperson for my guild's quilt show that is coming up in 3 weeks!  I am starting to get very, crazy busy with things to do for the show! Quilts at the Bay will be Oct 14-15, 2011 at Bay College in Escanaba, MI .   The show will include: Handcrafted Quilts on Display Quilting Demonstrations    Raffle Baskets Vendors Viewers Choice Award Raffle Quilt  Quilt Challenge Live Music Featured Quilter In addition to the actual quilt show we are hanging quilts in the windows of businesses in downtown Escanaba and Gladstone.  Can't blog for long...  have to email the paper information about our featured quilter, deliver posters, and start organizing my own quilts for the show! Happy quilting, Amber

I just added the traditional quilt block Lady of the Lake was just added to MyWebQuilter.com . Click here for the free quilt block pattern. Click here for a free quilt pattern using Lady of the Lake. Happy Quilting Amber

Last fall my art quilting group had a program using Lenore Crawford's fabric art collage technique. One of our members had attended a class by Lenore and showed us the technique. In that meeting, I created the summer and fall mini collages in the picture below. This past weekend I finished the seasons adding winter and spring. It is a fun, fast and easy technique. I found nice shadow boxes on sale at Michael's . The shadow boxes fit very nicely on the shelves in my living room! This past weekend was great! I had fun attending Wicked in Appleton, WI and then came home to watch the Packers win! I live about 2 hours north east of Green Bay so we are all Packer fans here! Happy Quilting! Amber For more than 200 free quilt block patterns, free quilt design software and free quilting calculators visit MyWebQuilter .com .

I have been so busy with fun activities lately that I have missed my blogging! Ski season has arrived! I joined a ladies downhill ski club and am going weekly to Marquette Mountain. I have downhill skiied only a few times before and broke my arm six years ago skiing in Montana. I was VERY nervous about trying downhill skiing again! Here is our beginner ski class as the top of the chair lift. We made it up AND down safely! I am the one on the right with the new red helmet! Back to quilting and sewing....a few weeks ago, I blogged about attending a pin cushion doll class. It was very fun! Paulette is an excellent teacher. Here is my "girl". Sally attended the class with me. Here is a gang of girls...from the left they are Paulette's class sample, Sally's doll, and then mine. We think Sally's looks like Barbara Streisand. Well today, I am off to visit Jerri's Quilt Patch in Norway, Mi. They are having a fantastic Superbowl sale that can't be resisted! Happy ...