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 | November 15, 2010
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| Introduction Package: Ruffled Roses is a medallion quilt. The center block is set on point and is surrounded by many borders. Each month, directions for various parts of the quilt will be provided online; your task is to print out the instructions and make whatever is called for. You can always modify the instructions, of course, to suit your skill level and your personal likes and dislikes. The finished quilt, as designed, measures approximately 87 inches square. There are twelve separate patterns. Each pattern includes blocks and/or border units, and assembly instructions. As you complete each set of units, your quilt top will grow until the final border is added. |
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 | January 01, 2011
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| Do purple roses really exist in Nature? Of course they do –they are believed to represent both enchantment and love at first sight. Perhaps that is why they are at the center of the Ruffled Roses quilt. The center block of this quilt is appliqued. If you do not do appliqué, feel free to use the same fabrics that you would otherwise use for the appliqué, and make a favorite 15-inch pieced block. Throughout the making of this quilt, you should feel free to modify your quilt in any way you desire. |
 | Instruction files are no longer available | Beloved Beauties Additional Instructions:
These directions will explain all the necessary changes if you are using the Beloved Beauties fabrics. Also included are pre-cutting directions in order to save larger pieces of fabric for the later months that will be useful for both kits. |
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 | February 01, 2011
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| This month, you will be adding two borders, and separating them with “floaters.”Floaters are small border strips – usually very narrow – that fill space between two pieced borders, so that the piecing “fits” onto the quilt center. The beauty of floaters is that they can also be used very effectively to visually separate borders, as well as to insert accent colors into a quilt top. |
 | Instruction files are no longer available | Margo's additional directions replaces one of the pieced borders with one wide floater and includes directions for folded corners to get perfect miters. She also shows how you can twirl your intersections on the lattice borders so they press really flat. You have options, and you may add some new tricks to your quilting tool belt. |
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 | March 01, 2011
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| Sue loves swag borders, especially when they pop into the middle of a quilt, like an afternoon surprise, instead of waiting to appear along the sunset edge of the quilt. This month’s swag border softens the overall look of the quilt with its ruffled edge. |
 | Instruction files are no longer available | If you are using the Beloved Beauties kit follow Margo's additional instructions to see which fabrics to use. She also gives instructions for mitering a border and for adding a line of mini-piping in the swag units. |
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 | April 01, 2011
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| This month, another border will be added: a four-patch border. Making a scrappy border out of an assortment of fabrics is a great way to make your eyes dance across the surface of a quilt. After you finish the four-patch border, you will also make four pieced swag border units. These will be used in Month 12, but starting them now will make the work of Month 12 much easier. |
 | Instruction files are no longer available | Follow these instructions if you are using the Beloved Beauties kit. Margo explains which fabrics are substituted on the pieced swag units and shows how to twirl the intersections of the 4-patches to make everything lay nice and flat. |
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 | May 01, 2011
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| This month you will be making four baskets, along with a portion of the outer pieced swag border. These baskets will be used in a border of baskets; you will eventually make a total of twenty-four baskets. |
 | Instruction files are no longer available | Margo has some suggestions for making your own fabric choices for the basket blocks we will make this month. Have fun with it! |
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 | June 01, 2011
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| This month you will be making another four baskets and three more portions of the pieced swag border. |
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 | July 01, 2011
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| It’s not a surprise, or at least it shouldn’t be: this month you will be making four more baskets and three more pieced swag border units. |
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 | August 01, 2011
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| This probably sounds like a broken record… but once again, you will make four baskets and three pieced swag border units. |
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 | September 01, 2011
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| This month, you will take a break from making baskets, but you’ll still be making swag border units. The basket border, when it is finally assembled, will have cornerstones of appliqued bouquets. |
 | Instruction files are no longer available | Did you pre-cut your background fabric for this month’s appliqué? Enjoy a break from pieced baskets this month and make the appliquéd corners for your basket border |
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 | October 01, 2011
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| You’re getting closer and closer to the end of this quilt-making journey – after making four more baskets and three more pieced swag units, you will only have two more months before you’re finished. |
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 | November 01, 2011
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| More baskets and pieced swag border units are on the agenda for this month – but this month you will complete all of the basket blocks, assemble the basket borders, and add them to your quilt center. When the work of Month 11 if finished, you will have one more month ahead of you – at which point you can complete your quilt. |
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 | December 01, 2011
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| You’re almost done; with just a few more pieced swag border units to make, a small pieced border with floaters, and four appliqued cornerstones, your quilt will be complete. |
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