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Have you all heard of Amy Ellis of Amy Creative Side ?  

You have, fantastic! You haven't met Amy...yet?

She is hosting a 2013 QAL featuring this wonderful new pattern,

"DANCING STARS"

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How cute is this? 

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Dancing Stars is another scrap eater quilt!

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Amy has included info for a variety of sizes so whatever you want to stitch up from a table runner to a Queen size quilt it's there and lots in between.

How sweet is that of Ms. Ellis!

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If you don't have scraps there's kits available as well,

just click on the link up at the top and you'll be taken to the places you need to go

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If you love paper piecing or want to give it a try, you're going to love this pattern!

Yep, it's a paper piece pattern.

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There's a tutorial available if you've never pp'd before ;)

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REMEMBER WHEN...

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You pulled these out on a rainy/snowy day and just coloured?

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Have you seen some of the amazing works that have popped up in blogland

using the crayon technique?

I wanted to try this out but was, frankly, worried I was going to screw it up royally.

Wellll...I took the bull by the horns and grabbed a box of my boy's crayons

and coloured!

This is the result

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How fun is this?

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I drew in the shingles and detailed the picture with a fabric marker.

Can you see the difference it makes from the left to the right?

Then I took some black perle cotton and started to randomly hand quilt this piece.

I then stitched in 13 ( for  Halloween, heehee) stars around the picture.

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I think the house was the most fun on this picture but I'm thrilled with the way it turned out.

My DQS partner was very happy too!!

Thank you, Jules!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL!!

PLAY SAFE!

Bordered Star...Accomplished

I'm beginning to "get" paper piecing.

I did have a bit of a time with this but once I slowed down and took my time,

it all came together!

This will be the start of a Christmas project so it's a good thing I started now!

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Have a great day stitching away.