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Hourglass II
Machine-Pieced, Hand-Appliqued
from JoAnn Fabrics – Garden Impressions

Hourglass-II.jpg, originally uploaded by quiltnomad.
Here is the second block of the Hourglass.
You can see I did a better job of appliquing the teardrops.   With this block, I did the needle-turning first and basted the seam allowances down before appliquing the patches.  The first version, I attempted to perform [...]

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Hourglass-I.jpg, originally uploaded by quiltnomad.
This is an Hourglass block from JoAnn Fabrics 2006 QBOM – Garden Impressions.
This particular block is machine-pieced; the circles and tear-drops are hand-appliqued.
The circles were made by using a dime as a template. I cut a square of fabric that was approximately 1-1/2″ square, then basted and gathered it around a [...]

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