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A Quilty Cannery

Bringing the best of the past into today

Welcome! It’s a pleasure to welcome you to this passion project of mine... chronicling a quarantine spent growing and preserving food and making quilts to keep the people I love warm and cozy up. Whether you’re a beginner looking to learn, or a seasoned professional exploring new ideas, A Quilty Cannery is here to inspire. Check out the latest posts below.

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My First Gracie Quilt!

And the longarm journey begins... With the start of February, I decided to finally finish the "Among the Stars" top I had started in 2022....

Sewing Room - Decluttering Day 2

This week, I've been inspired by Karen Brown from Just Get It Done Quilts to begin the sewing room project I've been avoiding. She is...

First Stitches with Gracie

A new journey written in thread... I was watching some YouTubers and their free motion and longarm quilting advice. One thing that came...

Making Progress with Gracie

I made some progress on putting together my longarm and frame this long holiday weekend! Not as much as I was hoping, but I'm okay with...

Throw Back Thursday!

This week, it was finally time to take down the Christmas Quilt that was hanging in the front hallway. Normally, I put up either a...

Stacked Spools: Another Quilt is Done!

I finally made the time to put the binding on this Spools wallhanging that I started in 2022. This beautiful wallhanging (for the wall...

The Mad Hatter's Teapot!

Finally finished cutting out all the blocks for my Tula Pink tea party kit, and decided to start with the teapot blocks. The instructions...

Introducing Queenie

On the last day of 2022, my new longarm machine arrived, with little fanfare, on the front porch! My husband was backing out of the...

The First Quilting Project of 2023

Over the holidays, I was sewing and listening to a recent two- part podcast from the Quilter On Fire. In episodes 97 & 98, she was...

Introducing the Q-Zone Queen Frame!

In early December, I finally did it! I ordered a longarm quilting machine and frame. Because they were having a huge sale, I was told it...

The Quilts & Projects of 2022

A Year Spent in a Fabric Coma! Last year was a bit of a sewing production line for me! Here's a recap of what I believe are all of my...

2022 Quilting in Review

My temperature quilt is finished, and that means it's time for the year-end round of up my quilt and sewing projects, skills and tools. A...

Bossa Nova Block 6: The final block!

This is a very atypical color (well, series of colors) and pattern for me... and that might be why I am absolutely loving how it's...

Bossa Nova Block 5

And here it is, Bossa Nova Pineapple Quilt (A kit from Shabby Fabrics), block 5 of 6. I finished and got these sewed into the rows with...

Bossa Nova Pineapple Quilt, Block 4

And moving into the blues! Here is Block #4. The colors are really starting to pop, and we are 2/3 done! I decided against cutting all...

Bossa Nova Pineapple Quilt Block 3

Progress is continuing on the Bossa Nova pineapple quilt! Here is block 3: Using the ruler has made this a lot easier, but is not error...

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