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Pin Banner Tutorial

Batwings + Bowties Block

Binding Perfectly Mitered Corners

Binding // Joining Ends

Patchwork Diamond Tutorial

Creating Plastic Templates

Halloween Quilt Tutorial

Hoop Art Tutorial

Patchwork Bear Pillow Tutorial

Quilting Happiness Goodies

The Interesting Point Quilt

Options For Sewing Curves

Travel Sewing Case Add-Ons

Happy Houses Embroidery

Photo Mini Quilts

Creating a Photo Pillow

Simple Photo Tote

Fall Stitching Needle Card

Coffee Time Cross-Stitch

Little Cottage Mug Rug

Half Square Triangles

Bunny Ornament Tutorial

Somerset Ornament Tutorial

Block Printing – The Basics

Simple Pin Cushion

Sometimes Crafter // Applique Block

Appliqué Block

Sometimes Crafter // Square in a Square Block

Square In A Square Block

Stacked {Whatever} Block

{Cheaters} 8 Point Star

Organizing & Folding Fabric

Adventures In Hexagons

Hexagons Tutorial

Cathedral Window Block

Trick or Treat Tote + Pattern

Patchwork Kindle Case

String Quilt Block

Paper Pieced Block

Binding Tutorial Part 3

Binding Tutorial Part 2

Binding Tutorial Part 1

Fabric Scrap Basket Pressing

Fabric Scrap Basket Tutorial

Drunkard’s Path Block

Egg Cup Pincushion

Easy Fabric Labels in Word

Zigzag Block Tutorial

Coasters Tutorial

Hot Pads Tutorial

Hourglass Blocks Tutorial

Crochet Hook Case

Quick Burp Cloth Tutorial

Disappearing 9-Patch

  • Please take not: you should all send me chocolate when sending me your quilts. Thank you. 😂 You all have @quiltaposy to thank for now setting the bar high. Thank you, Karen. 😘 #sometimescrafterlongarmquilting
  • Day 26 - Favorite finish. Pretty sure this was last years favorite finish, too. I just love my Halloween quilt I made a few years ago. So does JoJo. She has claimed this quilt over and over again. It comes on every fall camping and road trip, and she is always laying on it every chance she gets. I pretty much just keep it out in the car so she can have easy access to it. (Yes, she road trips with us. Trust me, its safer on my closet if she does.) I don't know the official name of the block, but I call it 'Batwings and Bowties' and you can find the free tutorial for it over on my blog under the tutorials link. Also, this was the first quilt I quilted with Quilters Dream Puff and I still just love it! The batting was awesome and I keep thinking I need to buy a roll for the studio. Love, love, love the batting. . #igquiltfest #sometimescraftertutorials #sometimescrafterpatterns #sometimescrafterlongarmquilting #batwingsandbowties #kittygeorgette #catsonquilts #quiltersdreambatting #gammillstatlerstitcher #gammillquilting
  • Day 25 - While quilting I like to... It depends on the time of day. During the morning, I listen to nothing but my thoughts. During the vast majority of the day I have some high bpm music on (I love trance) and in the evenings I usually find a show to put on. Something I don't have to pay attention to, just some background noise, otherwise I spend more time watching than sewing (Game of Thrones....Supernatural...I'm looking at you). #igquiltfest #sometimescrafterstudio
  • Normally I'm not a theme-on-theme quilter, but I really wanted tacos for this quilt. I couldn't find a taco panto so I designed one myself. I call it Taco Tuesday. And lucky for me, @heathersnacks husband picked this for his quilt! So excited about this quilt! #sometimescrafterlongarmquilting #longarmquilting #gammillstatlerstitcher #gammillquilting
  • Day 24 - Lables. I almost never label quilts. Only if I have to (on pain of death) for a show or publication. Even when I have to do that, it's as quick and painless as possible. Fabric pen on a scrap of white fabric. Done. I searched through all the quilts I have in the studio (cause none in the house have labels) and only found two. This one I just basted down. Not even a proper stitch. 🤷‍♀️ Sometimes I just write it on the back side binding if I can get away with that. I'm usually in such a hurry to finish up my own quilts that I don't have time to think about it. Heck, I have about a half dozen quilts that still need the binding stitched down to the back. Not enough hours in the day. #igquiltfest #quiltlabel
  • We cracked open our first goose egg of the season this morning. Next to it is one of our chickens eggs. Same size as you would buy at the store. Crazy, huh! Scroll for more pictures to see a better size comparison with my hand and the eggs in their shells. Goose eggs taste the same as duck eggs to me. Maybe slightly richer. People always ask how duck/goose eggs taste compared to chicken eggs...they basically taste the same. If you ate one, and didn't know it it was a duck egg, you wouldn't know the difference. I also think our chicken eggs taste slightly richer, so I think that more has to do with their free range diet than species of bird. My mom swears the Magpies (aka the bitchy French girls) eggs taste the best of all the ducks. I also think baking with duck eggs (and how great it is) has more to do with their bigger size than any big difference in the egg whites make up. So if I'm baking with chicken eggs I always just add an extra one to the bowl. I will always choose duck/goose eggs over chicken eggs. Always. #lucyandherducklings #charlotteandtheducklings #sometimescrafterfarm #gooseegg #freerangeeggs #duckeggs #homesteading
  • Day 23 - Stash. This is my more recent stash of fabric. The last 5 years or so. The rest of it is in a cabinet in the laundry room currently. Which bugs me. As I mentioned more than once before. I really need to figure that out. This is my more current stash and its smaller in scale. I don't buy much fabric anymore because I don't have a lot of time to sew, so I don't want to add when I can't subtract, so I keep impulse buys to a minimum these days. Even if I dont use it much, its sure is pretty to look at! #igquiltfest #sometimescrafterstudio
  • Day 22 - Special Finish. Another prompt I had a hard time with. I don't have a quilt that I've made that I look at as being a really special finish. This one comes the closest and the reason being it was one of my first quilt pattern releases when I started selling my own patterns. I think I had a few other patterns, but this was my first big quilt pattern release. It was really special because at the time it wasn't a block design anyone had put together yet. Hard to believe, but I've still yet to stumble across this in antique and vintage quilt catalogs. I wont be surprised if it's out there, though. I keep meaning to update the fabrics and release the pattern with more size options. There just isn't enough hours in the day for everything. To this day Retro Flowers still my most popular pattern. I love seeing everyone's versions and it's even been ripped off a few times by other designers, so I feel like that means you made it when that happens. 😆 #igquiltfest #sometimescrafterpatterns #retroflowersquilt
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I’m Christina Lane, the Sometimes Crafter since 2008. I am a professional Longarm Quilter, pattern designer, quilting instructor, and co-author of Quilting Happiness. Homeschooling, gardening, caring for the bees, ducks, geese, chickens, rabbit and cats take up most of my free time!

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