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AROUND HERE: JULY 2022

In the video below, you’ll find a quick round up of what’s been going on in my life lately: my quilting projects, vacation, books I’m reading, and a new quilting supervisor! Please leave me a comment and let me know what summer quilting projects you’re working on. I’d love to know!

You can find all of the videos for the current Summer Scrappy Sizzler QAL on my YouTube Channel at DKohn Designs: https://youtu.be/yCAVjeJdZp8.

I’d love to hear from you! Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel and tell a friend too. That is the best way for you to support my small quilting business. Thank you for watching!

Contact: debbie@dkohndesigns.com

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Summer Scrappy Sizzler Quilt Along – Week #3 – Blocks #2, #3, #4

Hello Creative Adventurers! It’s Week #3 of my FREE Summer Scrappy Sizzler Quilt Along for June and July 2022. This week’s blocks are all Half-Square Triangle (HST) blocks – 3 different designs! Be sure to download the FREE* pdf of these 3 Block patterns on my website at DkohnDesigns.com/free patterns. In the video below, you’ll learn:

  • 3 easy ways to mark your Half-Square Triangles (HSTs) for Stitching
  • How to sew a Half-Square Triangle (HST) block
  • 3 ways to square up Half-Square Triangles (HSTs)
  • How to arrange your HSTs for each of the 3 designs and sew them together
  • Lots of tips and techniques along the way

Click on the video below for all the details:

Here is a link to the FREE pdf of the Quilt Along Overview, Fabric Requirements and Schedule:  https://dkohndesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/DKohn-Designs_pattern_Summer-Scrappy-Sizzler-QAL_Week1_Overview-and-FR.pdf You can also find it by going to the Free Patterns tab above here on my website. That’s where you’ll also find the FREE* block patterns for the Quilt Along.

*Be sure to download all of the QAL information and block patterns BY AUGUST 31, 2022. After that, they will all be consolidated into a single pattern with additional quilt sizes and then be offered for purchase in my Shop at Dkohndesigns.com after September 1, 2022.

You can find all of the videos for the QAL on my YouTube Channel at DKohn Designs: https://youtu.be/yCAVjeJdZp8.

Please leave me a comment and let me know if you are sewing along with me. I’d love to hear from you! Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel and tell a friend too. That is the best way for you to support my small quilting business. Thank you for watching!

Contact: debbie@dkohndesigns.com

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Around Here: Ukraine, Quilt Projects, QuiltCon 2022, Books & Roses

Hello Creative Adventurers! Along with all of you, my mind is on the terrible war unfolding in Ukraine right now. I am participating in Quilters Stand For Ukraine. I encourage you to check out this project being hosted by Pat Sloan of Ilovetomakequilts.com. I am also donating to several international charities that are currently helping with critical humanitarian needs in Ukraine and neighboring countries. Please consider contributing with your thoughts, prayers, time, skills and donations as your circumstances allow.

This week’s video gives you a quick update on some things going on around here in my life. I’ve got an update on my Free Pattern Giveaway. I’m showing you several of my recent quilt projects as well as a few inspiring quilts from QuiltCon 2022 last month. I’ve got some book recommendations (I’ve been reading a lot recently!) and a quick summary of my rose bush pruning adventure. Click on the video below or go to my YouTube Channel to view it there.

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AROUND HERE: OCTOBER 2021

This is a quick round up of what’s going on at DKohn Designs and in my personal life. (I am NOT paid or compensated in any way for, or by, the websites, people, or YouTube Channels featured in this blog post. They are simply ones that I personally am enjoying and think you might too.) Please also visit my YouTube Channel at DKohn Designs for lots of quilting and DIY goodness!

I’m ENJOYING… the cooler weather (finally!).  The Phoenix, AZ, USA metro area is, at long last, below 100 degrees F for the high each day.  Sometimes I even roll the car windows down and enjoy the breeze!

I’m SEWING… a second version of my latest quilt pattern (and video tutorial!) to be released later this month.  The first version is an Autumn theme, (sneak peek below) while this second version is in jewel-toned solids to give it a decidedly modern vibe.

I’m also finishing up the details for my FREE Mystery Christmas Quilt Along that started last Friday, Oct. 8th, 2021. Click here for a link to the FREE Fabric Requirements pdf Free Patterns – DKohn Designs or go to the Patterns tab here on DKohn Designs.com.

Also, check out my Week #1 – Fabric Requirements and Overview video below or on my YouTube Channel at DKohn Designs and the companion blog post here at dkohndesigns.com with all the exciting details!  I’ll be sewing the Red Barn Christmas fabric line by Sweetwater for this Christmas Quilt Along quilt.

I’m WATCHING…several YouTube Channels that I love: AnaWhite.com  (Ana is an Alaskan woman who makes building wood projects easy to understand and simple to do.),

Sailing LaVagabonde.com (An Australian family that sails the world in a Catamaran full-time.),

and Arne & Carlos.com (A Norwegian couple who do knitting tutorials and lots of videos about life and culture in Norway.

I’m INSPIRED BY…Susan Carlson, quilt artist extraordinaire – go watch this video of her working on a gorgeous portrait of her son! Sams’ Moon Portrait: Adding Even More Sheers – YouTube

Also inspired by…this animated video by ChouChou about how to make gummie candy: ChouChou How-To: Fruit Gummies (Pâtes de Fruits) – Bing video

and the latest quilt tutorial by Jenny Doan of Missouri Star Quilt Co which shows how to make an easy Bookcase quilt – this is on my quilting bucket list since I’m such a bibliophile! Make a “Book Review” Quilt with Jenny Doan of Missouri Star Quilt Co (Video Tutorial) – YouTube

I’m BAKING… Bacon Cheddar Tomato Scones (video and blog post coming soon!)

I’m MAKING…prints on paper and fabric in an on-line Printmaking class I’m taking with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer of Balzerdesigns.com.  Join her PrintInktober adventure here:  Balzer Designs: Hooray! #PrintInktober Starts Tomorrow! (typepad.com)

I’m READING… the latest mystery set in Arizona by JA Jance called Unfinished Business (part of her Ali Reynolds series)

and another fun romance/mystery novel by Mary Kay Andrews called Hello, Summer.

I’m LOOKING FORWARD TO…several family birthday celebrations in the next month, and going on our annual pumpkin picking event with my niece and nephew and their family.

Happy Autumn (Northern Hemisphere folks)! Happy Spring (Southern Hemisphere folks)!