Category: Block of the week


  • AQS FALL Paducah Classes and a little more!!!

    As promised I am letting you know you can now sign up for my classes in Paducah this Fall/September…Here are the projects I am teaching…Click HERE to get the full details…I only have a few teaching opportunities outside of Primitive Gatherings left to do until maybe 2019…so don’t put this off as I may just…

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  • Summer Block of the Week 2017…

    Today Spring Quilt Market opens!!!! This is a big deal for those of us in business in the quilting world…We get to talk to the shop owners and share our designs and products, we also get to find new and exciting stuff for our shops to keep our stores fresh and full of ideas when you come…

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  • Block 5 Blockheads

    Hi Everyone!!!   Sorry for that pre-mature posting on Monday…As I was working on the post I slid over the publish button on the way to press the preview button and it posted!!!! YIKES…so please forgive me…for the sneak peak… I’m so glad you stopped by to visit today…I love teaching…so hopefully you might learn…

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  • Summer Mystery Blog Hop!!!

    Today is my day to post!!! Yes…I know the day is young…just after 12am…I’m so excited you are visiting to see what my block looks like…Make sure you collect all 13 parts to this Mystery… Here is my old washtub planted with my favorite all-time  wool flower to stitch…geraniums…and…nothing goes with geraniums like those little…

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  • Block 18 & 19 Triangle Gatherings

       TRIANGLE GATHERINGS BLOCKS HAVE BEEN REMOVED…BOOK COMING SOON! I hope you all are doing well this morning…I had a busy week..how about you?  So to celebrate the weekend I thought I would post two blocks and catch up to my agenda…Did I mention I LOVE seeing your blocks on Facebook!!…I am still trying to…

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  • Blockhead Block 1

    It’s week no. 1!!! Today Lynne from Kansas Trouble Quilts has posted her Whirligig block!!!  You need to go there for the pattern…I have taken fabrics from all of us and mixed them up…making blocks scrappy!!!  I love using everyone fabrics!!! We don’t get to do this very often…so it’s exciting!!!   I  am using…

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  • Questions…

    Ok…so I know some of you are new to this stitch-along sorta thing…but here is the info again… If you want to sign up for the blog posts- this will be emailed to you…you go to the blog lisabongean.com and on the side bar on the right…look for this… See where it says…you are following…

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  • Block 2…Triangle Gatherings & starch tutorial

    TRIANGLE GATHERINGS BLOCKS HAVE BEEN REMOVED…BOOK COMING SOON! There are some questions on starching…here is how I do it… I lay them flat on my ironing board on a towel… I starch them completely wet…saturated…I use a Faultless Heavy Starch( inexpensive) in a can and add a spray paint handle for easier spraying… I then…

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  • Triangle Gatherings..a few things..

    So there have been some questions…not too many but a few…so here we go.. first..I do not know how I’m going to set the blocks yet…I will be personally making 3 sizes and will be doing each one different… I want to make a runner with the 2″ blocks…and a quilt with the 3 inch…

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  • Block 1 Triangle Gatherings-I know you want to start asap…

      Click here for a printable pattern:   block-1 This is your pattern…so whether you are doing 2″, 3″ or 4″ blocks…doesn’t matter…You stitch the HST like this demo…Click HERE…and then stitch them into 4 rows…stitch the 4 rows into the block.  Press row seams open. If you are going to be stitching with the NEW…

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