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December 10, 2017
in Blog, design, Fabric Review, folk art, quilt pattern, quilting, studio, windham fabrics
by ScottHansen
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Uppercase Vol 2

Uppercase Volume 2 by Janine Vangool for Windham Fabrics is what I call New Vintage Fabric. Brand New stuff, Current color combinations. Old Timey Feel. Just my cup of tea!! And since these are nice simple designs, some of them really function very well as solids. My FAVORITE kind of "solids" in that they really are a small print but they read like a solid against the wild florals and prints that I like to use. I think these prints will go equally well in a modern...

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Black Friday Sale, Blue Nickel Studios, Modern Quilt patterns
November 23, 2017
in Blog, Shop Sale!
by ScottHansen
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BlackFriday-TacoTuesday Sale

I have been so Thankful for all of the great People I have met over the years here on the blog, in my classes, over on Instagram and just everywhere this little Quilting Universe. So I thought I would just throw a little Black Friday Sale as a way of saying thanks! But why stop with just a Black Friday Sale? I thought I might as well cover EVERY other post-Thanksgiving Holiday Sale Event: Black Friday Small Business Saturday & Sunday Cyber Monday and just keep going all...

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Urban Folk Home Style, Mid century modern, New Vintage, Modern Old-fashioned, Sewing and Decor books, Banyan Batiks
November 22, 2017
in Blog, book review, design, folk art, musings
by ScottHansen
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Urban Folk Book Club

Book Club - Urban Folk Style Hey there! Today I want to talk a little bit about Urban Folk Style which is the tagline I made up a few years ago to describe the Blue Nickel vibe. I felt like I needed to define my style somehow, but all of the taglines I liked were being used by other designers. I came up with Urban Folk to cover my love of modern urban lines in design combined with my love of organic and wonky not-so-precise woodsy, folksy concepts....

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Great Quilting Blog, Informal Survey, Blue Nickel Studios, What Makes a Great Blog? Fabric Reviews? Interviews? Puzzles? Why do you read blogs?
November 19, 2017
in Blog, folk art, musings, quilting, shiloah cottage, studio
by ScottHansen
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What Is A Great Quilting Blog?

So my question for you today is this - Why do you stop by the Blue Nickel? How can the Blue Nickel become a great quilting blog? Or maybe the question is what can make the Blue Nickel blog a better quilting blog?  The other day I read a couple of my First posts (10 years ago!) and I thought about how much some things have changed and some have not changed that much. I think my "voice" is pretty much the same, but the...

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