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I'm Marybeth O'Halloran, a professional longarm quilter living in the Puget Sound area. I'm passionate about patchwork and love the basic building blocks -- the atoms of quilt piecing

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The rectangular atom

February 27, 2013
by Marybeth O'Halloran
quilting atoms, quilts

Okay, we’re finally onto the next amazing quilt atom, and I consider that to be the rectangle.  If you think about it, rectangles are just…

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The first quilting atom -- the mighty square

The first quilting atom — the mighty square

January 2, 2013
by Marybeth O'Halloran
quilting atoms

The square is the basic building block of everything in quilting.  Which is interesting given the fact that beds are rectangular.  Still, most quilts use…

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