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Quilters on the Inklingo Yahoo group have been making some fantastic blocks à la Lucy Boston for their Patchwork of the Crosses quilts. We have put a small selection in a slide show and set them to music, which seemed appropriate, since Lucy Boston was famous for the wartime concerts she held at Hemingford Grey during the Second World War.

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Monkey predicts that you are going to need to make some HST (Half Square Triangles) for Friday’s block on the new Inklingo Sampler Blog. We love what Tilde is doing on her blog, and are sewing along with her. Monkey stars in a new 3-minute video.

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Inklingo is amazingly simple to use, once you know how to find your way around. In this three-minute video, Linda and Monkey highlight some of the cool ways to navigate in Adobe Reader.

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“Lucy Boston Patchwork of the Crosses” (the book by Linda Franz) made another appearance at Hemingford Grey. The reprint of Diana Boston’s “The Patchworks of Lucy Boston” will be available this month too!

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Are you ready to get started with Inklingo?

Tilde in Copenhagen has created the Inklingo Sampler blog with instructions for making a sampler with various Inklingo shape collections. It is a brilliant idea, and Monkey and I are following along. The sampler blocks are a great way to get started with Inklingo, and fun for experienced Inklingoists too.

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Cathi Godwin has been posting all of her POTC blocks on her blog, Quiltobsession, and she gave me permission to show the one that is my favorite. Thank you, Cathi!
Cathi’s POTC is a gorgeous example of the effectiveness of fussy cutting a few of the hexagons in each block, and Monkey decided I should feature [...]

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Inklingo is NOT just for hand piecers, but Monkey is a hand piecing snob, and we both love Jane Austen, so. . .

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