Archive for December, 2020

The easy way to make custom quilt labels

I love quilting.

I hate finishing quilts.

I don’t know why, but when that quilt comes back to me, quilted, unbound, and unlabeled, my brain tells me that it’s done.

And finishing it off is a struggle.

But I have found that creating and printing my own quilt labels adds a bit more fun to the final touches required of this quilt-maker!

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How old frames + old baby clothes = something truly breathtaking

For some reason I tend to accumulate things.

As one who aspires to remove as many things from my life as possible, this is often a problem!

But there are a few things that have survived my constant de-cluttering efforts,

and a collection of those surviving things are baby clothes. I am the proud owner of one special newborn outfit from my daughter, myself, my husband, my father-in-law, and my mother. My sister even donated my mom’s first pair of tiny leather crib shoes to my heirloom-gathering efforts!

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A Behind the Seams look

I am a why person.

And if you know a why person or are a why person, then you might enjoy this new group of posts that I plan on creating for 2021! I’ve noticed that I really like seeing behind the scenes of my favorite brands and creators, so I thought it would be fun to give you a Rachel Rossi Behind the Seams experience in 2021. Every few weeks you can expect a closer look at the nuts and bolts of how a quilt pattern designer runs a business.

My family helping me create hundreds of Tea to Go Kits behind the scenes!
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…thank goodness!

Image by Sofia Iivarinen from Pixabay

As we leave 2020 in the dust and look forward to what 2021 might hold, I find myself planning and scheming, hoping and dreaming. I want to share some of what you’re going to be seeing in the next year as I make some big changes and see what you’d like to see!

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