Fun in the Mail!

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I guess you could say I�m �Tying One On!� In a batik way, of course!

My friend Scott Hansen of Blue Nickel Studios has a new fabric line out, Tie One On by Banyan Batiks and he asked me if I wanted to play with some scraps.

Catch Scott�s story behind his fabric line on his website HERE.

Did he even NEED to ask?! What a silly question!

The small squishy envelope arrived yesterday � as I was handing off tubs and tubs of outgoing Quilter�s Date Keeper and Quilty Pencil Set packages to my postal person, she handed me this envelope and I ran inside with much anticipation.

I LOVE batik fabrics � since returning from Bali a few years back after learning the painstaking artistry that goes into each and every one of a kind piece, I�ll never look at a batik without examining the pattern, and going through the process in my head � for instance:
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