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Yay! Done! (and Design Wall)
It's only the 1st of April and I'm done with the March UFO. I backed and bound it with sort of a light olive green fleece. I asked Joe what he thought of it, he asked who it was for. I said if you want...
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Design Wall Monday-April 9, 2012
Here is the quilting I have done on the SnW so far. Not much, and not very fancy, but it gets the job done. I don't know what I am going to do in the vertical sashing yet, but it will be simple too. I...
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Design Wall-April 16, 2012
We had an interesting morning...the snow was heavy and wet. We had about 6 inches and it was nasty, but beautiful to look at. The sky was beautiful and a lot of the snow is already melted.The quilt for...
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Painted Stairs
Here is the fun I've been having, painting and also trying to make a couple of rain jackets for Joe and me. We are going to Ireland this summer, and I understand it rains nearly every day, thus the...
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May UFO Challenge
The UFO for May is one I've had around a long time. This was a guild round robin sometime before 2003. I know because we went to Germany for two years that September, and I made this before...
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Seventy-Six
76 trombones, 76 days. A long time without blogging. I had some adventures in the mean time, and I hope to get back to quilting and blogging regularly.Let's see...I stopped at the end of April. In May...
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Back to it
I'm finally back to getting stuff done, working on the cat tree and a new top (not that I need another top, but it's fun...we do need the cat tree though, new cat.)We got Maggie a bit over a week ago....
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Progress-and Design Wall
I made one more hexagon, so four full hexagons left, then half and quarter ones. They are supposed to have the middle hexagon appliqued on, but I decided to piece them. I sew the hexagon sides to the...
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I'm A Little Weird
I am going on a quilt retreat next weekend. We are going to do a modified jelly roll race. We will have the long strip of strips sewn together before we begin, and then will make the rest of the top....
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Design Wall-September 17
I am working on a word quilt, my first. I don't know where I'm going from here...I don't know if there'll be more words or not, but I'm pretty pleased with the way this came out. The yellow isn't...
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Design Wall Monday September 24, 2012
I went to a guild retreat this weekend and this is what I made. I actually have more bits done than this, but this is what I have on the design wall right now. It is based on a free pattern from Judy...
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Because I'm Me-Jelly Roll Quilt Math
Because I am who I am I figured out how to figure out how many strips and how wide to make the strips for a particular size quilt. This is an excel spreadsheet and if you want to make one yourself...
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Peach Melba Layout
I think this is the layout I'm going with. There is only so much moving around I can do. There isn't anything that looks too much like a clump. Now to sew it all together.Sandie suggested the name....
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Peach Melba
The blocks are all together, now I have to decide what I'm going to do about the borders. In typical Judy fashion she has 8 borders, one which is pieced. If I add all the borders it will finish at 92 x...
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Jelly Roll Race Top
It didn't turn out as I planned, but I think it looks OK. The blob of light green on the left side toward the middle is not good. I think I'm going to add to the length and the width by using a trick...
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Design Wall Monday, 1 October 2012
See what I did! This is the first successful paper pieced thing I've ever made...and I like it. I finally bit the bullet and followed some instructions. Make the cut pieces 3/4" larger than needed....
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Paper Piecing Fear and Loathing-Aid
I have, up until yesterday, always hated paper piecing. I have only experienced frustration and have never been successful. I had looked at books, tried different papers, bought videos, but still no...
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What does this....have to do with that?
What does this.......have to do with that?Well, Joe asked that I make some bacon peanut brittle, so I did.He thinks it's just marvelous, and I think it's OK. I don't really notice the bacon flavor, so...
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Another Plan
The next plan. I like it. I saw something similar online, but at the moment can't remember where (just Googled "modern alphabet quilt" and came up with this one by Tula Pink, here ) and decided I could...
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Design Wall Monday, Oct 8, 2012
Here is the boot pattern, almost done. The border and cord are actually drawn in this picture because I don't have a new picture yet, but that is the what I want it to look like. I'm still sewing down...
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