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Halloween and Block Re-Do
We had a wonderful neighborhood Halloween gathering at my son in law's house near us. The adults sat around a small campfire in the front yard and greeted the kids and their parents as they came by for trick or treating. Eva's dad lives in a neighborhood that goes all out for Halloween, to the…
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Sewcialites 2, Block 2
Typepad, my posting platform, has been experiencing technical issues for the past four days or so. Sorry for the interruption to my blog posts. I am holding my breath that this posts properly! I was so excited for Friday to arrive last week because that is the day the new free Sewcialites patterns are released…
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Flea Market Quilt Along
While I waited for Friday to arrive with the next Sewcialites block, I got back in touch with the Flea Market sew-along, which seems to have been abandoned by everyone who started it. It is a nice pattern/booklet by Lori Holt, and I really had high hopes for it to be a fun sew-along. I…
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Sewcialites 2 Has Begun
The Sewcialites 2 sew-along has begun. This sew-along is sponsored by the Fatquarter Shop, and there will be block tutorials on YouTube each week. If you aren't doing it, you should consider it. The weekly patterns are free on the FQS website each Friday. I planned to do the 9-inch block in Lella Boutique's Flower…
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Family Reunion Catch Up
I picked up this project again, which had been gathering dust on my smaller design wall. It is a Moda Bake Shop sew-along called Family Reunion. The pattern of the same name is in the Moda Bake Shop Rollin' Along quilt book. The Family Reunion pattern was designed by Christine Wald. There are some really…
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Practice Makes Perfect
I tried again yesterday to make an acorn mug rug. I do like this one better than the first one I made. I think the coordinating fabric frame sets off the acorn better. Isn't that fabric adorable? It is Bee's Life by Tara Reid for Riley Blake. I do love a bee-themed fabric. It turned…
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Some Sewing Is Happening
I'm not getting a lot done, but I find if I get up to the sewing room super early, like between 6:00 AM and 8:00 AM, I can get a thing or two accomplished. The block above is for Moda Blockheads 4, and is from a previous sew-along I did with Piecing the Past. I…
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Showing Moda Blockheads 4 Some Love
Now that the red white and blue blocks are off the design wall, I have room to put another sew-along's blocks up so I can look at them. And wouldn't you know, once they were all up there, I saw four or five that I just didn't like. It just goes to show that it…
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Putting Midnight Moon Away For Awhile
Midnight Moon is a sew-along I have joined where we make blocks in Halloween fabrics from Carrie Nelson's great book "Summer Moon". In the book, the instructions call for making each of the 28 or 30 blocks in THREE different sizes. The blocks are then framed with half square triangles for the very unique setting.…
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Do You Have Project Overload?
Do you have project overload? I've been thinking about how many concurrent quilting projects I have going on at the moment, and it's a lot. I know many of you are disciplined and just take on one quilting project at time. You work on it until it is finished without getting distracted by something new…