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Creative Grids Log Cabin Trim Tool
I've been experimenting with a new ruler, and I have to say I really love it. That is the Creative Grids Log Cabin Trim Tool. I got the idea to make a Log Cabin Quilt from a Fatquarter Shop Video on how to make a Log Cabin quilt they called Hope Blooms. It is part of…
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Frivols #5
I am just eeeaaasssiiinnnggg back into sewing by making up a little Frivols project. I dived into Frivols #5, because I liked the French General fabrics. Never mind that I haven't done Frivols #1, 2, 3 or 4. I will get to them one of these days. This is the primary pattern for Frivols #5,…
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Live and Learn
I have been enjoying working with Sweetwater's holiday collection "Holly's Tree Farm". I got in a bit of sewing last week on two different projects. The one I like best of the two is "Paganini", a Schnibbles pattern by Miss Rosie's Quilt Co. Paganini is a great pattern with three or four different variations, which…
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Juggling Projects
Yesterday on the Moda Cutting Table blog, Carrie Nelson posted about having a slew of projects going on at once. She put the question out there to her readers, if they were a one project at a time person or if they juggled multiple projects at once. I am definitely in the "more the merrier"…
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Tumbling Leaves, a Few Changes
This is what is on my small design wall at the moment. Two adorable small quilts that need quilting. Lately I am so in the mood to make smaller, in season projects that I can get done in a day or so and get into my decor. The one on the upper left is Tidbit,…
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Stir Crazy Projects
Things have been pretty rough around here for the past week, as you all know. Most of my time has been spent scavenging for news of the fire on my laptop. I have not been able to concentrate very well on Viola, which really deserves my full attention. I picked it up and messed about…
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New Project I Could Not Resist
My work schedule has been tough this week, and I have not made much progress on Viola. Over the weekend, however, I did succumb to making a table topper in fabrics that are End of Summer/Early Fall in feeling. I figured once I had those little half square triangles made up I had better get…
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I Changed My Mind
I am still fiddling around with fabrics for the Viola project. I want those flowers to be really colorful and happy, and wasn't embracing my red/yellow/orange palette so much. I remembered that I had purchased these fat quarters of a collection called Mimosa by Robert Kaufman from Fat Quarter Shop some months back, and when…
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Viola Sew Along
I am excited about a new project I plan to embark upon soon. The pattern is Viola, a recent release by Miss Rosie's Quilt Co. (Carrie Nelson design). Carrie's patterns are now being published by Moda, and have a slightly different format. Same chatty instructions a la Carrie, but the patterns are now in a…
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Indecision in the Sewing Room
I am itching to start a new project, and I had it in mind that I would get back to my simplified Granny Square blocks. But then…. I was reading the blogs in my blog feed and found a recent post by the folks at Primitive Gatherings. You may or may not know that…