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Oh Patti, what have you done?  I can't stop thinking about your red and white Two Color Quilt.  I couldn't copy you exactly, but I fiddled around in my stash and found a ton of blue and white Civil War reproduction fabrics.  I know I wasn't going to start any new projects but…….

Stop what you are doing, don't pass "Go", and click on this link to Patti's blog Quilting is My Passion.  http://www.quiltingisstillmypassion.blogspot.com/  Just look what she has done with her Two Color Quilt Challenge.  Go tell her how amazing she is! Her quilt is awesome, inspiring, gorgeous, and meticulously executed.  Oh my goodness.  What a quilt. …

I hope that wherever you are, you are enjoying a beautiful Memorial Day.  Wouldn't you know, after I got the notion last week to recover all the patio furniture cushions, we have had nothing but cool, overcast weather.  There was even a hint that it could rain!  So all my lovely new cushions are languishing…

Yesterday while I was at the UFO with my friends, two exciting things happened.  One, I finished the blocks for my Two Color Challenge!  Here you see my finished Union Square blocks.  Keep in mind, that the completed quilt top will have alternate blocks of the red and white toile and a border made up…

I have been plugging away at my Web Sampler Challenge.  In the photo above you see some of the blocks with the alternate blocks called for in the setting I chose.  The construction of the alternate blocks was totally easy, and would have been considerably more so if the instructions had suggested speedier piecing methods,…

Confession time.  I was getting quite frustrated with the Web Sampler Challenge and closed up my project box and put it away.  I was even considering dropping out of the Challenge I am doing with Perry, Cindy, Carol, and Lisa.  Let me tell you why, and what happened to make me pick it up again.…

Go have a look at the fabrics a couple of the gals are using for their two color quilt projects.  Yummy, yummy.  By the way, a couple of people have inquired if the two color project can be something other than a bed quilt.  Of course!  Anything goes.  Pillows, tote bags, table toppers, table runners–whatever…

On the sewing front, I have decided to make my Two Color Quilt Challenge quilt in red and white, using the Union Square block.  The quilt top only has nine blocks set on the diagonal, so I will have plenty of half square triangles left over to make a small Lady of the Lake quilt…

Lisa comes in six days!  Oh my gosh.  This house is a mess.  I can’t let her see it like this.  When my husband looked at me fondly this morning and said, "What shall we do with this beautiful Saturday?", he was definitely NOT expecting my answer.  "We need to shampoo the carpets".  He has…

I’ve been too busy to sew the past week, plus the weather has been too nice to be cooped up inside!  We spent all day Saturday out in the garden and look what is going on out there!  The photo above is our wisteria, not very well situated in a back corner of the yard. …