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Spring Doings
Just in time for Easter! My little State Fair table topper got bound and placed on my dining table. I love the spring color palette, and will be enjoying this one for many months to come. My dining table did not see any Easter action this year. We gathered at my dad's house, 18 of…
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Windmills: Change of Plan?
I am back from my little Spring Break with family, and got back into the sewing room for a couple of hours over the weekend. I had started a new project, "Windmills", before I left, but was not happy with the jumble of prints and patterns. This is what the quilt is supposed to look…
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Ahhhhh
Just what was needed. A break from 36 degree mornings and constant rain. It is beautiful here in Palm Desert, and I wish we could stay two weeks rather than one! Look how considerate the clouds are: they stay politely back behind the mountain range and don't interfere with the sunshine. It can be cool…
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Time for Spring Break
Sorry my posting is sporadic this week. It will be next week as well! Can you guess from the photo what is going on here? It's Spring Break and we are headed somewhere warm. I've got my sun hat, my sunscreen, sun glasses, and a selection of good books to read by the pool.…
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Windmills: Getting Organized
I worked on Windmills quite a bit this weekend, mostly prepping fabric and cutting and getting organized. The blocks required are pretty simple-hourglass blocks, pinwheels made from half square triangle units, and flying geese. It seemed like it took ages to get to the cutting stage. With the wet weather we have had, starching, drying,…
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Pinwheels and Hourglass Blocks
Just revel in these gorgeous fabrics for a moment. Ahhhh. Aren't they just the best? The darker fabrics are mostly Rachel Remembered by Betsy Chutchian, and the lighter ones are from my stash. I absolutely love those blues and golds. And of course the reds and browns. But those golds…. It's an old Bonnie Blue…
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Favorite Notions Part Three
Welcome back to my sewing room, for a tour of some items that I love using. The strange looking item in the photo above is not a sculpture. It is a standing thread holder, given to me some years back by a friend. It isn't possible to fit the larger more economical thread spools onto…
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Favorite Notions Part Two
I have so many favorite quilting tools and notions that I had to break my post up into chapters! In the photo above is my Fiskars rotating cutting mat. I have a larger one as well, but this tiny eight inch one is just right for itty bitty block units. On top of the…
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Favorite Notions
Instagram has been buzzing in the past week or so with quilters sharing pictures of their favorite notions. I thought that would be a great topic for a blog post, but I have so many favorites, I think I have to divide them up into several posts! Some of my absolute essentials are in the…
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State Fair
I've been working on a couple of springy table runners this past week. I shared Tootsie Pops with you, which is super cute, but I wanted another runner that showed off more of that beautiful Lilac Hill fabric I had been hoarding. An old Schnibbles pattern called State Fair came to mind, and I decided…
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