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Design Wall Cleared for Action
I got the rows of Message in a Bottle all connected and got it off the design wall. I will show you a picture of that once I get the borders on. When you take a project down from your design wall, does it drive you crazy that there are a gazillion little threads…
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Long Road Home Blocks All Done
A free day equals lots of sewing time, and I made the most of it. What you see in the photo above are 90 Long Road Home blocks. Nine stacks of ten blocks each. This quilt is a diagonal set, and I plan to get it on the design wall some time today. I need…
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Sewing, Interrupted
I tried. I really tried. Sewing with a toddler under foot just isn't easy. I brought out the Janome, and trotted my Long Road Home project box up from the studio. My plan was to sew in the kitchen while I watched Eva play. She just wanted to climb up on my lap whenever I…
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Drowning in Strips
I feel as if I am drowning in strips for my pineapple blocks! I did get the lights all cut out and organized into labeled baggies over the weekend. After cutting for hours, I still do not have enough French General reds. I ordered 13 more fat quarters and that is just going to have…
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Red Pineapple
This must be my week to try out new rulers. It all started with Cathy over at Quilting on Main Street. Cathy just finished a gorgeous quilt she calls Rendevous, which is a Pineapple Block quilt. She did hers all in French General reds, with glorious results. Go have a look at her quilt, so…
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Cool Rulers
I took advantage of some free time over the weekend to work on my Blogger Girls BOM blocks for February. The instructions for this block called for a couple of specialty rulers that I am excited about. These rulers were given to me by the inventor, Monique Dillard of Open Gate Quilts, I know that…
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Row Row Row Your Boat
Still working on sewing all those diagonal rows together for Message in a Bottle. I have two sections sewn together, and will get the five rows of the third section together this week. It is coming along! As I look at this quilt top, I am thinking what a great Friendship quilt it would make. …
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Mini Cherry Baskets
This is my little homage to Thelma's Door County Cherry Basket Quilt. I used some of her leftover black and brown triangles, and some of my beautiful red charm squares from Primitive Gatherings. The patterns for the basket blocks came from Miss Rosie's "Picnic" Schnibbles pattern. The blocks are 6 inch finished. My offering is…
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Doing It My Way
You will be seeing this quilt on a couple of blogs today. This is Thelma's (Cupcakes 'n' Daisies) Door County Cherry Baskets quilt. It was a pattern designed by Lisa Bongean of Primitive Gatherings. Ever since Thelma started this quilt I have wanted one too. Primitive Gatherings was offering the quilt as a kit, which…
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Learn What Your Machine Can Do
I learn stuff all the time from other bloggers. The most recent awesome and truly useful tip came from a post by Camille Roskelley of Simplify. This tip has to do with a stitch many of you may have on your sewing machines that can be very effectively used in machine quilting. This is the…
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