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Amish With a Twist 2–progress
Today I’m all caught up with my Amish With A Twist-2 Block of the Month program with the completion of these four, plus the components shown below. I think these will eventually become part…
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Retreating from the World, Quilt-style
Last weekend, along with a ton of other quilters in various locations, countries and states, my small sewing group (named The Good Heart Quilters) had their second annual retreat. First off, a little game:…
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Design Wall Recover, In Progress Quilts
Linking up to Lee’s Freshly Pieced with this post. First up, re-cover my pin wall. (1) How I built my pin wall: 2 sheets of 1/2″ foam core art board taped side by side,…
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Citrus
Citrus, 31-1/2″ square, finished July 2013 This is a simple Schnibbles quilt, with rail fence and sawtooth star blocks, in bright citrusy colors. The back, with my sister’s gift of a tea towel as…
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Latest Schnibbles is Taking Shape
This is the Schnibbles pattern chosen for this month’s Parade of Schnibbles, hosted by Sherri and Sinta, a design called Lincoln. While I love the red, cream and blue and it is appropriate for…
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Finish-A-Long, Quarter 3 Goals
It’s that time again, time to set out some goals for the next quarter. The rules state that they have to be projects that you need to finish, and since I’ve been laid up…
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Owls
Our Four-in-Art theme this round is Owls, under the year-long theme of Nature. When Betty chose it, I went blank. Then she wrote about it, I did a search on Flickr, and ideas starting…
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Wanna Swap?
My little quilt group, The Good Heart Quilters, is having our annual retreat, and has decided to do Debbie’s Polaroid Block Swap. But we wouldn’t mind if a few of you wanted to play.…
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Amish With A Twist Progress
I’ve been working on the Amish With A Twist, Series Two, and I’m happy to say I am all caught up now. Above is Flying Geese. Bowtie was next. Rolling Stone, and I while…
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Finsh-A-Long–Second Quarter Report
First, on July 3rd, I’m guest hosting today over at Leanne’s, of She Can Quilt, where I have written a tutorial for making a faced binding on a quilt (used on Kaleidoscope). This tutorial…
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Block of the Month: Starts and Re-starts
I’ve been working on Amish With a Twist–part II, having sewn up some strip sets before I went under the knife for foot surgery, then cut them apart: While this is how the pattern…
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Village Faire
Village Faire, quilt #117 on my 200 Quilts List A part of the Year of Schnibbles, hosted by Sherri and Sinta. This quilt reminded me of summer days, of green lawns that you can…
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WIP–Bee Blocks (post revised)
UPDATE: I’ve revised this post, because this morning I realized that TODAY is Wednesday, not yesterday (when I’d originally written it: we’re a little foggy on life over here), so today I am linking up with Lee…
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Kaleidoscope
At long last, I have finished Kaleidoscope. Here she is on the fence, all quilted and bound and ready to be hung up in our home. The first picture was merely the top, unquilted,…
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Temporarily Out of Service
This is what I put up on Instagram, in between woozy episodes of a drug-induced haze. Gotta’ love those drugs, however. I did stay up late the night before my surgery putting a binding…
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City Quilter Gallery
I love to visit City Quilter in New York City, for not only do they have amazing fabrics, they also have an attached art quilt gallery. The exhibit when I was there was Deb…
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Geek 8 Competition–Spoonflower Fabrics
The link to look at the fabrics, read about the designers is *here.* Like many of you, I’m a fabric geek–love the texture, the designs, love having a wide range of fabrics to choose…
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First WIP Post of Summer 2013
It’s the first post of summer–the first Works In Progress post, thanks to Lee, of Freshly Pieced. I put together the sections for the Schnibbles block, trimming it up as the pattern recommended (we’re…
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Using the Other Side of Fabrics
First off, after I finally figured out how to use Mr. Random Number Generator, and making sure that comment included a trip, I’m happy to announce that the winner of the Itsy Bitsy Scissors…
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Punching the Creative Buttons
{NOTE: If you are looking for the teensy scissor giveaway, you can find it *here.*} ************************************* If you’ve never traveled to New York City, the question of whether that city is worth all the…
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Pins and Needles, in New York City
I’ve been in New York City for a week, and while there I discovered a new quilting/fabric shop, on the upper East Side, a few blocks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s called…
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FAL Progress: not much
This is one of those I-think-I’ll-beat-myself-up posts. I’m participating in the Finish-A-Long this quarter, after having such a gang-busting last quarter. Really, I was hot hot hot. These were my goals. 1. I glimpsed…
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Christine’s Philadelphia
At the last post, we were in the bakery section of Bottega Louie and I had a big surprise for my sister Christine. It was Christine’s Philadelphia, a quilt celebrating her life and her…
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Hot Mitts, take two
Just a little something I put together. . . . . .for my daughter-in-law Kim, who, when I posted them on Instagram said she liked them and “hint, hint.” I was happy she wanted…
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Spoolin’ Around
This is my latest Schnibbles quilt: Spoolin’ Around. Sherri, Sinta and I assume, Carrie, pick the Schnibbles pattern we are going to use, but then we all go to town putting it together in…
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To Reply, or Not to Reply? Blogging Buzz
I guess the first thing to get out of the way is to ask one of the big questions: No, that’s not it. The big question is: why do you blog? And if you…
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Entering the Grading Galaxy
(She moans. Loudly.) But! I will return, because I excel in Grading Avoidance–a skill not all possess, but my guess is if you are a college English Teacher, you probably do. GA, we call…
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