Year: 2018
Sewing Machine Bag
I had a great time at my first quilt retreat in early March, but dragging around all the gear was not the most fun. I have few events coming up – guild sew days and a few classes – so I decided buying an inexpensive lightweight machine would be a good thing to do. After …
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A Busy Sewing Weekend
I had some time to myself this past weekend so I spent it getting caught up on a few projects. First up, the Bee Blocks for my group. We had 2 Bee Queens in March in order to avoid doing blocks during busier months later in the year. I got one Queen’s blocks completed and …
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Q2’18 FAL – Goal Setting
Here we are in Q2 already. I have a bunch of projects in the works and I’m hoping to start some new things too: Dog Gone Cute Bee Quilt – these are the blocks from my Bee group last year. They are so cute! During Q1’18 I added 2 more blocks to fill it …
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Q1’18 FAL Wrap Up
I’m both really happy with my Q1’18 finishes, and kind of disappointed. I finished a few really great quilts that I am really proud of, but I also didn’t get to sew (or blog!) as much as I wanted to this quarter. I had some changes going on at work that kept me away from …
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Modern Plus Sign Quilts Blog Hop – Signature Plus
When Paige Alexander (Quilted Blooms) and Cheryl Brickey (Meadow Mist Designs) asked me to be part of the blog hop for their new book, Modern Plus Sign Quilts, I was absolutely overjoyed. I’ve never done something like this before and was so honored they asked. I’ve followed both of them for some time and really …
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Hazel the Hedgehog
I just love these critter quilts. I did Dwight the Dear last year, and also bought the patterns for Bjorn the Bear and the Fancy Forest. The Fancy Forest pattern package has Hazel the Hedgehog in it, and I couldn’t resist making a bunch of Hazel blocks. Man there are a bunch of little pieces …
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