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March Bee Chicken Blocks
My International Bee, ‘Bee Inspired‘, changed our format this year to one where we are all doing something a bit different each month. I chose to ask everyone to make blocks that I will make in to a Charity quilt to be donated. The blocks I chose to have everyone make are chickens, made from …
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Summer Sampler 2018 Finish
The Summer Sampler is a yearly quilt-a-long hosted by Lee Heinrich of Freshly Pieced. I wrote about starting mine last summer in this post and have had the finished quilt top on my to-finish list for a few months now. After I knocked out all the Hawaiian quilts I felt like it was time to …
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Q1’19 Quilt Retreat
My gang started doing these retreats a year ago. We found a great Airbnb in the East Mountains of Albuquerque and, after 3 retreats last year, have a retreat booked and planned for every quarter of 2019. Albuquerque doesn’t get a ton of snow, but we are a mile high in altitude and typically get …
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Hawaiian Wall Hanging
I recently posted my Hawaiian Sampler Quilt which was a great finish, but it is not the first Hawaiian quilt I have done. I completed this wall hanging top some time ago – couldn’t tell you when – and pulled it out to quilt after I finished the sampler. I figured I was good and …
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Q1’19 FAL Goals
2019?? Really? Seems crazy. I finished 3 of my 5 projects from last quarter, so I have a bunch of new things in the works for Q1’19. 1. Quilt the Summer Sampler: I finished the quilt top at my October quilt retreat, but I was really bugged by a large grouping of orange in the …
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Hawaiian Sampler Finish
I am so happy this quilt is finally finished! I’m not sure I can even pinpoint when I started it. I do have a list of events that I remember happening that led to it getting made: I saw a Hawaiian sampler quilt that was the inspiration in a quilt store in West Des …
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