Well here it is July, and so we are halfway through the year. I find this both surprising and overdue – I can’t believe it’s mid-year already, but it also has been a pretty long year so far. I had lots of good change – I got to make a move in my job that …
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End of Q2’18! Already. I think I made some good progress. 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 out and decided and started on a layout and sashing plan. I’m hoping …
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When I completed my Splendid Sampler late 2016/early 2017, one of the goals was to use up a bunch of my red and blue fabric stash. Surprisingly, even though that quilt was huge, I didn’t use up as much fabric as I hoped. I did use up a bunch more piecing the backing of that …
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Recently my husband’s cousin had a baby, so I had a great excuse to make a quilt. I found a fat quarter bundle of Dr. Seuss fabric that I thought would be fun to work with and set about drawing up a pattern. The bundle included a bunch of panels, so I drew up …
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Angela Walters recently hosted a ‘Quilting a-long’ – not a Quilt a-long, a Quilting a-long, because this was all about the machine quilting. She published a simple quilt pattern for the top and posted weekly YouTube videos that taught new techniques. I got going late with the challenge because I didn’t want to have the …
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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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