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Thanks to everyone who commented on my Blog Anniversary post! The winner of the A Needle Pulling Thread Spring 2016 issue is Beth – Congrats Beth! You can purchase a digital copy, print copy or subscribe here:) What’s Next? I’m finally going to quilt this baby quilt. Of course it has churn dashes! The pattern…
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My birthday has come and gone and I still have to share my birthday blocks. For the Birthday Block exchange with my Sloanie friends I decided on a scrappy bento box. I have wanted to make a quilt with this block for over 10 years and decided this was my chance. I asked for the…
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Seven Years! According to my blog posts, I’ve been working on this quilt for almost that long too!!! I started this blog on my birthday 7 years ago – with a mention that I had started cutting fabrics for this quilt! I quilted this top as two twin size pieces this month! Then I sewed…
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I finished this quilt last Friday. Finally! I wanted a quick one and saw this in my pile. You can see how it came to be in this post (from 2011!) I worked through every obstacle: Not a big enough piece of batting around? Cut some leftover pieces to size and sew them together. For…
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I’m soooo close! This is the second large panel of my Halloween 1904 quilt (designed by Blackbird Designs) that I’ve almost finished quilting this month! As I finished quilting the first half of the quilt, I stopped seeing the quilt as a group of blocks and started seeing it as *one* block. This changed my…
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This year several of the quilters I chat with regularly from Pat Sloan‘s old forum decided to exchange quilt blocks. We decided on doing a birthday block exchange so that each quilter could pick what block she wanted – down to size, theme, fabrics, pattern – and receive them in the month of her birthday.…
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It’s a long weekend here – Family Day today. I’ve already spent some time quilting this weekend and have the next Secret Garden Block to show for it! This is one of the many projects that Pat Sloan has going on this year. Block 1 and 2 of the Secret Garden designed by Pat Sloan…
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It’s the beginning of the year of the Fire Monkey according to the Chinese lunar calendar. I made this tutorial for a *Lucky Monkey Tail Mug Rug* and shared it over at QUILTsocial. It’s a quick project and I even used made selvage fabric for the back! Lucky Monkey Tail Mug Rug at QUILTsocial How…
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I have been supply teaching more and, in between preparing projects and posts for other places, I’ve been quilting my Halloween 1904 quilt by Blackbird Designs. I finished quilting two of the blocks on the bottom panel of my quilt including my first pumpkin block! I quilted around the pumpkin, star and leaves with a…
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Thriving is definitely happening over here! I wish I could say it feels good all of the time, but I’m still learning to stop, look, and listen { like in fire drills at school:) } Stop I have a hard time stopping to celebrate success. A finished quilt is definitely up there as a highlight…
