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Two January stockings for the Season of Grace BOM. I have one more to finish. I finished the January mystery basket block from Megan’s guild.I’m really happy with it.It’s 18 1/2 inches square – the biggest basket I’ve ever made! My January string blocks. This is 16 1/2 inches square. I’m looking forward to the…
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Basket Back Basting I finished appliquing the basket handle. I found the back basting technique made it really easy – no pins, and the fabric easily turns right on the marked placement line. I will be using this method again – soon! Inventory Analysis – You could call it “FABRIC CAMP” Pat Sloan will be…
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My first of 3 stockings for the Season of Grace BOM this month. I’m machine blanket stitching around the ‘dots’ and do this only when little ones aren’t sleeping. And when I’m AWAKE. I received my Christmas winnings from Lizzie B this week! I participated by leaving comments during their 12 Days of Christmas. They…
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I’ve had this book for several years. I hunted it down to work on this quilt – A Work in Progress picture of the anniversary quilt for my parents. My sister and I each made blocks with sashing and quilted them. I joined them together using the lap quilting method. Now I’m using it to…
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I’ve started to work on my first block for the Basket mystery quilt. I don’t know what colour I want the handle to be. . . the orange is my preference. This light blue colour is the one suggested to be used by the pattern picture – repeating the middle of the basket. My husband…
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It’s not really starting a new project if. . . I play with background and border fabrics. . . and pull a few colourful fabrics out to play with too. Right? Doodling new designs does count for something too.Like a bonus question on a test. I’m IN for the basket mystery BOM through Megan’s guild.…
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I’ve been working on my final stockings for the Season of Grace BOM with Pat Sloan and Emilie Richards. (The final one is on the ironing board). The dots are fussy cut onto each stocking. I’ll put them together next week.I’ve also been pulling strips for this week’s string block. Still need to sew them…
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Last night I matched up my Lady of the Lake blocks into sets of four. I’m joining them to make a secondary pattern of light and dark squares. Already in this picture I see a piecing mistake (top right one). Will I fix it? This has been on the back burner for a long time.…
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My design wall is waiting for me this morning. I finished my nephew’s Birthday placemat that was up last week. I’m finding string projects easy distractions:) I have last week’s string block completed. On the desk is my Birthday panel from last week. It’s half quilted. That’s a top priority so it’s taking up prime…
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First Friday Finish is this Makeup Bag for my daughter. She is in a skating competition this weekend where makeup is part of the costume:) I was excited the zipper works and I made another STRIP project.Her response – “It’s great! It will hold A LOT of makeup.” I loosely followed the tutorial on Moda…
