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Saturday Night I made a mistake sewing my giant churn dash block together.I must have flipped over the foundation piece on the way to the sewing machine.It took me maybe an hour to decide that I couldn’t live with it as a design “opportunity” –I knew I would know it wasn’t what I had planned!…
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Ariane has lots of goodies up for grabs to celebrate 300 posts.Visit before the 24th for a chance.Plus, she has her Sew Modern Bee blocks made into a quilt top already! Sarah Fielke‘s first line of fabric has arrived – one 0f 5 chances here until the 30th. As I was perusing the blogs last…
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Here are three stockings I’ve made this year using the template. Let me know in the comments which one you would like a tutorial for. Voting ends on THURSDAY, Sept. 22.Check back Saturday, Sept. 24 when I post the winning stocking tutorial. Thanks again! With lots of Joy,Sarah Vee
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Proof that I’ve been finishing. One placemat quilted and bound. 3 more quilted and moving to the binding pile. That will happen over the weekend during football games. Each one is quilted differently. This one I went around the large paisleys. The quilting pattern had to take into consideration the pocket on the bottom left…
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I know I wouldn’t enjoy being on a desert isle, but I would enjoy, say, a weekend alone in a king bed hotel suite with room service and a nice, big desk! Don’t forget a fantastic view of, maybe, My Layer Cake of Prayer Flags by April Cornell. There are lots of paisley prints to…
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Here’s a big reward for those of us who can keep on track a little longer! Gudrun has organized another fun hop! The button in my sidebar will take you to her blog too.Where she happens to be having a giveaway to help spread the word about the hop.{thanks to Ariane, for adding the button…
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My design wall this morning is covered with the building blocks for Pat Sloan’s Lucky Charms sew a long. You can see how other people are progressing at the Old Red Barn flickr group. I’m trying to decide if I want to use the pink floral as my 1 inch inner border. That might get…
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I spent time yesterday starting to cut up the fabrics for my Sew Modern Bee month. I really enjoyed it! I love seeing my choices line up together and look like I envisioned. Right now I think I bought too much fabric, but my husband disagrees. Had to write that one down for the record!:)…
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I’ve completed the piecing for Pat Sloan’s Lucky Charms. Next up is deciding on fabrics for the centre applique and the skinny border between the centre and the corners. This pink I’m auditioning here is another fabric from Granny’s stash. If I don’t use it on this project, it’s going to get cut up into…
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This was the 1st place pumpkin at the Massey Fair this year. Our local guild had a great display of quilts. A closeup of a mini quilt. I really like the trees. The quilts are more ‘hung up’ then displayed. Here’s one made with men’s ties. There was much more knitting than quilts out this…
