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I finally got all of these blocks and pieces put together. Then I rotated it when I put it back up on the design wall and really like it this way! I needed to clear off my design wall to start this – A Christmas quilt! This block is the middle block. It’s the basket…
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Fall has the most wonderfully inspiring colour palettes! I realized as I was making this photo of my baked squash ‘pretty’ that the colours inside the squash are very similar to those outside on the trees. The variety of green really starts to show when the trees around them change to their autumnal hues. The…
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I now understand why people take so many projects with them when they go on retreat! These three projects I tackled in the afternoon of my day off. The morning I spent making the backing for my son’s Christmas quilt. I need a little more batting and then I can start quilting it. I fused…
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3 Basket Quilt Patterns + Fall Fabrics + Prize Incentive from Pat Sloan = Hybrid Happiness! Pat Sloan is hosting a sew along using her Baby Baskets pattern or one from her Novelties book. You can find out more about it here. I’m planning to use her baskets and make 6 of them –…
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This is my dreamboard. I follow Jamie Ridler and she does one of these each month. Here’s a link to Jamie’s dreamboard this month. I do it occasionally, although I am more likely to do it at this time of year when I love all the inspiration of the autumn colours. I won’t interpret it…
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Here’s to celebrating the harvest! A small {15 x17 inches} wallhanging from LAST fall that I hung up by pinning some leftover ribbon to the top. Here’s to preparing for the treats yet to come! Another project from last year that I just needed to finish some blanket stitching on. Here’s to finishing small projects…
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The quilt is growing! Thank you for your suggestions for what to do for the borders. Turned out many of you liked this brown print. After I added the green border I laid it out and liked how it looked – now that there was some more ‘green connection’. The PLAN for this quilt for…
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Even though there isn’t technically Football games on Tuesday night, we watched one of the channels where you can watch all the highlight plays of the games from the past weekend. I finished sewing down the last part of the hanging sleeve last night. This wasn’t supposed to end up as a wallhanging! These are…
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It’s that time of year when, in addition to all the fall cleaning, baking, new activities and homework, I decide to FOCUS on some UFOs! I have 3 that I want to have a lot of progress on before next year. The one above is one of them. It’s the mystery quilt my sister’s guild…
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My design on the wall has been staring at me for just over a week. I started out making a block to submit to Quiltmaker for another volume of 100 Blocks. Not gonna happen next time around! I will be in the issue coming out really soon though:) This was my original plan. Well, there…
