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 Time for a post dedicated to this quilt-along as we have just completed block #15 this week

Linking to Put your foot down, Off the wall Friday, Patchwork and Quilt, Design Wall Monday, Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle and Thread Thursday

Céline

 The Guardians 

a painting, just a quick painting to see colors dance with each other on paper, moving, spreading, blending and creating lines. 

I might be superfluous in the process

I lift the paper, let water guide the lines as it will, amazed at the life in a painting. I think of how life moves and blends and resists too, how the colors so pretty on their own, look when next to other colors and that each living thing has it's own colors, and how each living thing changes a bit when it's near another.

will they blend ...

There's a bit of a Bunny thing going on in these here parts. Elizabeth Hartman Bunnies to be precise. Maybe it's true about how bunnies multiply, even if they are not real bunnies? The pattern has a few different sized creatures.

I am up and off early this morning to drive our workshop presenter to the Austin airport. She needs to be there by 10am and I am hoping to hit the quilt shop in Shiner on my way back. I should have plenty of time to get there. 

We had a great two-day workshop. Here are some pictures on the “in progress” stuff:

This is the workshop I made the 4” blocks for.

The class is called “Love Your Layout”, and the premise is coming up with a pleasing setting for blocks you have made. Of course, they can really ...

Three sides on Hunters Star is now done  2 or 3 more times stitching with the evening news and it will be done – maybe if things dry out I will be able to take a photo outside Monday or Tuesday. The fabric is picked out for my yellow Mercantile block – I hope to […]

We Kramers are a pretty open family. My husband and I were always way upfront with the kids. They knew about sex and menstruation long before most kids ever knew. I always wanted to be upfront and open about it so when the time came for them to think about sex, they wouldn’t be afraid …

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 Courage, dear heart.   — C. S. Lewis.

This was the saying that kept going through my mind as I pieced this block. Fiddly, and time-consuming; and my mind went to enough different places while I worked on it that I made several mistakes in the cutting of the fabrics. 

No coup here, but this was a good start on the first day of piecing this block.

I’m now considering cutting out the remaining pieces of the entire quilt so I can just sew, trim and press. A long weekend should fill the bill, so long as I’m not interrupted.

This morning, I didn't sleep well. So, I was up and ready to go. I got a few things done before heading to moms. It's quilting Friday. Mom's Friday group is an applique group. Normally I don't like taking a lot over and having to bring it back so I decided I would work on one of mom's Block of the Month quilts. 

Mom ordered this in 2018. She falls in love with some of Debbie M's quilt designs and orders the block of the month. She ordered her most recent one. So, we ...

A smaller quilt finish for today. Over the years I have collected smaller pieces of flannel fabric, but have not often sewn with them. When I was doing a tidy up I realised that pile of flannel fabrics had grown and needed to be used. We need a couple of warm quilts to have as extras in the caravan, so it was time to use those fabrics.

I didn’t want to cut the snowflake fabric into small pieces, so I kept them as 6 inch squares.

Then I framed each block with a selection of the blues that I ...

Last night, it was maybe 9 or 9:30 p.m. In the distance, we heard thunder. It wasn’t loud. It didn’t sound angry. Vince said “We’d better get the dogs out before it starts raining again.” I took Oscar out. Then Vince took Rita out and I got Cooper’s harness and was on my way out...

Interesting but a bit tangled up!

Almost the same design, with some extra applique in the border, and the colours have been stirred a bit!

I was initially pretty concentrated on one piece this week. Then I got it done and floundering happened. HA!! It’s typical of me. I can concentrate on something for a bit, then once it’s done, I’m all over the place. The piece I worked on with the goal of finishing was Summer Sweets Pinkeep. It …

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I was in a hurry to grab a book and took the first audiobook that looked like something I wouldn’t mind. It was listed as a thriller and I was ready for something that wasn’t historical fiction. I ended up grabbing this book, You Can Trust Me by Wendy Heard. The book started by catching …

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 I have not been able to do any sewing or much of anything since the middle of March when I finished Illegitium. Although it isn't very big, apparently it is enough to completely wreck my right arm. I am right handed, do practically everything right handed, but my arm is so painful from shoulder to fingertips that all I do right now is read. I went to my primary care doctor who thinks it is a rotator cuff issue but since I really cannot tolerate surgery again, my only recourse is rest and at some point in the future ...

Well, this can be either the best decision in my business or the worst decision. You may be wondering what I have decided.

I have had the Quilter’s Groove TRIBE membership since June of 2021, and I absolutely love it and the members. Currently, the price is $24.97/month. There is a low-price offer for the Design Decision Dilemma at $9/ month.

For the past 3 months, I have been thinking of making a huge change and have made my final decision. I will combine the two memberships AND reduce the ...