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Deze zijn een heel stuk kleiner dan de grote blokken. De grote blokken bestaan uit 36 kleine blokjes, de randblokken uit slechts 4. Dat scheelt. 

After finishing my last quilt, I made a plan to make a bunting with the name of my second grand daughter on it. Her father made mention (not so subtly) that I made one right away for the first grand daughter but have not made one for the second who is now six months old. (I am fairly certain the baby hasn’t yet noticed this injustice but still.) Well, it still hasn’t happened.

I had ordered some fall fabrics from Clothworks and they arrived last week. One of the bolts has a panel for making placemats and I ...

 Weihnachten kommt näher und näher (Lebkuchen und Marzipan gibt es auch schon - hab ich aber noch nicht gekauft) und mein Bäumchenquilt wird immer größer. Die ersten Bäumchen ergeben schon einen Mini-Wald. Ein solches kreuz-und quer-Layout ist eigentlich auch nicht schlecht...

Christmas is coming closer (we even have the gingerbread und marzipan in the shops here in Germany) and my tree quilt is growing. Die first tress make a cute little forest. A wonky layout is not tto bad...

I started the tree quilt together with other quilters in an informal quilt along with Roswitha and Marianne. And then Sandra a ...

Quilting on Alaska is coming along so much faster on the second half of the quilt then it did in the beginning and I think that was because I was planning and plotting the quilting design as I was going – now that the first half is done it is now repeating the design to […]

It is warming up a little more each day so I think my ...

Last weekend was the Sewing Shindig virtual retreat and I am exhausted. I did however finish three items with one left to bind, so I am pleased with my achievements over the weekend. I also did about half of the FURY block from the Tattoo quilt from HappySewLucky.

The first class was Foundation piecing with Kelly of Jeliquilts. We had one of the patterns in advance so I may have used it a a leader and ender project over the last two weeks. However I also cut out the pieces for a log cabin pattern which I pieced traditionally. 

For ...

And eleven to go - ;)) I finished the first potholder -The rest are trimmed and ready to be bound - And the binding strips have all been cut -  My machine doesn't like the upholstery fabric in these -And it's not my best work - But I think they will serve the purpose - They're big and thick - LOL - ;)) Hopefully I'll be able to finish the rest of them soon - I still need to "un-sew" some

Good Morning Quilters!  Quilting activity:  I am working on a doll quilt that I am trying to put names in the center of signature blocks.  It is not going well so far.  I am experimenting with waste cloth cross stitch, desolvable cross stitch foundation, and just regular embroidery of a name.  I am debating tearing out what I’ve done so far and starting over.  The usual disappointment when

I had a busy week and didn’t get a lot of stuff done.  Kayla was here for two overnights.  We celebrated Carver’s birthday one night.  I visited a new baby and did errands one day.  I submitted a project for publication.  I got another one sent in and I did a BIG packaging up of charity quilt tops to be sent out.

So…my Hawk’s Nest quilt didn’t get any further.

I did however pull out my Quilted Twins mystery.

Do you remember what that looks like?

I had about three other things I should have ...

Yes, our renovation is finally finished and I’m celebrating with a new tour of my quilting studio! It has been a very long, very difficult six months. I am very happy with our new space and even more happy to be getting back to quilting.

If you’d like to see just how much things have changed in the past six months, you can see the “before” version of this studio tour too. This was shared in January 2020, one month before the basement flooded:

A lot has changed! We finally have a beautiful, bright basement that is a ...

 Today we begin the

Hello Fall Blog Hop!

We are celebrating the fall season!

 The first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere is September 22nd.

That seems like the perfect reason to celebrate autumn with a blog hop.

So, I invited my blogging friends to
stitch something up with fall in mind. 

A quick fall pillow with Deco Foil for Therm-O-Web

I'm excited to introduce today's line-up of bloggers.

Monday, September 21st

Just Let Me Quilt

Websterquilt
VroomansQuilts
Karen's Korner
Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
QuiltFabrication.com
Karrin’s Crazy World
Seams To Be Sew
The Joyful Quilter ...

This is 90” wide fabric that I purchased to make the youngest granddaughter a quilt for her bed.  I barely have time to piece lately, so whole-cloth is the way to go when I need something done.  The fabric arrived just as I was about to finish the last of the 3 customer quilts I did and I looked forward to do something for myself without a deadline or an eager customer waiting for me to finish.

Well, as the saying goes, life happens while you are making other plans and just as I had this fabric loaded, I got ...

 This morning I was surprised that both of us were up by 7 am. It was one of those morning where I was about to work on my stuff....and then Sophie took over my chair. I let her, and played some games. 

Then I pulled out my cross stitching. It was hard getting started.....no clue why. Almost as if I wanted to do something but didn't have a clue what. So, I sat, got up, sat again, got up...and that went on for a good couple hours. 

When I finally got my rear in gear and ...

You all know I love to see what you create using the fabrics I’ve designed for Benartex. Well every now and then a quilt comes along that really makes my heart sing! So today I wanted to share more about this fabulous quilt called Hypnotica by my talented friend Nancy Messuri who is a relatively new quilt pattern designer.Click here to get Nancy’s Hypnotica Quilt Pattern PDF

I’ve invited Nancy to come on the blog to tell you more about this fabulous quilt in her own words…..

From Nancy Messuri:

I am honored Christa gave me ...

The next block in our Summer Moon journey is what Carrie calls the Southern Star. This is a beautiful star block, and was very easy to construct. It's 90% half-square triangles, and the other 10% are just squares!

It's fun to play with the placement and decide if you want total scrappy happiness, or if you want it a bit more controlled . . . 

I decided I liked that last arrangement the best, so then it was time to sew up all three!

The next block will be the Checkerboard, and I will have some construction tips!

Till next time,

I know its Sunday, but I  had a quilting job to do for a friend. I really didn't do much sewing, just finished quilting Cowboy quilt #3 and sewed the binding by machine.