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February 17, 2025
Brown Bag Mystery Quilt from Becca's Crazy Projects

I don't know what it is about these mystery quilts that I love so much. That doesn't matter. I popped over to The Crabby Quilter, one of my local quilt shops, and picked up a kit and the Creative Grids Square on Square Trim Tool (3in or 6in).
I admit I chose it because of those cute, little kitties! I'm excited to get started on this project. Every year this is an adventure that takes me outside my comfort zone. I'm here for it!

Check out my previous BBMQ's.
    Piece of Cake (2024)
    Timeshare (2023 ...

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Lap quilts from Happy Cottage Quilter

 Making lap quilts for the senior residents is my goal again this year. I enjoy making these simple lap quilts. They don't take a lot of thinking, which is sometimes a good thing. Kind of therapeutic. So this is the second top I've made.


I hope to make one a month. Last Christmas I delivered 10 lap quilts, so I need to step it up and make at least 12 altogether.

                                        Sew and Tell

                                       NTT
                                      Finished or not Friday
                                      Design wall Monday

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Strawberry sewing from Just Sew Sue

 

I received a very welcome parcel from Moda last week. My request for Strawberry by Kimberley Kight was originally despatched on 31 October, but it never arrived. Moda were kind enough to despath a second box containing two layer cakes, extra wide backing and some specked for binding. This is for a pattern that will be in Make Modern this summer and Strawberry should be despatched to stores in May.

I am not a lover of green, so I have swapped out the two green squares for some pink fabric from the first line of Strawberry and I'm ready ...

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More no brainer sewing.......... from Exuberant Color


I had so much making these strip sets Saturday night that I chose some more pairs and kept sewing.  There was one more under the needle when I took this photo so 9 strip sets last night and 14 sets on Saturday night.






I decided I'm going to cut them into 5" sections so I made some half sets for more variety, and also to use some shorter pieces in the boxes of strips.








Here are the next 13 paired sets ready to sew tonight.

I got my large Crooked Cobblestone top 3/4 basted yesterday.  I should be ...

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Design Wall Monday - February 17, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

 Good Morning Quilters!

I hope you had a great Valentines Day with your loved ones.  Here are some quilts that are out at our house this February.

Two over the railings of the stairs near the front door::


A doll quilt of toile fabric that matches the bigger quilt above:

Do you notice that I fussy cut the toile fabric so there are two of each bird?  I love birds and am enjoying the variety that are at the bird feeder outside my kitchen window.  Life is full of small pleasures.

I am nearing the corners of the Cousin’s ...

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It’s Done from Quilts....etc.

I worked off and on all day on The Rose Garden – If I want to I can still add a red border to it and have enough left for the red binding but I have grown tired of working on it right now LOL so it is folded up now and put away to […]

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Flower Basket Sampler Sew Along - Week Three!! from Bee In My Bonnet



FLOWER BASKET BLOCKS

 ONE - TWO - THREE - FOUR - FIVE

SIX - SEVEN - EIGHT - NINE 



Welcome Quilty friends!!

Today is the day for the 
"WEEK THREE" 
 in our 
FlOWER BASKET SAMPLER
 SEW ALONG


We are making the 
FLOWER BASKET SAMPLER Quilt 
which finishes at
 87" x 87"
It consists of 12 pieced pinwheel blocks
and a pieced border which surrounds
the pieced basket blocks with
 appliquéd trim and flowers on each!
(Basically this is mainly 
a pieced quilt with some applique)



To make the appliquéd flowers, 
leaves and basket trim
 we are using my 
Sew Simple Shapes called of course...
Flower Basket Sampler ...

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies from Lovin' Life At The End Of The Dirt Road

 I was weeding through some recipes I had pinned and pulled this one to make on Friday. DH had gone to check on our cows, I had finished oiling the interior of the chicken coop with Linseed oil, and my cookie stash had been depleted. These sounded promising and I had all the called for ingredients on hand. As I took the last batch out of the oven, someone knocked on the door. We live very

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Come See Me at QuiltCon 2025 from Christa Quilts

It’s QuiltCon time and this is the one show I’ve been to every single year since it launched in 2013. I’m headed to Phoenix, AZ this time around to attend some amazing lectures, volunteer my time on the show floor, and do a little fabric and book promotion. If you are planning to attend, please come and see me during one of these times shown below. I’d love to see you there!!

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What I’m Working On: February 17, 2025 from Jo's Country Junction

I got a medium amount of sewing time in this week. It was a week where I had to sneak in as much as I could. I really didn’t have a large period of time to work on anything…and cross stitch kind of took over when I did. I like to tell you all what …

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Runner Up Blog Hop featuring Verdant from Curlicue Creations

Hello!  Welcome to my day on the Island Batik Ambassador Runner Up blog hop.  This is my project, Verdant.

Disclaimer:  The products used to make this project were given to me by Island Batik and Industry Partners.

This month, the Island Batik Ambassadors were challenged to create a runner using the new fabric collection we received in our January boxes and the Deb Tucker Studio 180 Tool we received.  It could be either a bed runner or a table runner.  I chose to make a table runner.

The fabric collection I received is Meadow Hues.  It's a signature collection ...

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Not A Stitching Day! from Quilting My Way

As much as I wanted to stitch today, it didn't happen. It was a day were Patrick wanted to go to the movies and I was ready to go! 

We saw the new Caption America and I really liked it. I like the new Caption America, he's perfect for the part. I'm thinking more will be coming. We sat for a few minutes after the show to see if there was a trailer on what's coming but after a couple minutes, I was tired of waiting, and we left. So, I have no idea if there ...

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The 2025 SAHRR: Border 4 from Life In Pieces

I noted in my Stitching Stuff post that not much got done this week.  That included any progress on the 2025 SAHRR,



I was able to finish off all the Friendship Star blocks from border 3 and worked out a plan for week 4.  



The green border strips are cut, but didn't get attached.  I finished 2 blocks for border 4, but that's it. The border will be a mix of blue and green blocks.  I'm hoping to catch up this week, finish border 4 while working on border 5.  We'll see how that works. 

Linking ...

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Week 7 of 2025 from Thread Head

This week I finished a set of tea towels - 

The pattern is Cinnamon Toast Towels from the Yarn Barn of Kansas, some with a border designed by someone on Ravelry, and one with a border I designed.
They are woven with 2/16 cotton and 2/8 cotton from Maurice Brassard in Quebec. The warp is white, but the weft is various colours. The weave structure is crackle - something new to me (it is supposed to look like crackle glaze on pottery). They were really nice to weave, and it was fun to play with different colours. More information can ...

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February 8: Isaiah 41:10, Fun Fiber Projects, Literary Life and Finding Joy from Faith, Trust and Breast Cancer

Hello There, 

Thank you all for visiting!  Back in January I mentioned about some issues with photos in Blogger.  I found an easier, new-to-me method to insert them from my phone. 

I simply open the draft of my blog post on my phone and, following the normal procedure, insert the edited picture in the section I want.  To find the photo tool on my phone, I have to swipe left.  I am careful to ensure the blog post I'm working on is closed on my computer.  Likewise when I'm working on m computer:  I make sure the post ...

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Anna Karena 35, 36 from Virtual Quilter

Old project file, add new colours …. But no quilting in the first new design.
 

The second new design in the project has quilting motifs added.

Amazing what can be done early in the morning with a coffee and Electric Quilt.

Compared to the old colours these look like a newly washed quilt!

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Still Singin' the Blues ~ Sew & Tell - 2/17/2025 from Melva Loves Scraps


 I spent the week finishing playing the "Blues".


I finished this "Baby Blues" with some large stippling, with the help of my acrylic template.  The backing is the same batik as the border, a remnant of some quilt that I made last year.  

It is interesting as I dig through the bin... as a sort of archeological dig of my quilt making career.  LOL... Bits from dresses I made for our daughters when they were much younger, roman shades that were for our youngest daughter's room, fabrics that reminded me of the western style shirts my Mom used to ...

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February 16, 2025
Spoiler Alert: The Substance from Nina Paley

Outside is an icy hellscape so I’m staying in watching Oscar-nominated movies. Many of this years’s crop are crap, like Emeilia Pérez. But some are good, and The Substance is quite interesting to me specifically, so I’m writing about it.

If I had known The Substance was a horror movie (a genre I detest), I wouldn’t have watched it. So I’m glad I didn’t.

The plot follows Lizzie Sparkle (Demi Moore), an aging movie star losing her looks. A handsome young doctor slips a promotional USB drive about “The Substance” into her coat pocket ...

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Blocks for both panels with SAHRR from Quilting & Learning

Hi and welcome. I've been spending as much time as possible in my studio. There's still just enough space to work in and that's what matters! I've been enjoying piecing my blocks. Now that I've stopped playing with 8 HSTs (half square triangles) in one block, it's all good

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In a Bind from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It's a second Valentine's Day here. Mike and I have an evening out tonight to celebrate Friday's Valentine's Day. There's a special three-course meal at one of our favorite restaurants in downtown Portland. We wanted to avoid the Friday night holiday crowd, and so we waited until tonight for our celebratory dinner. I'm glad because I doubt we could have gotten out of our driveway on Friday. Tonight, it'll be smooth sailing...but no sailing...and no slipping, just because it's smooth. Sailing and slipping are to be ...

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