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Happy New Year everyone! I know I've been MIA for a couple weeks but I'm still here. Luckily Kathy C. came to the rescue with a stack of 5 freshly assembled and quilted star quilts from this summer's drive.


I traveled and had great visits with family in New Mexico and Mississippi over Christmas but then was laid low by some kind of mega-cold. I had planned to spend the days off work between Christmas and New Year sewing, instead I've been sleeping fitfully and coughing my head off :(


I finally started to improve a few ...

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It's time to wrap up this year's Jan-Feb String Block Drive!  Getting done in mid-November is good time for me. It usually takes basically the entire year to get the strings all quilted!


As always, I have MANY people to thank who donated blocks, tops, backing fabrics, rolls of binding, and their time. The first two quilts in this post, above and below, were pieced and quilted from Mina's blocks by Tammy S.


I love this block drive because it's such a quintessential "quilt" design. When most non-quilters imagine a quilt they think of a scrappy ...

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Happy Halloween! This week I have three quilts to show you that were sent to my by Erin. You may remember her first two quilts from this post.


Erin sent in 5 scrappy tops along with backings and bindings and I've just finished quilting them all. Thank you Erin! 


These will be going along with a big delivery for Covered in Love up to the hospital this week.


I hope your Halloween was fun and you had enough candy to go around!


If you want to make a few blocks for the Sept/Oct block drive you still can ...

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