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August 13, 2025
Brown Bag Mystery Quilt from Becca's Crazy Projects

I finally loaded this great quilt onto the frame. 
While it was quilting, I made the binding. 
I used Overlapping Crop Circles for the quilting design. Look at that lounging kitty!
It's trimmed and ready for the binding.

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June 2, 2025
Charity Quilting from Becca's Crazy Projects

Pretty pink, pieced by me.
Rosy, pieced by Kathryn. Both trimmed and ready for the next Annapolis Quilts for Kids.

If you want to contribute but don't have the time or skills, you can support the national Quilts for Kids by going directly to their website and clicking DONATEI don't earn anything from this link. 

If you want to support me indirectly, I do include Amazon affiliate links to products I use on my other blog posts. If you purchase the items I recommend, or anything else, after using my links to reach Amazon I receive a ...

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May 30, 2025
Brown Bag Mystery Quilt from Becca's Crazy Projects

I finished the center of my BBMQ.
And even managed to add a border. Now I need to go shopping for some backing fabric. 

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May 28, 2025
Charity Quilting from Becca's Crazy Projects

This great scrappy quilt was pieced by another member of Annapolis Quilts for Kids. 
Delightful puppies, pieced by another member of Annapolis Quilts for Kids. Both trimmed and ready for the next Annapolis Quilts for Kids.

If you want to contribute but don't have the time or skills, you can support the national Quilts for Kids by going directly to their website and clicking DONATEI don't earn anything from this link. 

If you want to support me indirectly, I do include Amazon affiliate links to products I use on my other blog posts. If you purchase the ...

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May 23, 2025
Charity Quilting from Becca's Crazy Projects

I pieced this fun scrappy quilt using various different 6.5" squares, 2.5" by 4.5" bricks, and 4.5" by 4.5" four-patches. 
Kathryn pieced this bright and fun quilt. Both trimmed and ready for the next Annapolis Quilts for Kids.

If you want to contribute but don't have the time or skills, you can support the national Quilts for Kids by going directly to their website and clicking DONATEI don't earn anything from this link. 

If you want to support me indirectly, I do include Amazon affiliate links to products I use on my ...

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May 21, 2025
Brown Bag Mystery Quilt from Becca's Crazy Projects

I stacked up my block units.
And I sewed a bunch of blocks.
Then, I put the blocks and the sashing strips on the design wall. I'm sure I'll get them sewn together soon. I'm still working out the borders for this one. This one was really fun. 

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May 7, 2025
Brown Bag Mystery Quilt from Becca's Crazy Projects

I realized I hadn't been sharing my BBMQ clues. Let's just work through them since the big reveal is coming up on Saturday. I made some 4-patches
I made some great square-in-square units.  
And these units with contrast corners. I'm excited to see what comes next and how all these units will fit together. 

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

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February 26, 2024
More Baby Quilts from Modern Sunbonnet Sue

I need to stop & write more frequently. I begin and end a project and need to document it but, I don’t take the time. Just last week I began another baby quilt for my best friend’s first grandchild. And I’m thinking about what to make for a niece that’s expecting later this year. So, […]

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March 25, 2022
Charity Quilting from Becca's Crazy Projects

After a slow start to my week (I was doing things not fun, nor crafty) I finally picked up some speed. 
First, I pieced a little charity quilt using some 5" squares I had leftover from other projects. 
Laying them out was likely the longest part of making this quilt. I didn't have that many sets of five to make the pluses. In the end I think it worked out fine. I may need to see how many more charm squares I have and make another. 
This little cutie was mad using even more leftovers. This time, the 2 ...

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December 22, 2021
Catching Up With the Last AHIQ Prompt of the Year from Quilty Folk

 *Remember! The Christmas Giveaway is still open through December 25th!* All year long I've felt like I'm back in junior high, always the last one to finish up the 5K run. Here I am though, finally running across the finish line! The last AHIQ prompt had to do with symmetry or asymmetry, whichever felt least comfortable to us.

The new baby quilt
So I've been thinking and thinking, wondering, 'Am I actually uncomfortable with either?' And yes, while symmetry comes very natural to me, attempting an asymmetrical design usually comes about as a last resort. Sometimes it ...

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June 28, 2020
Mermaids on Wings from Sew Preeti Quilts

It started with this fabric - cute and sweet. It is a complete escape from reality. Just perfect.

Cuteness

The concept was to frame the cute fabric and then alternate the resulting block with four-patch blocks. The four patch blocks were made from Lily and Loom charm squares.


Depressed :-(

I loved the mermaids and I loved the deep/rich 4-patch blocks but together they did not seem to work. It seemed dull and sad.

Something had to change.
I chose the colors from the mermaid fabric, cut up some 5" squares and put them up on the design wall.

Mock-up

Much ...

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February 24, 2020
Vintage Four-Patch from Becca's Crazy Projects

This is what my cutting table looks like most of the time. I move on to the next project and leave a pile of leftovers to put away later. This slows down some of my creativity, but not enough to keep me from doing it again. I had a bunch of strips and squares leftover from my Star Storm Quilt. I decided to trim down some of those leftovers to make some simple four-patch in four-patch blocks.
First, I made a bunch of smaller (4.5" by 4.5") 4-patch units.
Then I joined some to make bigger blocks (8 ...

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October 3, 2016
…But Wait, There’s More! from Quilting, Piece by Piece

dsc04696-1So, you went to the Guild meeting and picked up your Single Irish Chain kit, and looked at my blog post and said to yourself, “Surely, she doesn’t expect me to cut up everything into little squares and do all that tedious piecing.”

You’re right, I don’t expect you to do all that “tedious piecing.” (And, just to show my age, “don’t call me Shirley.”)

If you know shortcuts, I expect you to use them… as long as the Irish Chain blocks come out to 9.5″ square, no one but you will know how you ...

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August 15, 2016
» The Bearister Quilter


Quilt Block of the Week.



We will feature a quilt block of the week. You will be able to find them all grouped together in the page tab on the right side of the blog. We will have an example of the block and how it looks in a quilt and tell you a little about the history of the block, if known.




Week 1- August 15, 2016




Most Basic Block- Mother of all Quilt Blocks- The Basic Four Patch

This has to be the easiest of all quilt blocks. This is an excellent block for a beginning quilter to ...

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