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It's time to show off my finished vintage inspired quilt and compare it to its inspiration!

My finished quilt:

The original quilt:


After finishing the quilt, I decided to see if I had any Hobbs batting in my Island Batik Ambassador box that would be the right size for my 40 x 48 baby quilt -- and I was in luck! As an Island Batik Ambassador, I am provided with samples of various lines of Island Batik fabrics and Hobbs batting to use and share with you!


In my box, I had a crib size (45" x 60") cotton batting ...

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I have stitched for at least 15 minutes per day on 11 out of 16 days so far this month (68%) so I am on track with my 15-minutes-to-stitch goal. As of yesterday I am at  54/75 days for the year which is 72%. Since the goal I set was to stitch 50% of the days I am doing well. 

I finished the T shirt quilt and the binding on the log cabin wheel-chair quilt. Since it is super-scrappy I am linking up today with Oh Scrap. I have been working on quilting a bargello wall hanging that I ...

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Today I felt a lot better than I have in over 2 weeks. My throat is the only issue. I can't seem to talk now, but that is the only issue so far.

I woke to find Katt gone. I figured she was off taking photos. She's leaving in the morning. So, I took her quilt and put it on the bed downstairs so she could see it when she came back.

It looks good on the spare bed. She seems really happy with it. It was one she picked and I worked on it while at retreat ...

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The good news for today is that I was able to finish Katt's Black and White quilt. I haven't had the chance to take a photo of it, but I will do that tomorrow.

I worked on her quilt while she went to have lunch with her brother in Olympia. I was happy to see the two of them getting time together.

Once the quilt was finished it went into the wash. There was so much cat hair and dirt on it, that it needed to be washed.

Mom came about 3:30 pm and we went down ...

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The quilting was supposed to be done by last Wednesday, but it wasn't. I started quilting with a variegated thread and I didn't like how it looked so after part of a block was quilted I stopped and tore it out. I switched to a grey thread which looked much better on the different T shirts and finished quilting and binding the whole thing ...

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Welcome to my stop on the Text It! blog hop, sharing the gorgeous and fun projects from Sherri Noel's (Rebecca Mae Designs) new book, Text It!
Sherri's book has 10 Quilt and Pillow patterns as well as 7 full sized alphabets so you can personalize any project or make something of your own inspired by the book.

I was looking for a quick project as I have a lot going on, as I browsed through her book I found the perfect project. It goes well with my project from 'Dusting off a Quilt Book' .

I used some of ...

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I made a mini!

This 12.5" block has been hanging around in my pile of orphan blocks since at least 2014. Yes, 2014! This block came to me as a swap block, when I participated in a monthly block swap on Flickr. (Takes me way back!)

I used many of the other blocks to make these baby quilts but this was one of the blocks whose color scheme wasn't exactly right.

I was just in the mood to do a little FMQ and burn through some batting scraps. I quilted this with white Aurifil in a meander. The ...

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My latest mini quilt is complete! Making mini quilts was our "assignment" as Island Batik Ambassadors this month -- a fun and quick project was just the thing for me this month!

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I am so excited to wrap this one up and put it in the finished pile.  I started this some time ago.  When we hosted a retreat in 2017 with Bonnie Hunter the Spider Web String was one of the quilts that the participants made.

Oops…there’s snow on the right hand lower part of the quilt…it’s so snowy here!!

You can find the free pattern for this quilt on Bonnie Hunter’s site HERE.  She did hers in a 6 x 7 setting.  I did mine larger.  It’s an  8 x 8 setting.  The quilt ...

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It's my day too show an old a forgotten quilt book. This blog hop is being hosted by Beaquilter. The idea was to dust off, excuse me while I find the duster it's around here some place. Ahh dust bunnies be gone. Anyway the idea was to make a project from it.

After doing a big clean a few years ago, I thought I had given away my older quilt books. Imagine my surprise at finding a book from 1994. I think I kept it as I liked a couple of the projects in it.

1994 I think ...

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I’m so thrilled to have this one done!!  The baby has been contemplating an early arrival….well not the baby as much as Kalissa’s recent tests and ultrasounds.  A week ago at an ultrasound little Mr. Friedman was already an over 8 pound baby.  That was with a month to go.  A C-section before the due date has been mentioned…for now we wait.  We need to keep that baby incubating as long as we can.

In light of all of that, it’s good I have this finished!!

I took a lot of pictures and hope to ...

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Welcome to my stop on the Turnabout Patchwork blog hop! I’m excited to share this book with you. If you like what you see, be sure to enter the giveaway at the bottom of this post.

Turnabout Patchwork is a new book by Teresa Mairal Barreu of Sewn Up. The whole book is based around “disappearing” blocks (like a disappearing nine patch). You sew a block, cut it up, and spin the parts to create something new. The result is a stunning quilt that’s much easier than it looks.

I was absolutely thrilled when Teresa allowed me the ...

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I have a finish! I’m really excited to share this with you. I finished the top and quilting ages ago, but only recently found the time to put on the binding.

I made this runner from a charm pack of Tonga Romance. I cut each of the squares diagonally into quarters, and randomly sewed them into quarter square triangles. I kept the pieces by my machine and sewed it as a leader-ender project. I love how leaders and enders make it feel like you’re getting a free quilt without taking any extra time for sewing.

I quilted it ...

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Here it is people….Hunter’s Star and it’s completely finished.

I am THRILLED with it.  I started this at the same time I started the mystery.  I would sew the mystery clue and then sew on the Hunter’s Star quilt.  I had a secret hope that I could finish them both at the same time…and for the most part, I did.  I had Hunter’s Star into a top but abandoned that when the reveal for the mystery came out.  I finished the mystery and then loaded this on the frame right away.

I hurried to ...

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Baby Quilt finished and ready to deliver to the Guild's Charity Quilt Project coordinator

This weekend is quilt retreat and I have gathered my projects and am packing my supplies. My goals for retreat are:

• hang out with my friends
• finish all the units for my Streak of Lightning Quilt 
• quilt my log cabin lap quilt which is basted and ready to machine quilt
• make progress on piecing the green and pink bargello I started at retreat last Fall
• maybe work on my AQG Mystery quilt

Finished Ballerina Bears Quilt

• turn in the baby quilts I quilted for the ...

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I am so excited to share my quilt for the Getaway Blog Hop, hosted by Island Batik!

As I previewed two weeks ago, I am working with the Bazaar collection this time around:


This collection has a tropical feel! I love that many of the prints have orange featured!

I decided that I wanted to turn my half yards of this fabric into a queen sized quilt using our Dashing to the Chapel pattern (available on Etsy and PayHip!)



I used ten slightly larger scale prints (and the rainbow batiks) for the larger church dash blocks, and used six smaller ...

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 It feels good to have a finish this soon in the new year. I wanted something new for my table, you can read more about that here. I like the soft colours I used in this piece. That new star block ain't too bad either. It is paper pieced using one of my favourite methods freezer paper.

first finish of 2019

As you can tell the picture was taken on a cloudy overcast day. I apologize but ladies it's way to cold to go play outside today, it's -15 Celsius feeling like -25 with the windchill in ...

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My twin sized version of my Blocked Rainbow pattern is finally complete! This pattern was our QAL in Spring 2018 and I had made the throw size version in 2017 with fabrics from Benartex. I did actually finish this in December 2018, but we have been racing around nonstop since December 22nd between traveling for Christmas, packing, and moving. Things have finally settled down and I finally was able to snap pictures of this finish!

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This is a LONG list this year!

1. Claire's Butterflies (pattern here!)

2. Twinkle Throw -- (pattern here!)


3. Garden Plots


4. Farmer's Wife


5. Wonderlust Placemats (and Tutorial!)


6. Sunset Gathering


7. Four Square Mini (pattern *was* on Craftsy, will update with new location)


8. Top Spin


9. Odori Quilt


10. Pinwheel Plus


11. Bias Table Table Runner


12. April Cubicle Quilt


13. May Cubicle Quilt


14. Antietam Baby Quilt

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Today we didn't have plans - other than bowling.

Of course Patrick didn't like my stacks in the computer room, so I cleaned up my pile of genealogy and put them away Then I was about to go back downstairs to sew when I remembered we were going to move a few of my plants downstairs because of Sophie. She love my plants. So, I took a plant downstairs, and before I knew it, we were cleaning up the blue room.

In between cleaning, I asked Patrick to help me get a photo of the quilt that's going ...

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