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July 5, 2025
Sneak Peek: Fireworks (Another Susan Second Chance Quilt) from Wedding Dress Blue

This is another quilt that came from Susan Nixon prior to her death. I am trying to tie up loose ends and honor her.

The top is assembled. I had to create a few blocks to get a complete top. Should have the finish to share in a few weeks.

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June 23, 2025
Design Wall Monday - June 23, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

 Good Morning Quilters!

Today I am having cataract surgery on my left eye, as scheduled.  The right eye surgery went well two weeks ago, so please pray that today’s procedure goes well too.  

The design wall has been actively used this week.  I finished the last of the appliquéd flowers on the border of The Cousin’s Walk quilt, and put it up there to take a picture of it.  This quilt is too big for my design wall!  Here are pictures taken this week before I send it to a long arm quilter:






This is such a happy ...

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June 16, 2025
Design Wall Monday - June 16, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

 Good Morning Quilters!

Yesterday was Father’s Day, and also our wedding anniversary.  We have been married 62 years!  It seems impossible, but there it is.  June 15, 1963……..to June 15, 2025…….and as in the story books, we have lived happily ever after.  I am so blessed.

Quiltwise, I have had another productive week.  First, the Cousin’s Walk appliqué quilt was worked on again, and I made progress on finishing up one of the border corners.  Here is a picture of my progress…..a yellow flower to sew down, and another leaf to add on the opposite ...

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June 9, 2025
Design Wall Monday - June 9, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

 Good Morning Quilters!

Today I am having cataract surgery on my right eye.  Please pray that it goes well, and that my eyes will be well again soon so I can continue quilting.  The surgeon said I should be able to see colors more clearly after surgery, so that should be a good quilting thing!  If all goes well, the left eye will be done two weeks from now.

Progress has been made on my two UFOs up on the design wall.  I made the remaining four blocks for the log cabin doll quilt.  Next, it will be sewn together ...

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June 2, 2025
Design Wall Monday - June 2, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Good Morning Quilters!


June is here and my quilt mojo is back, so I’ve been very productive.  The log cabin blocks have multiplied to more than 100 blocks.  These blocks will finish at 7.5 inches square.


They are awaiting their time on the design wall.  There is no room because the design wall has my indigo and shirting Jane Stickle quilt blocks on it - at least the first six rows:




I have made at least five blocks since I last took a photo, and having it on the design wall is motivating me to fill in the gaps ...

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May 19, 2025
Design Wall Monday - May 19, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Good Morning Quilters!

This past week, I worked more on appliqué leaves and flowers for the Cousin’s Walk quilts.  I have one end of two of the borders yet to do, and am feeling the surge to finish it.  So glad that I am working on it again.

Here are the ends of two borders that are now finished:


The second project ongoing is the UFO of Log Cabin.blocks.  I made 10 more blocks that will finish at 7.5 inches square.  While sewing them, I wondered what little blocks would look like.  You know I like to ...

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May 12, 2025
Design Wall Monday - May 12, 2025 from Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

 Happy Mother’s Day to you!

Last week I got out my UFO log cabin quilt blocks.  I looked back on my blog posts and the last time I had this project out was February, 2021.




But last week, the simplicity of adding strips of dark and light fabric around a center red square was just what I needed.  Here is a picture of the 200 center squares that were the start of this project many years ago:




I had only about 16 blocks (that will finish at 7.5” square) before this week, and made some good progress on ...

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February 11, 2025
I'm Still Quilting from Quilty Folk

 I keep running out of time to write up this post. The 'Folksy Tree & Baskets' quilt top is finally finished! All the applique done and dusted.*sigh

Getting the birds stitched down
I am so thrilled about the birds on this quilt! They look very fat and happy.

And a finished quilt top!
It just feels like they make this very brown and blue quilt come alive.

So happy with the scrapped together
background fabric look
When all the birds, berries and leaves on the tree were attached, then I realized that the baskets needed just a little bit extra ...

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November 22, 2024
Bramble Blooms Quilts are Progressing and A Couple New Starts! from Quilty Folk

Though I try to keep the open ended projects at 10 or less, a couple projects just demanded to be started this month. First off is the barely-there start to a very large improv. style Log Cabin quilt. It's going to be golds, cream, brown, black, green and rusty reds. Had to start it before the snow fell or it might end up being another year!

Feels good to start something new!
That put me at 10 projects, but then.... I just couldn't resist. So I went ahead and started what I'm calling 'This Old Friend'. The ...

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May 26, 2023
Friday Finish: Antelope Canyon Quilt from Patchwork Sampler Blog

I am THRILLED to finish this quilt. It is the one I wrote about yesterday–the one where my lack of machine quilting skills is quite apparent.

This is the Antelope Canyon quilt, a pattern is by Laurie Shifrin Designs. The pattern is available in many places but is on sale here. You can also see several variations of the quilt on that page. I purchased the pattern and fabric kit in April of 2017 so it has been sitting for six years. The fabrics are Jason Yenter’s Texture Graphix by In The Beginning. The dark fabrics are very ...

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March 12, 2022
Baby Quilts Up for Auction from Jean Swenson


Scooter & Tod

I have donated these two recently finished scrappy quilts to my grandkids elementary school for a silent auction that will raise money for school programs. If you are interested in bidding on either of these baby quilts, you can bid on Scooter (airplane) here, and Tod (fox) here.

Each quilt measures 40″x40″ and is made from 100% cotton outer, with 80/20 cotton/poly batting, machine pieced and quilted.

The auction is open from March 11-19, 2022.

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Baby Quilts Up for Auction from Jean Swenson


Scooter & Tod

I have donated these two recently finished scrappy quilts to my grandkids elementary school for a silent auction that will raise money for school programs. If you are interested in bidding on either of these baby quilts, you can bid on Scooter (airplane) here, and Tod (fox) here.

Each quilt measures 40″x40″ and is made from 100% cotton outer, with 80/20 cotton/poly batting, machine pieced and quilted.

The auction is open from March 11-19, 2022.

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March 9, 2022
February Renter Retrospective from Quilted Joy

Can you believe that another month has passed us by? Where is the year going so fast? It is time for a renter retrospective. We got to see a lot of lovely quilts this month. I love the creativity of our renters. They always surprise me with what they bring in. There are so many great patterns out there, and then there are an infinite number of fabric combinations to do with them. It never gets old.

Art Deco Rulerwork

image of Carolyn holding up her art deco inspired quilt

Carolyn’s daughter-in-law wanted a quilt that was Art Deco. So Carolyn got online and found this fabric. It is ...

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February 27, 2022
Almost March from Northern Deb Quilts

It seems like February just started and now it's almost March. Spring is on the way! Of course, here in Michigan we still have a chance of snow until May. Almost every year around Easter, we will get hit with a huge snowstorm. Hopefully not this year. With spring right around the corner I thought I would do some spring cleaning... in my sewing room.

It was a disaster before this. I'm piecing 3 or 4 quilts right now. The main two are on the floor and on the wall. I found old log cabin blocks as I ...

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January 31, 2022
Scooter from Jean Swenson


Scooter
January 2022

Every Spring, I try to participate in the Hands2Help Challenge hosted by Sarah over at Confessions of a Fabric Addict @fabricaddictquilts. This year I decided to get a jump start on making baby quilts for this great cause. Since I was working to deplete my scraps bins with my recent Tod quilt, I kept the momentum going and made these yellow and blue log cabin blocks with “mostly” scraps. I say “mostly” because I was being a bit too fussy about the colorway, and did go into my stash for some of the blues and yellows. I ...

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December 3, 2021
Stargazer Quilt from The Cutting Table Quilt Blog - A Blog for Quilters by Quilters

Stargazer Quilt by Jenny Doan of the Missouri Star Quilt Company.

The ancient peoples of the earth knew a lot about stars. 

Egyptians watched for Sirius’ predawn appearance to signal the annual flooding of the Nile. Polynesian navigators traversed the vast Pacific Ocean with nothing but the stars to guide them.  And the Maya used the movement of the heavens to create the most accurate calendar in the world. 

Stargazer Quilt by Jenny Doan of the Missouri Star Quilt Company.

I, on the other hand, struggle to spot the Big Dipper. (But I sure can stitch up a pretty star quilt!)

This week, Jenny has created a celestial wonder of her own with jelly roll strips and a bit of yardage. The ...

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September 3, 2021
Three for Margaret from Night Owl Quilting


Margaret sent this very unique Lake Views quilt.  The pattern is by Doug Leko of Antler Quilt Designs and features Holly Taylor's  Lake View fabric.  Margaret recently moved to the lake full time, so this quilt couldn't be more perfect.


Margaret selected the Ripples pantograph, and it finishes it off perfectly.






Next up is a lovely Log Cabin quilt.  How can you go wrong with a classic like this?

 
The breath of the gods pantograph was the choice to finish this one.


And last but not least is something completely different - a modern quilt pattern that Margaret found ...

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August 24, 2021
It's Always a Pleasure to Switch Out the Old Quilt in the Hoop For a New One from Quilty Folk

This quilt has been in the hoop for longer than any other quilt in years. So very happy to see it finally come to a good finish and give me an excuse to move on to another quilt! It's an AHIQFlowers prompt where I took great liberty in the interpretation of one of those intriguing Unconventional & Unexpected scrap quilts. 

AHIQFlowers quilt finish!

As you can quickly see when looking at the picture of the original quilt, there were no flower shapes involved in the original make. Somehow though, {to me}, the scrappy mess down on the lower right corner ...

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June 6, 2021
Scrappy Saturday ~ 30s Repros Log Cabin Blocks from Life in the Scrapatch

 


Happy Scrappy Saturday Sewing! 

It is 90F degrees outside today and my knee is still aching,

so I am staying inside and sewing scrappy this Saturday.

This block is for a scrappy log cabin quilt.


I am using the "Paper Bag Scrap Method" for choosing my strips.

Whatever strip that comes out of the bag is the next to be placed.

This makes a truly random placement plan,

I am thinking I may add a white tone-on-tone sashing 

between the blocks in my quilt. 


This is a 5 inch block, made perfect by these easy to use foundation papers.

I ...

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May 26, 2021
A Log Cabin Quilt with Mystery from Ann Quilts


I really fell in love with this "homey" log cabin.  It's such a cozy look - and feel, too, as the fabrics are well-loved and very soft.

Family history says it was made in Virginia for the owner's mother, at or shortly after her birth, so in 1920-22.  The fabrics support that oral history, and it's a lovely collection of fabrics from the 1920s.

The mystery is that the top row of blocks was cut off at some point, and then reattached.  You can see that the straight furrow design reverses at the top row.  The reattaching was ...

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