My cabin design wall looks the same as it did a week ago. We had workmen at the Grand Rapids house painting the outside trim, and also had company. Some weeks just slip away, don’t they? The zig zag quilt is stalled at this point, but I will have to get busy on it, as guests will be in this bed for the July 4th weekend, and the quilt will have to be moved. I am wishing the “lights” were
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June 15, 1963.....57 years ago today.....my wedding day. Such wonderful memories, and such fun to still be in love with my dear hubby. God is good. I finished the embroidered square I was working on, and started another. This is the completed one: It amazes me that the same patterns are published over and over with different names as artist. For instance, I just saw on
read moreHappy Mother’s Day yesterday to all of you who are mothers. Since this coronavirus self-distancing is making me sad......and I am going a little bit mad.......I decided to sew PLAID fabric. I am having the best time with it. Yes, it is a little break from my 2020 UFO mission, but the plaids were calling me. Here’s a little doll quilt that I added a plaid binding to this week. Old Bear,
read moreThe fabrics in the triangles are from the Kaffe Collective and date all the way back from the 1990s until August 2016 and plaids I have collected for 40+ years. There are a couple Martha Negley fabrics in there too. I am SO happy this one is a finished quilt.
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I had stopped buying thrift store shirts. I had plenty, and was tired of cutting them apart. And, I still don't have a tried and true way to store them. If they are in boxes or plastic containers and stacked, I forget about them and forget to use them. But, I discovered a new to me blog of a quilter who uses recycled fabric and my interest was renewed. She has a lot of free patterns and I really like reading about her plans and thinking. Her free patterns are here. Her blog quilted twins is here. There is ...
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