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Probably 5 or 6 years ago, I bought this sailboat collection called On Deck from Craftsy on clearance:I made this baby quilt a few years ago and finally finished it last yearI put the fabrics away when I originally pieced the top, but a couple years later, I decided it was time to clear out some bins. I pulled these out again and just cut everything into 5" squares. I still think these prints are

When I was talking to our boy one day, he said that our granddaughter loved Blue's Clues. They don't really let her watch television much, but Blue's Clues is one show they'll watch with her so when I ran across some Blue's Clues fabric, I decided she needed a quilt under the Christmas tree this year. So fabric arrived and the cutting began:I pulled coordinating fabrics from my stash  And decided

Today I'm sharing another UFO that's been hanging around for a while. In 2016, I stumbled upon a quilt along over at My Carolina Home and I thought it'd be a good opportunity to use some of my 30's fabrics and I paired them with Kona Snow. Heaven knows I've got a healthy stash of 30's! I wonder how many quilts I need to make before the bin will close. LOL.Well I gave it the old college try with

3 weeks ago a co-worker shared that her cousin's baby was having surgery in Houston. He was born with Craniosynostosis - a premature fusion of the cranial sutures (soft spots). I went home and began pulling fabrics for a quilt. I've been collecting fabrics for I Spy quilts for some time and I thought Clayton needed one so sewing commenced. I used a disappearing 9-patch for the design and pulled

This quilt has been in the works for years. I knew I wanted to make it when I first saw the pattern in this bookI loved the name as well as the design. Yogi and BooBoo were a part of my childhood and I can't help thinking of them and laughing at their antics when I recall the name of this quilt.This is hands down my favorite quilt book from my favorite designer. Carrie - you are a genius! I

When our girl was home for a visit this summer, she requested a flannel rag quilt. My MIL made her one when she was 9 and it is beyond tattered, but she still has it.

I bought this set of fat quarters years ago when they popped up on a 50% off sale at the Fat Quarter Shop. The collection is My Country Garden (2011) by Lydia Quigley of the Rabbit Factory for Clothworks Fabrics. And then they sat. For a long time. Last year I thought it high time they deserved some attentionI paired the collection with a yellow grunge and used what is becoming a favorite

The day after the kids headed back, our girl called with a quilt request. A little 2-yr old boy was diagnosed with Leukemia and would I happen to have a quilt ready to send. I try to keep some on hand for just this reason, and while I seem to have an abundance of quilts for girls, my collection is lacking in suitable quilts for little boys. We wanted something fairly small that would be easy to

I bought this kit on clearance from Craftsy - they had some great deals back in the day - in September 2016 (blogs are great for keeping track of everything) and last year I decided it had lived in a bin long enough:I'm not a big fan of kits, but I've caved on occasion. Pulling fabrics together for projects is one of my favorite parts of the quilting journey and kits remove that aspect so I'm

I know, I am posting a lot of quilt finishes lately. I didn't finish anything the first half of the year and now they are all coming together at once, but most of them have been on the assembly line for a few years. I have 2 more here that need binding and I'm picking one up from Jackie on Monday - that one needs to be finished first. Sometimes I feel like I'm spinning my wheels and not finishing

It's not often that I begin a quilt and finish it the same year, much less the same month, but I pieced this a few weeks ago using fabric from the Songbook collection And this pattern I shared it with ya'll a few posts ago here:SongbookAnd I handed it off to Jackie on a Monday. I have a few others waiting in the wings, but I asked her to move this one to the top and she called a week ago Sunday

One of the first fabric collections I bought when I began quilting was Fresh Flowers by Deb Strain for Moda. I dug through my archives to find the quilt I made with it back in 2012I ended up donating it for a family fundraiser, but I hung on to the scraps and finally dug them out in 2019. I saw a design on Pinterest I loved and began sketching out the block to make the best use of the fabric I

Well it took 7 months, but I finally have my first quilt finish of the year to share.I started quilting 12 years ago and this is one of the first fabrics I bought and I probably bought 4 or 5 yards of it. I loved it and I still love it today. It was called Quite Contrary and I made a lot of baby quilts with it. I've finally come to the end of it with this little quilt and it may very well be my