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I absolutely love the colors in Canyonlands and couldn’t wait to get my hands on it. Canyonlands panel by the Morris Creative Group for QT Fabrics measures 36″ x 42″. QT Fabrics has given me and Terri Butler Canyonlands to make a One Block Wonder (OBW) quilt and jacket.

Into the Woods coordinating fabrics were used to enhance my OBW.

I cut my strips 3.25″ for 5″ finished hexies.

The into the Woods coordinates were perfect for making the Hollow Cube’s. I used my Star 60 Tool and Hollow Cube 60 Technique Sheet!

Going through the design ...

It wouldn’t be fall without something Pumpkin Spice, right? So, grab your latte, and fire up your embroidery machine for a Pumpkin Spice wall hanging.

If you’d like this particular saying for your embroidery machine, it is available on Designs by Juju (not affiliated) in a set called Harvest Sayings Set 1. Stitch it out, and trim to 6-1/2-inches square. Match your thread colors to your fabric choices. You could also use a hand embroidered motif. Once again, if you do not have an embroidery machine, fussy cut a motif for the center section.

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These monthly posts help me keep track of projects, but they seem to roll around awfully fast. This month I cut and pieced this Arcade quilt top for a friend's son. It's a 3-yard quilt that I made bigger I took it, and the 16-patch top I made for his sister last month, to Jackie last week.I made the bindings for both quilts, plus another for a scrappy quilt I made a few months agoI worked on

When I was working on potholders earlier this month, I pulled this fabric to use to bind the western setsI cut what I needed and tossed the remainder of the folded yardage to the side, into my put-these-away basket, where it landed next to thisOh, wait...I like that! What else can I add? And so it begins.

Below is Brian Stauffer's "Winds of Change", a marvelous painting for The New Yorker cover on October 13. I wondered if this could be worked into a design for a quilt or embroidered piece. I do like curlicues. And I also wondered about what he meant by featuring these two things together. The noisy leaf blower and the beautiful design of nature. What do you think he's telling us?

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year! Ah, yes, for me this is Autumn. I love the colors of the season, the cool crisp air, and the anticipation of the holidays especially Thanksgiving (my favorite day of the year). When I found this sentiment with an autumn theme, I had to make some projects with it. You saw it on the first hexagon project, and now let’s have more fun with it.

For this runner, embroider this motif, or a similar motif on two squares. If you like this one with the fall theme for the sentiment ...

This cute filler freemotion design is a variation and the classic Pebble design. Add a curl on this inside to create the look of a cinnamon roll or the rolled up sides of a cinnamon stick.

The Cinnamon design works well for quilts with themes like Autumn, Fall, Winter, Christmas, cooking, pastry, cake. It can also be used in art quilts to represent water, bubbles, fossils, shells or various organic items.

Pattern Tutorial

This Pebble variation works like most do; travel around the circle to add decorative elements or to get to the spot for your next circle.

The circles ...

Our local guild is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and our guest speaking on Saturday will be Sherri McConnell of A Quilting Life. As it happens, it was from her blog that the circle I attend chose this year’s BOM as a group project, so we’ve been asked to bring our blocks to the […]

 The Red Squirrels are very busy these days. I can get this shot standing by my sink as this tree is in the front garden and has grown from a little bush to a much bigger bush putting the squirrel pretty much right in front of me. I've had the pleasure of capturing many photos of these little animals in just this pose eating spruce buds. 

Swan Song by The Morris Creative Group for QT Fabrics. Panel measures 36″ x 42″ with the outer border. I cut off the border to use as an outer border on the quilt. I cut my strips 3.25″ to yield 5″ finished hexies.

The ivory vintage buttons symbolize the swan eggs. The Swans are lovingly watching over their nest.

Swan Song measures 67″ x 62″ (unquilted). The large block representing the sun is 15″. It was made with the Star 60 Tool and the Star 60 Log Cabin Technique Sheet. The blue 5″ cubes represent rocks. They were ...

 Quilters don't ask quilters that question, but I get it on occasion from others. Àlthough my MIL asks it a lot and she used to make quilts.

Get ready to fall head over heels for the recolor of the Clover Quilt Pattern by Cluck Cluck Sew in the Pick Me collection by Me & My Sister Designs for Moda Fabrics in the brand new Head Over Heels Quilt Kit! Keep reading to explore this bold recolor and watch a video tutorial that teaches you how to make these blocks, no luck required.

Head Over Heels Quilt Kit

The Head Over Heels Quilt Kit includes one Layer Cake, background fabric, and binding fabric from the Pick Me collection by Me & My Sister Designs for Moda Fabrics to make the ...

 Early morning dance party non participants...but they want to be near me anyway. Ned is bored but Petey is trying to understand what is it I'm doing.