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Hello Friends! Today is check-in 1 for Patriot Dream QAL! I am so glad for those of you who are making this quilt with me. I have to say these blocks are a bit addictive!

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This past weekend, our car club sponsored a Quilts of Valor event. We honored seven veterans, all with Vietnam service. It was the ceremony where this quilt I made with donated stars was awarded to a friend.

You may also recognize this quilt top, sent to me by Mary Ellen. I quilted it for the same ceremony.

Mary Ellen’s quilt went to Edward R, third from the left. My quilt went to Dave B, on the end on the right.

We had a wonderful reception for them following the ceremony, with trays of good things to eat. The buffet ...

First I tried straw, then I teased out wire scourers to apply as mulch, splitting open the end of my thumb but NOTHING seems to stop the pesky slugs that are trashing my strawberries. I have been out at dusk with a trowel, waging war against the slimy pests. My next strategy is to put out beer traps, otherwise I will not be able to eat a single homegrown strawberry without biting into something vile and squelchy. 

It was all-systems-go at work with customer quilts. I think 4 different ones were on the frames this week ranging from brightly coloured ...

Have you ever wondered why we have so many idioms and metaphors related to bees?

I’ve had a bee in my bonnet for some new designs inspired by the colorful pollinators. The hexagon, or beehive structure was a natural selection for creating strong cutouts in my product walls because they reduce the wall density and material usage while maximizing the structure left behind to carry loads. It works out perfectly for some of my newest 3D printed designs. It was a little harder to pull off the hexaons on my couched throw pillows and the fine laser cut details ...

In our town of Hendersonville, we have a yearly art walk exhibit of bears decorated by local artists. The bears are on the street downtown for the summer, then auctioned off to benefits local charities in the fall. This year, several of the bears feature quilt patterns. This one had quilt blocks in mostly blues over its back and legs. The bright colors are eye-catching.

This bear wears a sweater with quilt blocks down the front and back.

This one was my favorite, a patchwork of pastels. There are 20 bears in all, four on the corners of five intersections ...

The heat and humidity are here, flowers are blooming, veggies are growing, and I can’t get enough sewing time. 

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After making the Butterfly Garden quilt, I had several butterfly panels left over. I had already put frames on all of them, not certain how many or which ones I would use for the other quilt. If I had five, I would have made them into a nine block square for a lullaby quilt. But I had six and I wanted to use them all.

Putting them together would not be wide enough for the length, so additional fabric for alternate blocks would be needed.

But I didn’t want to just do a checkerboard setting. I lay them out ...

The Gothic Raven panel is by Rubin Design Studio exclusively for eQuilter.com. It measures 29″ x 44″.

I absolutely love this panel.

I was so surprised by how much color i got out of this panel. I thought it would be much darker. But it is brilliant with color.

The Gothic Raven measures 80″ x 70″ unquilted. I cut my strips 3.25″ wide to yield 5″ finished hexies and 10″ finished Star 60 units made with First Choice rulers and the Star 60 Tool by Studio 180 Design.

The Gothic Raven watches over the Night Garden along with ...

This Bottled Water Quilt block is a fun and simple make, and so easy to customize! The large blue labels finish at

The post Bottled Water Quilt Block appeared first on Always Expect Moore.

I’ve had this quilt in progress since last August. The jelly roll I found went nicely with a butterfly panel plucked from the rehome table at guild that I planned to cut apart. I thought it would be the perfect pairing for a Spotlight Pattern quilt. This quilt is available for purchase, skip to the end if you are interested.

I pulled some sets of strips and began sewing them together.

Then I cut the butterfly motifs apart. At this point, I realized that the butterflies would not trim to the size in the pattern. So, I set them ...

Last week was hot – it got up to the mid 30’s C and was just as warm inside at work which is not ideal for making quilts. I even missed my old workshop which rarely went above 10 degrees C and was always colder inside than out. All I wanted to do after work was sit very still in my cool cottage with a cup of tea.

Apart from watering my plants every day, trying to keep the tomatoes alive, I planted some flowers and seeds in an old paddling pool. Slightly foolishly – I climbed down a ladder to ...

I have a baby shower later this summer and am in need of a quick baby quilt I can whip up. I have several tried and true go-to patterns but I’m in the mood for something different this time.

I was going through my quilt books and came across the Two Timer pattern in the first Stripology Mixology book. Let’s pull some fabrics out and make a block and see what we think.

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 A new project found it's way under my needle this week.WAY back in 2012, I won this FQ bundle in a giveaway from Amy at Diary of a Quilter.It's called Tend the Earth by Deb Strain and it's been patiently waiting on a shelf for a long time. I've been eyeing the Ramona quilt pattern for a while and I had a sudden hankering to put the two together. I wanted a few more low volume prints so

I’ve been reading the magazines I got at the bookshop at the show, and many of them are Quilting Arts. I signed up for their emails, and recently they had a reader challenge. It was called Into Nature. Here is the challenge “Create a small art quilt (6” x 9”, vertical orientation) that reflects your personal connection to the natural world. Explore nature-related themes—leaves, stems, roots, flowers, spores, seeds, or growth cycles—as inspiration for this challenge. Your ideas might come from a specific place, a fleeting moment outdoors, a beloved garden, or abstract responses to nature’s ...

My local quilt group is working on a BOM again this year, this one designed by our “fearless leader”. She’s a talented quilter/designer who has had some quilts published in a magazine, and she volunteered to do this one for us this year. She made the blocks 8″ square, with a separate tree block to […]

 Thank you for all of your very kind comments lately. I don't know what's going on but I stayed up late Thursday night and replied back to all of them individually and then I had a long influx of emails telling me they were undeliverable.

 Well, friends, it seems that I am saying hello once again after a long absence. For the few who still visit, all these years later, you know that much has happened in the past ten years. I spent time recently scrolling through old posts, and I cannot believe that this blog began in 2008. That's getting dangerously close to twenty years ago! What a different world it is today. Not only for me, but the blogging community. It is very different from when I began blogging, as a way to stay connected and talk about quilts and gardening while ...