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I feel like such a bad blogger lately ! I have not been keeping up like I want to, but there is a reason ! As a quilt blogger, I like to post pictures and updates on the projects I am working on. The trouble with that, is that my friends and family also read […]

The votes are in and I'm going to take the popular opinion and make the Diamond Echos layout. Besides it's the one that's still up on the design wall so it's all ready to sew together.

While I was playing around with the quilt blocks I started thinking about this block. It was kind of odd that I naturally thought to put my HST blocks into a 4-patch before playing around with the quilt layout. It took some time but I eventually figured out why.

This quilt is why. 

Sometime around 1999 I took a Spectacular ...

Since devoting 10 minutes a day to my blue blocks, I have completed 3 more of them. I still have a long way to go but at least my design wall changed since last week! Woo Hoo! I now have 13 of 32 done.
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Theresa

A fun small finish to show this week!  This quilt was made from the leftovers bits of strings from the Sidewalk Puddles quilt.  I shared a WIP shot of this quilt when it was a top and I hadn't added the red yet. I decided to tear it apart and added the 1/4" red strips and I am sooo glad, because I LOVE it!

Too much to do and not enough time to do it, that is ! It seems like I have a million and one ideas running around my head, but I can’t seem to find enough time to do them all! I did want to share the cute gift I made for my grandmother for her […]

My design wall has had the same blocks on it for several weeks now. During that time I’ve completed several other quilts, but those poor scrappy little blue blocks are getting neglected. So I am hereby going to dedicate 10 minutes each day to sew on the blue blocks.
As of today I have 10 blocks sewn and I need 32.
My goal is to have the top done by July. Hmmm….better go do my 10 minutes for today…..luckily I have a few 9 patches sewn already, maybe I can finish a block in my 10 minute ...

This post is out of order, but I wanted to end the vacation posts on a quilty note!

Very often when we take trips to places where the weather is better (everywhere!) I get ideas of moving.  Many times near the end of trips, I’ll drag Jim to open houses trying to convince him we need another place somewhere warm!  On this trip, though, I was mostly thinking what great places they are to visit, but they were very isolated so I wouldn’t want to live there.  That is until we got to St. George.  It is a ...

Another week, another finish :) This small scrap quilt is made from the leftovers from the Country Home quilt.  It's kind of hard to tell with all the busy-ness, but there are 4 crumb blocks, bordered by muslin sashing, floating in a sea of strings.

I finally made a list of all the things I need to blog about, and realized how behind I am! March just got the better of me, it seems.   Partly I spent a lot more time at work than I normally do, and blogging was what go dropped out of the schedule. I have been quilting like a fiend, however! (I quilt as a stress reliever, so the more stressed I get the more I sew!)

My quilt for the “Make Children Smile – Summer Camp Edition” fundraiser is almost finished ! All that is left is the binding and the label, and it will be ready to go for May 17th ! ( better pics to come once its finished ) I am so happy to be participating in this […]

The scrap quilt project … rejected by me and sewn by my mother.

This is a sad story with a happy ending.

It began at a quilt retreat about 3 years ago. The project was to create a mystery quilt, which turned out to be a scrap quilt. Instead of getting a kit of brand new fabrics, the quilt shop staff had been asked to donate their scraps. Many of these scraps, we all recognized, were from discount shops and not good quality fabric. Since I’m too much of a control freak to enjoy mystery quilts, I hadn’t planned ...

Since I liked the last Crazy Quilt so much, I decided to do another one. This one will be shades of grey and black, and then all of the thread is going to be shades of red. I’ll also be teaching a class on this at the shop soon, so I better hurry up and make it! Now that I bought a new machine, I can do the decorative stitches at home, so I should be pretty far along by Monday morning. We shall see! Wish me luck!

Follow the jump to see pictures of my last Crazy Quilt ...

Let me pose a seemingly simple multiple choice quilting math question to you all …   If Mary is making a quilt that calls for 50 – 2 inch finished half square triangles, what size, and how many squares does she need to cut ? A.) 25 – 2 7/8 inch squares B.) 13 – […]