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Hello friends! Today I’m excited to share a fun patchwork pouch in our Summer Sweet fabrics. The pattern is from a delightful new book, Perfectly Pretty Patchwork by Kristyne Czepuryk of Pretty By Hand. I’ve been following Kristyne for years through her blog and Instagram accounts and have always loved her beautiful projects with an […]

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Today I am participating in the Jelly Glazed Hearts tablerunner blog hop with the Fat Quarter Shop! Check out their post on the Jolly Jabber here!

For this project, I picked a mini jelly roll of the new Alma line from the Ruby Star Society and picked one of cream prints for the background fabric.

Today I am participating in the Fat Quarter Shop's "pattern remix" for their Patchwork Christmas Stocking pattern!

Hello and happy Tuesday! And welcome to this month’s Minis & More | Small Project Ideas post. I’m sharing some recently finished reader projects along with a few more ideas for quick finishes for the holidays! Star Drops Pillow by Hildy Hildy used a new-to-me Star Drops pattern for this fun pillow finish!The red print […]

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Hello and happy Monday! Today I’m sharing fun quick patchwork Christmas ornaments that I’ve been working on for the three this year. For many years I’ve had a tradition of making handmade ornaments for our tree and to gift to family and friends. This year I decided to finish them up early and put them […]

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Hello and happy Wednesday. Welcome to the Minis & More | Christmas Projects parade. Today I’m sharing some fun Christmas projects that are fast and fun. There is still time to make fun Christmas quilts and projects in time to use them to decorate for the season. Christmas Jars Table Runner I absolutely love Brenda’s […]

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My October Island Batik Ambassador challenge is complete!

…you have to improvise a little.

My last baby quilt left me with a bunch of HST clippings in aqua and teal hues. The scraps were barely 1.5” square,  would I have trimmed them up before sewing with them I might have ended with a grid as small as 0.5”. Nope, that wasn’t a day for tiny piecing and I don’t need much convincing to skip trimming in general. I was going to wing it that day and just piece those HSTs in the shapes they came in – no discrimination, just improvising.

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Hello again!

I’m back after my summer blogging break and I have been working on some new patterns that I’m super excited about.

I also joined the wonderful quilting community on Instagram – if you haven’t tried Instagram yet, I recommend it wholeheartedly!  There are so many lovely and talented quilters on there who freely share their ideas and advice – I find it such an inspiring place to be!  My username is @sewingroomsecrets if you want to follow along , I’d love to connect with you there!

It was on Instagram that I first came across the idea ...