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Some quilting and a quilt show! from A Prim and (not so) Proper Quilter

A wonderful, quilting-filled long weekend—despite the monsoon rains.

I visited Katrina this past weekend for some good girlfriend time—and the bonuses included (1) a guild meeting where Katrina was the program speaker and both of us won door prizes, (2) attending the Q.U.I.L.T. Guild of Northwest Arkansas’s biannual show, and (3) quilting the Tattoo quilt!

Katrina belongs to a longarm quilting guild, and she presented a topic near and dear to me—organization. I loved hearing her ideas as well as ideas from the other guild members.

After the meeting, we slogged our ...

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Early 2025 updates from A Prim and (not so) Proper Quilter

Life continues to happen, but you can bet I will always plan to quilt.

Tattoo quilt: my plan to go to Katrina’s to quilt the Tattoo Quilt in February was thwarted by a bout with the flu. Katrina and I have now rescheduled for the first weekend in April. The quilt top, backing, binding and threads are packed and ready to go.

Next new project from the list is the Sierra log cabin quilt with the Jennifer Sampou SKY Ombre fabrics (that’s Jennifer’s version of the quilt on the right). I’m pumped about this one, and ...

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Working out of the winter doldrums from A Prim and (not so) Proper Quilter

—they hit every January.

I was a bit under the weather this past week—nothing serious, just allergy-related—and I mentioned in my last post the desire to hibernate. Something popped up in my Facebook feed Sunday morning that said we had just survived the 10 darkest weeks of the year—an “Aha” moment, to be sure. I decided that moment that I felt well enough to tackle the binding on the Tattoo quilt.

While a lot of the tattoo quilt I’m making mimics the Tula Pink version, I made a decision (with assistance from dear friends) while sashing ...

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All the stuff from A Prim and (not so) Proper Quilter

My words for this year are “catalog” and “organization”—Nothing romantic about that, is there?

Combined with the annual "I need to hibernate" feeling, January comes with mixed blessings.

People who know me are aware of my ability to apply logic, reasoning and sequencing when processing a way to do or complete a task, assignment or project. It was probably one of my top skill sets in my career. That sort of goes out the window when I’m quilting…when I say “Quilting is my crack,” it’s the truth. I go into that euphoric state, even if it ...

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The Tattoo quilt, block 5 — from A Prim and (not so) Proper Quilter

Grace — a topic near and dear to me.

Grace is one of those things that means a lot to some people, including myself. Prevenient grace was something I knew nothing about prior to my baptism, but embraced post-conversion. The older I get, the more I practice giving grace to others; and now I’m trying to give myself more grace—it’s easier now than it was earlier in my life.

While Grace in this context may not be what the pattern designer meant when she designed this block, it’s how I’m seeing it. While a swan may ...

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The Tattoo Quilt, block 4 — from A Prim and (not so) Proper Quilter

Hell hath no fury than a confused quilter.

Fury is the block and my fury rose while cutting the pieces for this one. Goodness gracious, this one required six hours of cutting the fabrics.

I celebrated my birthday by spending the entire day in the studios. At 9:00 am I walked into the cutting room. I took a 20 minute break around noonish, went back to cutting and emerged at 3:15 pm with all pieces cut. Y’all, the cutting on this one is tedious.

I immediately moved into the sewing room and stitched sections A, B, C ...

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The Tattoo quilt, block 3– from A Prim and (not so) Proper Quilter

Courage, dear heart. — C. S. Lewis.

This was the saying that kept going through my mind as I pieced this block. Fiddly, and time-consuming; and my mind went to enough different places while I worked on it that I made several mistakes in the cutting of the fabrics.

No coup here, but this was a good start on the first day of piecing this block.

I’m now considering cutting out the remaining pieces of the entire quilt so I can just sew, trim and press. A long weekend should fill the bill, so long as I’m not interrupted.

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The Tattoo Quilt, block 2 -- from A Prim and (not so) Proper Quilter

The Hope block…as in I hope I have the wherewithal to continue this project…

DISCLAIMER: When I started writing this post, it was about 6 weeks ago. Life (actually, death) intervened and I talk a little bit about it in this post, so here’s your trigger warning. All references to days are from that time because I didn’t feel like guessing at when they were. Enjoy.

My goodness. Talk about labor intensive—two sections have a triangle about half the size of a pea. And Sunday, I saw where someone on Reddit had pieced the quilt and ...

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The Tattoo Quilt, first block— from A Prim and (not so) Proper Quilter

—the Love Heart block!

February was the month of love and even though Valentine’s Day has passed, I decided to start with this as my first block in the pattern...in February…but first:

I like to read patterns. I like to pore over them and note anything unusual and since I’ve mentioned the like-hate relationship with paper piecing, I look for tips and suggestions to make it easier for my brain to process the piecing of the units.

I opened the PDF of the pattern to read, and as I was going through I started thinking that ...

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A new Tattoo quilt—The Intro from A Prim and (not so) Proper Quilter

This project may prove my undoing or the welcome of epiphany moments—time will tell.

I have sort of a like-hate relationship with foundation paper piecing, and I’m hopeful this will be the gateway to a love of it. I consider the technique a necessary evil in some situations, and have tried to avoid those situations. But I learned of this particular quilt pattern when Tula Pink showed hers in her Tula Talk Tuesday videos on Facebook and Instagram in mid-2020 and was immediately smitten. This was during the Click Buy Now period; I bought the pattern and a ...

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