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Quick update on my 2025 Quiltober Quilt. I got it loaded and quilted. More to follow. 

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It has been a while since I updated on my 6-Day Crochet Star blanket. 
I ended the same way I started: with light gray. It's nice to finish something. I need to see what I have to make a scrappy version of this one. Some of the one's I've seen are simply stunning. 

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Each round is taking more time now. I had to grab a bigger project bag to hold it because my medium bag wasn't cutting it any more. Still loving this blanket. Are you working on any long-term projects?

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Another round on the star blanket. This is a great project. I've almost memorized the pattern. Just a few more rounds. 
I think the next one I make will be a different color every row. Because I like to challenge myself. 

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This one is coming in a little late today. I forgot all about it until after my workday. 
At any rate, I've been working on my star blanket all week. 
Some days I get a round finished. 
Some days I don't. I think I almost have the pattern down. I'm having fun and it keeps growing. I see more of these in my future. Perhaps with loads of different colors, or self-striping cakes, and even different yarns for some added texture. Stick around to see how it grows. 

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Last month YouTube fed me some videos about the 6-Day Crochet Star blanket from Betty McKnit. I decided I wanted to make one. I sat down with my copy of the pattern, and the YouTube videos and got stitching. 
I'm using up some yarn I picked up from one of the big box stores. I have a collection of blues and grays that I'll be using for this project. I'll try to post periodically to show you how I'm progressing. 

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Evidently, these tiny toolboxes are all the rage on the internet. We were at the home improvement warehouse and found them. We picked up a set, one for me, and one for my darling husband. 
I had some delightful purple felt to the drawers. I'm not sure where I'm going to put it. I do know that it needs a bunch of stickers. 

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I sewed the columns and rows together for my Quiltober quilt. 
I decided to frame the center with a narrow 2" border and then a 6" border. If I had picked the outer border earlier in the process, I might have added more blues to the blocks and fewer greens and oranges. Not that it matters. I still have plenty of 2.5" charm squares. I might make another. 

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Remember my project box full of Quiltober blocks? Well, I pulled out that project box and started putting the blocks on the design wall.
I'm not sure this is the final layout but here is where I stand. Do you have any scrappy projects you would like to finish this year?

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At the beginning of October, the Nine Patch a Day group started their annual Quiltober project. I grabbed a yard of red fabric for my constant and some of my light 2.5" strips. I used the Creative Grids Triangle ruler.
I spent October piecing these blocks until I had enough for a good-sized quilt. How many? More than 100 blocks. I need to get them up onto the design wall and sewn up into a quilt. These squares came from my overflowing bin of 2.5" charms. I didn't even make a dent in that bin. 

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Remember my big squares? 
I made them into these great blocks using Bonnie Hunter's Scrappy Mountain Majesties tutorial. Then I added a couple borders. Ready for quilting.  

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I've been looking at the tutorial from Bonnie Hunter for her Scrappy Mountain Majesties for a couple weeks. I decided it was time to find some coordinating light and dark prints and make some half-square triangle blocks. Check back in about a week to see how they turn out. 

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Happy Birthday to me! Since I know what I like best, I bought myself this ruler for my birthday. From the Amazon description: "Created by Gudrun Erla of GE Design, this ruler includes all the features you expect from the original Stripology Ruler with the bonus benefits of the Stripology Squared."

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The belt loops on my partners pats had worn through. I sliced up a some denim from another pair of pants and pulled out the belt loop attachments for my Baby Lock. After about thirty minutes of looking for the directions and setting up the machine (it doesn't take long unless you don't use all the features very often. I ended up using the 3/4" attachment.  
This attachment makes quick work of making the belt loop pieces.
In a ...

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Another two rounds. It is almost big enough to be a sweater! I'll see what it looks like after I get the next row completed. That first green sure isn't messing around. 

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I've added the borders to my odd blocks quilts and I think that pulls it all together. 
This was a great experiment! Keep your eye out for more odd block quilts. 

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Sometimes I make blocks just to try them out. Sometimes I don't have enough of these to make anything. Those odd blocks desire to become a quilt. Here we have a couple of those quilts, or at least the beginnings. The top one uses 6" squares. I had some fun blocks to pair up with those big pinwheels. 
These pinwheels are really big. Each of those pinwheel blocks measures 16". I had to get creative with the layout to make it look way more complicated than it is. I will add some borders and they will be ready for ...

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I'm still working on my granny cardigan. 
This is one of those projects that is easy to work on.
The rows are taking longer each time. It great to see it coming together. 

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I bought myself a silly amount of yarn a couple weeks ago. This is Big Twist. You can find it a Joann Fabrics. 
I decided to make a granny cardigan. 
This is how it is going. So far, so good. 

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