What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

Lori sent me an email while I was in the hospital. I’m finally just now getting to putting it together into a blog post. Lori writes:“Hi Jo,I have received three donation quilt tops from Adele in Utah. Adele always sends with backings and binding which I appreciate so much, THANK YOU Adele.   As you may …

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Easter Egg Hunt Design

Pieced Background

Kelli has been listening to a lot of audiobooks lately. She has some favorite authors and I’m finding that one of them is Lisa Jewell. Her latest selection is None of this is True. Kelli writes:“This was amazing!  I feel like I haven’t had a good book in a while that has completely pulled the rug …

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You might remember last week I left you with a “No Fun until the the Work is Done” challenge. I needed to clean my sewing room and encouraged any of you who wanted to join me. I tackled mine early in the week because being I had time off, I wanted to sew later in …

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Last year, I made my first quilt from my husband’s shirts as a PQ challenge and I had hoped to do the second one this week.  However,  life and sick kitties interfered.  So, last night,  I took some of the tiniest shirt scraps and made a little log cabin Christmas ornament. 

For now,  it’s hanging on my bulletin board but I think I’ll make one to go with each quilt.

Happy quilting,

Beth

P.S. Both Winnie and Gizmo are doing OK now.

A long time ago when our kids were all little and I likely still had one in diapers, I did a big splurge for me at the time. I was in the grocery store and they were selling church cookbooks from a local church. I bought one. This one… The cookbook is likely one of …

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Lucky Shamrocks Quilt EQ8 Tutorial

I have a fun story for you today and it comes from Karin….she writes: “Jo, you have THE MOST incredible, generous, thoughtful, and TALENTED blog reader ever!  You may recall, my husband and I “adopted” a 92 years young lady from our local assisted living center back at Christmas time.  One of the gifts we …

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It’s a parade courtesy of Ray today. He has a finished quilt and mail to share!! Ray writes: This top is from an anonymous donor. Many thanks to the creator as the top is so wonderful. I love the way it just winds its way around a center strip to get bigger and bigger. Wonderful …

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On January 15 Husband came inside after running the snowblower and said that he thought we might need to make an appointment with a cardiologist. He hadn’t been feeling well lately–tired and such–and we had attributed it to fatigue and stress. However, his father had his first heart attack at 40. Five heart attacks and a massive stroke later, he was dead 10 days before his 65th birthday.

I looked up a phone number. Husband called. After telling his story, the person on the phone said he should hold, and he was transferred. A woman introducing herself ...

Cross-stitching hasn’t happened here much for me this week. I have gone to bed early to get to early morning appointments for my cancer treatment. In the evenings I’ve had lots of phone calls and have been trying to get things done around here in case everything goes well and I can be treated which …

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Date:  Wednesday 6 March, 2024

Location:  via Zoom

Time: 6:45 for 7 p.m.

Watch for your Zoom Invitation!

Our guest this month is Peter Byrne from Toronto

“Behind the Seams”     Peterbquilts.com

Community Quilts Workshop at Stitch by Stitch

Date: 12 March 2024

Time is still the same, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Come for the day, or any portion you can – many hands make light work! Bring your lunch, and please wear your guild name tag during the workshop!

Please remember that we need placemats for Meals on Wheels.  They can be dropped off ...

This was the week… It was my week to find out if the oral chemo and diet were working so I could be treated with Radioactive Iodine. If you’re new here- I have thyroid cancer and have since 2015. Mine is resistant to Radioactive Iodine which is the only way to treat it so I …

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On Saturday our daughter Kayla called and asked if I was up for a visit…ALWAYS! So I started scrambling to think of something I could make that I could eat and they could eat. Hmm. I called our daughter Kalissa to let her know and to say if she wasn’t working, maybe they wanted to …

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I need to stop & write more frequently. I begin and end a project and need to document it but, I don’t take the time. Just last week I began another baby quilt for my best friend’s first grandchild. And I’m thinking about what to make for a niece that’s expecting later this year. So, […]

This week’s prompt was the hourglass…block, shape or other interpretation.   This was an easy one for me. I love hourglass blocks.   The accuquilt makes it so fast and easy to cut the 1/4-square triangles I need for the blocks. 

I had a need for a doll quilt to gift to a new big sister.  I decided to go with colors that matched the baby quilt.   I used the Accuquilt to cut a fast bunch of triangles. They went together so quickly!  I shrunk down the quilting design I used on the baby quilt, too.   I’m loving ...