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I saw this recipe on Instagram. I read through it and just had to give it a try. It was one of those so easy it’s too good to be true recipes. Something about melting butter in a cast iron pan and then dumping the batter over the top of the butter sounded so weird …

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Hand quilting a wool eighteenth century quilt in a flat frame.

Kelli has been busy reading books. She was so great and put together a few blog posts for me. I love it because it gives me the night off. WHEW! The book she picked this time is The Mother by Anya Mora. Kelli writes:“Just finished this book—-and it was really good! Twisty until the end! …

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I thought I’d pop in and say hi! I’ve been getting lots of messages and cards. Thank you so much. Rather than update everyone individually I thought I would do one here. I’m feeling okay. I am still itchy. My mouth is still uncomfortable…my spirits are still good. Admittedly, I occasionally get a little whiney …

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Okay, I exaggerated, but it certainly does seem at times as though it’s that many! I’m making a new quilt, and one of the steps is to make 140 little 9-patch blocks that measure 3.5″ unfinished — and that’s for the throw sized version of this pattern. As you may be able to tell, I’m […]

Every so often questions and comments come from readers that I think others would like to hear my response to.  That’s when I feature them on the blog.  This is one of those days. Today’s questions are about a variety of things. The first question comes from the comment section:“I don’t cross stitch, but was given a …

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The Give It A Whirl Blog Hop is this week thanks to the lovely Carol at Just Let Me Quilt. We were challenged to use spinny things.   Pinwheels, Dresden Plates, whatever brought the motion, you know?

Well,  I knew I had the perfect to lurking around for this one. This was a project that started with one of my oldest UFO’s, the Dresden center.  This was my very first applique block from the 1980’s. Later I started adding borders,  but the quilt grew a bit longer than wide into a sort of extra long twin sized quilt.  Or ...

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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