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I realize I haven't really been here in a while and I also realize I'm crazy late posting my list for Q1 of the 2019 FAL (because the link-up closed days ago!), but I thought I'd put it up here anyways. Maybe it's going to help me get back to the machine and to the blog!

I haven't been away from the blog or the machine because something bad happened or anything - just work and exhaustion! I just have not been able to find the time or the energy to sew and because I haven ...

I haven't really done anything to show. But, I have been working a little on each project.
I have the rows together for Christmas snowflake. I will be teaching this in March to my guild, and I need to have something to show the end of the month.

I am so incredibly chuffed with how my Pollinate quilt is coming along. It’s definitely one of those projects where I had a spark of inspiration as to how I wanted the quilt to look, but have had my fingers crossed the whole time I’ve been stitching, hoping that it’s going to turn out like what I had planned. And it is!

I’m still loving my choice to mix up spots of fussy cutting with just simply slicing and dicing the fabric. It’s saved me so much time, but also means that there are pockets ...

I am plodding incredibly slowly through my Cherish quilt. And my deadline keeps getting pushed further and further back, to the point where I HAVE to get it done by my daughter’s birthday in March or I run the risk that she’ll have outgrown it! Thankfully, she still likes seeing peeks of it, and she doesn’t care if it’s a full bed-sized quilt worth of EPP or not, she just wants a mummy quilt. So, the plan is to do a couple more fully-pieced hexies, and then possibly some that are half-pieced (i.e. the outer ...

I have quite the temperamental relationship with EPP, but I think we’re starting to come to terms with each other. It turns out that I enjoy EPP when I’m not a sewing machine churning out the same block over and over, which is why my Cherish quilt is taking for.ev.er. But when there’s small blocks, and larger blocks, and varied sections to piece together? I quite enjoy it! So when Kitty Wilkin aka Night Quilter invited me to sew her Pollinate quilt, I was on board with it. Because you should see what you get ...

Phew, I knew that the past few months would be intensely busy, but I didn’t quite foresee that I wouldn’t even be able to bind one simple quilt that I was aiming to finish in March! I did at least finish the quilting on my Milky Way Sampler quilt, and the binding was made… and then used for another project, ha, oops! I had an aim of finishing 12 UFOs and WIPs over the course of 2018, and that goal is still achievable! It just won’t have happened one per month as expected. AND THAT’S OK ...

Whew, that title is a tongue twister! All of which to say is that my local modern quilt guild is hosting a mystery medallion challenge this year, and I’m making mine as a mini quilt. Our Swaps and Challenges coordinator has come up with a list of 7 mystery prompts that she gives out every 4-6 weeks. We then complete at least two borders on our medallion quilts with whatever method and technique we like to interpret the given prompt. It’s been a lot of fun so far!

For my medallion quilt, I decided a few things:

1. I ...

I’d say that “eagle eyes may have noticed that I haven’t shared any update on my Milky Way Sampler quilt”… but clearly I place way too much faith in how closely you keep up to date on what I’m working on, haha! That or the guilt is weighing heavily… That’s more likely, actually.

The truth of the matter is that March and April have been kicking my butt, as will May and June to be frank, with deadlines and school holidays and public holidays and pupil free days from school (today… ahead of Anzac Day tomorrow ...

birch trees
Today is the rainbow scrap challenge at Soscrappy. And the color is green.
I found 8 - 12 inch pieces of green in my scrap drawer for birch trees. 2 light 4 medium and 2 dark. I really enjoy sewing these. I can get all crazy with the rotary cutter. I have several sets of strings made ahead, and I can just cut them into strips when I am ready. I am keeping with 1 1/2 inches and 2 inch slices so that the leftovers will fit each other to build additional strip sets.

WARNING! This episode of Hobbies Up To Here is unfiltered, barely edited, and very, very real. My mom and I sat down after numerous failed attempts to record an episode and what we created is hilarious and very all-over-the-place. We jumped from topic to topic, occasionally forget what we were talking about, and we even … Continue reading This Episode Has No Title Episode #86