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Hello, friends, and happy Saturday! We were out of town last weekend (which was wonderful), but I do love Saturdays at home, too! I have all of the plans to have a relaxing weekend along with getting a few things checked off of my list. I hope you’ll enjoy today’s Saturday Seven 186: Lifestyle & […]

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I spent a lot of time in the basement yesterday putting things away and pressing scraps...no sewing was done.

First I sorted the Bali Pops™ - Mulberry - Into pairs of strips - For another 16-patch - Pattern by Wanda S. Hanson -  Exuberant Color - You can find her EXCELLENT tutorial - HERE -    I had so much fun sewing the last one -  I thought I would make another -  The blocks go together quickly -  And the size of the top is perfect - 64" x 80" - for a lap-size throw -  Wide enough to snuggle under -

After a long, dry spell, I have been able to spend some time in my sewing room. I figure that's worthy of a quick blog post.

Around Memorial Day the whole family was a little down.  We were all looking back and remembering where we were two years ago.  If you’ve been reading the blog, you know that Memorial Day of 2019 is when we found out Kramer, my husband, only had weeks to live.  He ended up dying on June 2nd, so in all honesty, we had from Tuesday to Sunday in the wee hours of the morning.

What has been comforting to us all is seeing pictures.  Sadly, most of the pictures we have of Kramer are from when he was sick.  Here ...

 Well, my brother, Kelly and I went over to Don and Julita's for homemade split pea soup and to hang their quilt!!  The soup was delish and the hanging went well.  

Don did say the wiggly bottom bothered him so we are going to put a small dowel through the bottom binding so it lays straight!!

The frames that I’ve ordered have all been ordered from Custom Frames. Denise found them first and told me about them. She’s ordered a good many frames from them and been happy with them. Today while in town, we had an extra few minutes waiting for Chad, Nicole and Addie to get Addie’s shoes at...

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 I've been seeing so many ideas and beautiful talented bloggers making red, white and blue things and figured I'd start making these scrap busting 6 1/2" star blocks (unfinished) which could be used for all sorts of projects. 

I'll include some no waste cutting instructions below.

I got my triangle quilt loaded onto the quilting machine.  You can see a peak at the backing which is white stars on blue fleece.  I decided to forgo batting since it's a summer quilt.

I'm using this free pantograph, Starlets, that I saw on another blog (thank ...

Basic pieced 9P blocks, mixed together and I like the results.

The second design reminds me of a game board, but I have no idea what the rules might be!

I offered to make quilts for refugee families thinking with Covid and the crazy amount of paperwork to get them here, I had lots of time. Not. One family is coming in July, a mom and three daughters. The yellow one is done. The blue on is on the longarm, pictured here. The red top is finished and next in line. The black one is still in my mind. I do have the fabric though. It seems best if they are all done before these gals arrive, but I'm not sure it will happen. I do have another life ...

The heat index has been right at 100, just above and just below all afternoon. 5:10 p.m. and it’s 99 (heat index) now. It is miserable. This has been a busy few days for us, especially since we rarely leave the house but we went to Branson on Wednesday and met Marlene, met Julie and...

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I’m doing a little series of posts that feature old blog posts.  I have been going back and looking at them.  It’s been fun.  I started blogging in June of 2009…WOW.  Over ten years.  I’m so glad I’ve kept the blog as a diary of sorts…today I’m telling you about projects I finished in June of 2011.

My yo-yo table runner was in terrible shape.  I made this back in the 90’s.  By 2011 it needed a little updo.  I had to take a yo-yo apart to get the size and remake ...

Well Hello! I'm back after an unexpected hiatus that included a couple of weeks camping in Texas, taking care of my mom after a fall and surgery, three secret sewing projects, a 40-60-80 girls' birthday trip, and a family wedding. Whew! Where did the time go? I'm glad to be back to share one of those secret sewing projects that has been gifted so now I can share!

Last year, our quilt guild chose to participate in Border Creek Station's 2020 Stash Buster Challenge. I decided to pull all of my pastel floral prints from my stash ...

Welcome to Saturday Sparks 427!Starting off today's party with a sneak peak of a much needed creative break.Life takes us in many different directions and we adjust to the ebb and flow, but there are times we find ourselves needing to veer off course in order to bring back balance.In recent days, such was the case for me.We've had one too many irons in the fire lately and I was in need of a

 Another very old project... I will confess that I used to be a swap addict! The swap blocks were from before the high speed internet since they were made in 2006!

The idea for this swap was to prepare some blocks with 3 raw edge hearts applique on top of each other. The hearts have an indent on the side and in the middle to be sliced up. This is a variation on the "bull eye pattern".

I have been making different styles of hanging towels for the oven door.