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 Divide & Dash Quilt Along – Week 5Row 2 ConstructionWelcome back to the Divide & Dash Quilt Along! This week we begin constructing Row 2 by assembling Zones 4 and 5. You’ll combine large and small Churn Dash blocks with our Flying Geese units to continue building the modern layout of the quilt top. This stage is especially exciting because the quilt really starts taking shape

 Looking for some wall to hang it!  Now what shall I do next….

Crazy Christmas cactus blooming in May!

 

It was another week of little stitching. Between the family being here and my time with Rick, cross stitch doesn’t happen as much as it previously did. I’m okay with that. People always come before hobbies. I worked on my Garden Club Series by Blackbird Designs. Here is where I was when you last saw …

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I quilted two more tops. I just put the blue orphan blocks together. That might be a record for how quickly it was quilted after finishing the top. I made about half the blocks over the years. The others were donations made to our club. The pile of orphan blocks is getting smaller. You wouldnt know I enjoy working with the orphans for as long as some of them have been there. 

The other was a top of dd's  that she made for donation just last year. She'll take it to the Community  Center  next week and ask ...

This year, I participated once again in Humble Quilts 2026 Mini Quilt Exchange.  This link will take you to show all the quilts that were received in the exchange.

Merry in Mount Vernon, Washington sent me this gorgeous mini quilt!  What a delight to receive this.  Not only that, but it arrived on our 49th wedding anniversary.  What a way to start the day.

 The Magpies met in the late 1990's on the Usenet newsgroup Rec.Crafts.Textiles.Quilting. We spun off from RCTQ so we could chatter (like magpies) off-topic.  We've had in-person meetups large and small.  

Earlier this year Diane offered to host a Magpie meetup in Victoria, BC, in conjunction with the Victoria Quilters' Guild biennial show May 9-10.  Five of us took her up on the offer:  Stacey (MO), Phebe (WA), Janet (PA), Debs (also in Victoria), and me.  

Left: dame's rocket has become invasive.  Top:  balsam groundsel or balsam ragwort; fleabane.   Center:  shagbark hickory, chokecherry.  Bottom: strawberry, peppergrass. 

I used FQs from the Victoria show to add some variety for the bright colors.  

Blocks are 12" so 60"x 72".

I sewed all the cut-away triangles and trimmed them to 1-1/2".  (Eight per block times 30 blocks is a lot of HSTs.) 

If you’re anything like me, you can never have enough quick and quirky projects—especially when they’re as snack-friendly as a mug rug!

I’m always hunting for fresh ideas, so I’ve rounded up 30 of the cutest free mug rug patterns just for you. Whether you need a last-minute gift or a little “desk candy” for your coffee table, these are the perfect bite-sized projects. They’re small enough to finish in a single afternoon, yet they still give you plenty of room to play with bold colors and fun quilting techniques.

Mug rugs are also ...

Good morning, my friends. It's a new day. We had a week of summer last week, and now we're back to a rainy spring. It's been cloudy and cool all week. The sun is shining this morning, but we're still expecting some rain later today. Next week is supposed to be better. We're setting our sites on the latter part of the week for planting the vegetable garden.

In case it wasn't obvious from yesterday's post, we were both exhausted after two days of medical appointments for Mike. As for Mike, he's ...

Good morning, my friends. It's a new day. We had a week of summer last week, and now we're back to a rainy spring. It's been cloudy and cool all week. The sun is shining this morning, but we're still expecting some rain later today. Next week is supposed to be better. We're setting our sites on the latter part of the week for planting the vegetable garden.

In case it wasn't obvious from yesterday's post, we were both exhausted after two days of medical appointments for Mike. As for Mike, he's ...

I made myself work on Must-Do projects before allowing myself to start another Diabolical Jane, but the DJ design process is calling me. So after I checked off a Must-Do item and made progress on three others, I pulled fabrics and started playing again. 

 We were happy to go to Eddie's nursing program pinning ceremony.

 And we were all delighted that he got one of only 3 awards! I had never heard of the Daisy award, but it's a BFD. When the professor described the award, we were all kind of zoning out, then he announced Eddie's name and we all snapped to attention. Jules kind of squealed, and we all applauded. He later got a text from one of his professors saying she'd nominated him. 

After the festivaties the ...

 We had a couple of finishes yesterday at our Prayers and Squares group. A few weeks ago, Marg started adding to the panel with the cats. It had already been quilted, but needed to be bigger in order for us to be able to gift it to someone as a lap quilt. Using the quilt as you go method, Marg added the pieced borders and then did the binding yesterday. Another quilt that was gifted to us, already layered and the quilting started was this gorgeous autumn themed sampler. Janet has been working on the quilting for the past month ...

I’ve Always Known Creativity Gives Me Energy

For as long as I can remember, creating has always made me feel more alive. And ever since I have started this blog and quilt, I have always been inspired and super excited when I think about what I get to do. About the time I get to quilt. 

Even during busy seasons, creativity brought me back to myself. What changed recently wasn’t the realization that quilting gives me energy. I’ve always known that. What changed is that somewhere along the way, I stopped prioritizing it.

Let’s chat about ...

Welcome back for week 13 of the Sewcialites 3 Quilt Along as we celebrate our amazing quilting community! Each week, one of the 25 oh-sew-talented designers we’ve teamed up with is bringing you a new block pattern. This week, we’re excited to introduce the relaxing Back Porch Block by Joanna Figueroa!

Back Porch Block by Joanna Figueroa

This week’s designer is Joanna Figueroa, the creative force behind Fig Tree & Co. for Moda Fabrics. This week, she brought us the intermediate-level Back Porch Block. With five square-in-a-square units to make, this block will be much more ...

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 Well Hello again!  

Very little actual quilting going on in my life at this point.  About a year ago, I decided to tale my long arm frame down as I simply wasn't quilting.  I did, however, put my Tin Lizzy machine into a sit down desk and converted it.  I have not practiced enough to get 'good' and I guess I really did get spoiled having a frame set up.  For several years I did sit down quilting on my domestic machine and was pretty good at simple free motion meander.  I have, I think, 11 quilts 'in waiting ...

In addition to hand embroidery I'm also partial to a little bit of patchwork.

If you follow this link  and scroll down there are some 30ish posts where I have used patchwork in several different ways. 

Because I use this process regularly it's always handy to have a stash and the means to add to that stash.

These are things I pick up when I'm in need of a half hour of not thinking, just keeping my hands busy and my brain empty.

There are fabric pieces I've cut ready to add to templates, individual covered ...