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I have a tentative plan for how I’ll be showing up moving forward.

I don’t want to disappear altogether, and I love hearing from all of you, so I don’t want to just say goodbye and drop off the ol’ interweb. But as you know if you’ve been following along for awhile (and some of you have — thanks so much!), I’m trying to downsize, simplify, and spend my time doing the things I love most about this business, and dropping the rest. In other words, I’m trying to make future retirement not sound so ...

I’ve been AWOL for a time as I worked on an online class. I have a terrible time deciding how I want to do the quilting on my quilts, so I’ve just finished a design class that may help me overcome that. It was a class from Lisa Calle, from whom I’ve had other classes in […]

I don’t have all of my plants in the ground. You might remember I was debating about how much I would plant this year. My back, hip, and right leg aren’t always cooperating with me. So…do I plant…do I not? That was my big debate. I decided that I thought I could plant the impatiens …

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 I finally remembered doing the alphabet letters, it was a gal who made birds and as soon as I searched for that, her blog showed up. I used to follow her but some of my favorites got lost and I couldn’t remember them all. I do remember she said they were liberated letters. And to make them all red except for your first name letter!  Love it when memories return!  I apparently didn’t have enough of background fabric left over so I improvised…it’s a mashup…the pinwheels are leftovers from trimming HSTs and I have enough ...

Improv Logcabin Blocks with Sashing Quilt top finish!

Red and White Snowball Blocks with Sawtooth Borders getting binding sewn on.

Hello Quilt Friends! 

It's a cool sunny/cloudy spring day, lovely. A couple of days ago we had a day of heavy rain with hail, yes, hail in May.

I've finished piecing together my Improv Logcabin Blocks with Sashing, 22" x 26". The Logcabin blocks are 3" square, the sashing is 1" wide. I taped the top to the window for a stained glass effect for the photo.

Today I'm sewing the binding onto my Red and ...

If your scrap bin is overflowing with teeny-tiny pieces you aren’t sure what to do with, crumb quilting is about to be your new favorite project. This technique is all about piecing together those little “crumbs” of fabric to create beautifully scrappy layouts. It is not only a fantastic way to stretch your fabric budget, but it also adds a unique pop of personality to your sewing.

By chain-sewing your smallest leftovers, you build entirely new, larger pieces of fabric that are ready to be used for crumb blocks, accent pieces, or substantial projects. If you want to speed ...

Ever made a bag that just won’t stand up the way you want it to? That’s usually where box corners come in. This simple sewing technique is what gives bags, pouches, and bins that flat bottom so they actually hold their shape and work the way they should.

The good news is there’s more than one way to do it—and none of them are hard. In this tutorial, you’ll learn 3 easy methods for sewing box corners, so you can pick the one that makes the most sense for how you like to sew. Once ...

Good morning, my friends. It looks like our weather might decide to warm up again. We're expecting warmer temperatures day by day, and we have a plan to plant our vegetable garden later this week. It's going to be a small garden this year. I'm sprouting zucchini and pickling cucumbers in the greenhouse at the moment. We'll also plant corn and green beans. You might remember our last garden when the critters bit the green beans off at ground level, killing every single plant. We have an idea about how to thwart those little gnawing bastards ...

Good morning, my friends. It looks like our weather might decide to warm up again. We're expecting warmer temperatures day by day, and we have a plan to plant our vegetable garden later this week. It's going to be a small garden this year. I'm sprouting zucchini and pickling cucumbers in the greenhouse at the moment. We'll also plant corn and green beans. You might remember our last garden when the critters bit the green beans off at ground level, killing every single plant. We have an idea about how to thwart those little gnawing bastards ...

Warm on Friday, warmer on Saturday.   Clockwise: blue-eyed grass, skunk cabbage in full leaf, golden Alexander, field horsetail, star of Bethlehem (a garden escapee, very aggressive).   

It was much cooler on Sunday and I took a nap instead of a walk. 

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Several months ago I made string X blocks into a flimsy and added a border.  I didn't like the border but it was the only fabric on hand that sort of worked and that I had in enough quantity.  I put the flimsy in the box and hoped I'd like the border better eventually.  It still didn ...

 Hello Everyone,

I've been good about posting on FG and Instagram, but not as good posting on my blog, the diary of my life.  Here's all of the happenings at Sew'n Wild Oaks over the past couple of weeks.

My sister is currently working on the binding for her Christmas Ribbons quilt which she made with Evelyn's Hope Chest fabric by Carrie Quinn for Marcus Fabrics. I'm having a sale in my Etsy shop for the digital download of Christmas Ribbons HERE.

My sewing room mojo was a bit sparse this last weekend.   I ended up reading most of Sunday afternoon. But I did finally make it up to the sewing room for a couple of hours before dinner. 

Other than the 2025 Guild BOM, the Bonnie Hunter Lupine and Laughter Mystery  is the only quilt started last year or for that matter this year, that's not a finished quilt top.  I've been working on what Bonnie calls the alternate blocks.  

Six blocks finished over the last couple of weeks. What looks like black is actually a very dark purple ...

The past couple of days have been spent on my sewing machine creating surfaces, paper and cloth as a base for hand embroidery.

The paper ones are much needed at the moment as I'm currently working on a few more of these.

Hand embroidery on these pieces is the next stage.

There will be lots of bullion and French knots along with buttonhole stitch edges and vintage fabric snippets. 

       

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Should I say "be careful what you wish for?" We went from winter to high summer overnight! Yesterday was a blistering hot day with lots of sun! What a change, and I think we have heat today and tomorrow, and then back to mid-teens! That's OK -- it's nice to walk around in shorts and sweat!

It was an interesting day, and for some reason, I decided it was important to spend time gardening, which was NOT on my to-do list. But that's OK. It's stuff that needed to be done. 

First, let me give you an ...

My husband is deep into a couple of home improvement projects since he is 98% retired.  Did you catch my eye roll?  Anyway, contractors are scheduled to arrive this morning to begin the deck replacement.  I'm not ready for the noise and the mess, and I'm positive our little colony of feral cats are not ready for the noise. I'm moving their food dishes to the front porch. The biggest worry is moving the "cat house" to the porch - carefully because the little grey kitty had her kittens inside the canvas house on Sunday morning. We don ...

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