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The first Block B is done for my 

Scrappy Irish Chain Quilt

These are big 18.5" blocks unfinished. 

Your can see the lovely leafy details on my creamy white tone on tone background fabric in this photo. 

This free Scrappy Irish Chain pattern may be downloaded in the link below: 

Scrappy Irish Chain ~ Free Pattern by Jessie Fincham

I love the quilting design in Jessie's quilt.

As expected, the busy scrappyness of the Block A is calmed and tamed considerably by the juxtaposition of Block B with its restful white space ...

I hate when I wake up and realize the answer to a problem, and it's too late to fix it! I was doing machine embroidery last night and couldn't get the third hooping to match up. It was close but not exact, but I went ahead anyway. This morning, I'm pretty sure I know what happened. I do not have any way to verify that, but it irks me that I didn't think of it last night. 

The good news is that if I didn't tell you there was an issue, you'll never know ...

There were 2 total finishes in January, one at the beginning of the month and the other at the end. The neutral color batik quilt on the left is 50" x 66".  On the right is Scrappy Friendship Star 47" x 59".

 The Endeavourer's theme this month is portrait. As usual it took me ages to come up with something for the theme!

After ruling out all ideas that involved any kind of artwork, I finally decided that my portrait would be a mugshot and the criminal portrayed would be that well known scourge of the seaside and renowned chip and ice-cream thief - Mr C Gull!

 As with all mugshots there is a face-on and side view of the criminal :) The seagulls are appliqued felt, with button eyes and embroidery detail. 

I used the reverse side of this beige/white striped ...

We started in Piccadilly Circus and headed up Regent Street. We stopped at Uniqlo and I bought a red cardigan before we had a look at the Liberty windows. A little disappointed but fun.

On the Bee Happy panel -  Are outlining and echoing the flowers and leaves -  In the top left corner -  Using YELLOW thread - so that it blends in with the background -   I like the "texture" -  But I'm still having trouble "hitting the mark" -  So I think it will look better if I stitch it a little "looser" - The top left corner sort of "flows" diagonally - So some of my problem is the "

Oh my, it’s cold. This is the third day of temps in the 30’s. I know it gets colder other places, but I live in South Texas, for heaven’s sake. I’m on the couch right now, and the dogs are all over me. Im pretty sure they’re cold too—and they have fur coats! 

The APQS UFO number for February was drawn over the weekend.

With another inside day it is amazing at how few pieces got pieced at the machine.  I guess I was moving slow – a little progress on the Snails Trail – I don’t know if the name will stay that or if I will change it but for now.  I did get a few pieces […]

Here is my first completed project with them!

This applique is my response to the charming fabric that was used in the three blocks that I'd acquired.

This would have made a cushion cover, but I remembered that I had a fleece on hand, so I thought that I'd extend it into a lap ...

I thought I would give you all an update on my SOS regarding Community quilts.  You might remember about two weeks ago I wrote and told you all that was overloaded with quilt tops.  I needed some help to find some new finishers.  You can read that HERE if you missed it.  I ended up …

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Bonjour à toutes, Quiltmania nous offre un nouveau Quilt Along, quilt mystère sur leur blog. cette année c’est Diane D. Knott de Butterflythreads qui nous invite dans son univers. Ce quilt s’appelle Hometown, difficile à traduire, “ma ville d’origine”… Voici ma première étape. J’ai choisi de le faire en tissu classique pour faire baisser mon …

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Five Pinwheels Quilt Block Tutorial

 We're headed into a new month, and I love that the Monthly Color Challenge gives me something to look forward to.

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Hello Friends, I hope you have had a good start to your week! Thank you SO MUCH for sewing along with me this past weekend! I hope to be able to host another #crockpotweekendsewalong soon. I am thinking the next one will be for a binding weekend, as I have a couple of quilts that need to be bound!

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT at the end of my weekend sewalong blog post:

P&B Textiles ...

Another week has gone by. Nothing too exciting from me, however feeling a bit productive this week and have got a few things done. My tasks from last week were:

- to start working on a new pattern, i.e. get off the computer and do some sewing!✅

- to pin and baste another of those charity quilts and maybe even get it quilted. - partially done

Also finished my handout for the upcoming wholeclass workshop which was not on the list. ✅✅

The week was spent finishing the cute little giraffe charity quilt, i.e. attaching the binding and the label

So very ...

This morning I headed to moms. We had to be in Olympia at St. Pete's hospital for her tests. It was a 1 pm appointment but they told her 12:30 pm. So, we were early. That is the worst place to try and find a parking lot. We went to the back of the hospital and parked in the garage. That meant we needed to walk around to the front of the hospital. Mom did pretty good but we did have to stop on the way to the ER room - which is the only entrance anyone can use ...

A primeira coleção deste ano, é livremente inspirada no traje típico dos pescadores da Nazaré. Feitos de padrões axadrezados com cores garridas, as camisas de pescador são um dos trajes tradicionais portugueses que resistiram à passagem do tempo e ainda hoje são usados com orgulho. A universalidade do padrão de xadrez no vestuário pode ser […]