Midweek: stars aligned
from With Strings Attached
And tidy up this mess.
Linking up with Wednesday Wait Loss
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May 27, 2026
And tidy up this mess.
Quilts of Valor projects
from My Sewing Room
I do enjoy the process of cutting the parts and pieces for a new quilting project, so kitting up blocks and whole projects is something I actually like to do. Sunday afternoon I went through our QOV bins to gather things for a couple of kits for new quilts.
First I went through the various block sets to see what we have to work with. This year's free block for the block drive on the QOV website is Echo. We had a good size collection of the 10" Echo blocks, and only needed 22 to frame this panel. Voila ...
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GO! Cutter
from Happy Cottage Quilter
I made 5" blocks from fabric I had on hand.
I like the way this one turned out so I went on and made second one.
By cutting a 5 1/2" strip, there is very little waste.
Another one in the works!
Deciding on order...................
from Exuberant Color
I did 4 layouts of order of strips for the Trip Around the World with William Morris fabric.
This is the first one.
It was hard to get all of the strips in the photo and not have them crooked.
This is the second one.
The third one.
And this was the original layout with the folded fabrics lined up before I cut strips and sewed sections of strata.
The fourth one.
As I type this late at night, I'm favoring one and four. As soon as I make a decision, I can start sewing the 4 sections together ...
read moreTwisted rope runner
from Stitching Matters
I searched the internet for the name of this technique and saw that it goes by different names. For the previous one, I used “twisted pole” and opted to give this one a different name.
The previous one was also done in an edge-to-edge pattern, while this one is custom-quilted and, as small as it is, kept me busy a couple of days.
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After the Rain
from Lovin' Life At The End Of The Dirt Road
Monday night we went to bed with the windows cracked open, listening to the sound of a soft rain playing across the tin roof. It's one of my favorite sounds.And if you're lucky enough to be in the high desert mountains when it rains, the smell will intoxicate you. It's one of my favorite smells.I woke early Tuesday morning...3:00...too early, yet perfect timing. I could hear another
read moreFlying Things
from Plum Quilts
I'd already been thinking about making a moth (originally I'd hoped to enter an Insect challenge that was a European quilting challenge, but I wasn't able to work on it in time), so this challenge gave me the chance to resurrect the idea!
I wanted to make something that wasn't a clothes moth (bane of my life - munching carpets and fabrics, grrr!) - but thought that it would be entertaining to make it mostly from clothes. Although I used a ... read more
Saturday: Garden Day
from Jo's Country Junction
Rick was at my house on Saturday too. He determined it was going to be garden day. After working on getting the tiller going the day before, he tried it the next morning, and on his first pull, it started. Karl offered to till the garden on Monday so we put the tiller aside and …
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read more25 Must Sew Scrappy Strip Quilt Patterns
from Patchwork Posse
Ready to put those fabric scraps to work? If you’ve got a bin overflowing with leftovers, you’re in the right place!
Scrappy strip quilting is such a fun way to turn random fabric strips into one-of-a-kind quilts. By sewing together different lengths and widths, you create a colorful new fabric that can be sliced into blocks or kept as a bold, textured design. It’s a perfect technique whether you’re just starting out or you’ve been sewing for years, giving you total freedom to play with color and clear out your stash at the same time ...
read moreBusy Day Getting Kits Made
from Quilting My Way
Today, I woke and tried to play games. I needed to get the laundry going.
Once the laundry was started, I headed downstairs to get the batting and backing for 4 of the quilt tops. Patrick came down with me, and we worked on getting 7 quilt kits ready for the QOV quilts. Patrick wanted to do all the fabrics for the kits, and I let him. He's a pain when we disagree with how it's done, so it's just easier to let him pick the colors. Once in a while I would pull another fabric out ...
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Little House Sampler Quilt Sew Along ~ Prairie Rose - Block #9
from Melva Loves Scraps
We have nearly reached the end of the journey with Laura and the Little House Sampler Quilt. The writing of book The First Four Years is in a very different style - in the third person. It was an unfinished piece found amongst other papers and documents in the late 1940s. After Laura's death in 1957 it sat hidden away until after Rose's passing when it found its way to Harper & Row.
The scene from prologue tells of how the night was sweet with the strong, dewy fragrance of the wild prairie roses that grew in masses.
Laura was ...
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A Busy Friday…
from Jo's Country Junction
On Thursday night, Rick called me to tell me that he had a surprise for me and he was taking Friday off!! He wanted to come over and get a jump start on the weekend tasks so we could actually enjoy the weekend. I said that it sounded great, but I had physical therapy on …
read morePerfect Panel Quilt Back
from Brown Bird Designs Quilts
If you’ve been following along on my quilty journey, you know that I love doing something extra special on my quilt backs. When I saw the panel from the Mystic Fable fabric line by Alexia Abegg for Ruby Star Society, I just knew I had to do something with it on the back of my Moon Spell quilt. I thought today would be the perfect opportunity to show you how I made it with a tutorial for creating the Perfect Panel Quilt Back.
This panel is absolutely beautiful. It has a vintage appliqué feel and so many charming details ...
read moreSouth Island Holiday - Final Days
from Romany Quilting
Just the final few days to go, the holiday was coming to an end. After a wonderful two days in Dunedin, the weather changed and we traveled to Oamaru in wet and miserable conditions. We stopped out of town to collect two local guides, who hopped aboard our coach, suitably attired in Victorian clothes, ready to tell us all about their hometown. Oamaru, known as "The white stone city" boasts a wonderful collection of historic commercial buildings built with local white Oamarua stone. It was discovered that the limestone could be sawn after it was quarried, and hardens when exposed ...
read moreSummer Blessings
from Knitting Quilter
I finished this month's free cross stitch from Primrose Cottage. I think it's close to 4" X 6". It's so nice that they offer these free cross stitch patterns on a monthly basis. This one was quick and took me about a week to stitch.
I've been searching through my stash and I think I'm going to use this fabric to finish the cross stitch piece into a pillow. I still have a few more bins to look through but I think this fabric would look nice.
I'm making 16 cat's cradle blocks ...
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Summer Blessings
from The Knitting Quilter
I finished this month's free cross stitch from Primrose Cottage. I think it's close to 4" X 6". It's so nice that they offer these free cross stitch patterns on a monthly basis. This one was quick and took me about a week to stitch.
I've been searching through my stash and I think I'm going to use this fabric to finish the cross stitch piece into a pillow. I still have a few more bins to look through but I think this fabric would look nice.
I'm making 16 cat's cradle blocks ...
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Sew & Tell - 5/25/26
from Melva Loves Scraps
I remember the times of having a (LARGE) home garden and the bounty that it produced. Those times are long in the past since we moved to Colorado and the growing season is so short and overnight temps cool. But I do have fond memories and am ...
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Are You Still There?
from From the Strawberry Patch...
In my last post, well over a month ago(!) regarding breathing new life into these quilts I asked you to stay tuned... and then I, seemingly, evaporated! Nothing terrible has happened, we've been away for a bit but life gets busy and this blog has been back-burnered for weeks. Not that I hadn't thought about posting, I had written many drafts; but only in my mind.Last week our DIL came over, we
read moreAre You Still There?
from From the Strawberry Patch...
In my last post, well over a month ago(!) regarding breathing new life into these quilts I asked you to stay tuned... and then I, seemingly, evaporated! Nothing terrible has happened, we've been away for a bit but life gets busy and this blog has been back-burnered for weeks. Not that I hadn't thought about posting, I had written many drafts; but only in my mind.Last week our DIL came over, we
read moreLucy Boston Blocks and Zoom
from Sew'n Wild Oaks Quilting Blog
Hello Everyone,
I made a commitment to myself to work on my Lucy Boston blocks. I started making Lucy blocks in 2015 and I have about 20 finished.
This is the block I was working on last night while watching TV with Mr. Joe. I made the decision to applique the blocks onto a 12-1/2" fabric square. I will put them together on point, possibly with a sashing. The blocks are just too pretty to sit in a bin the rest of their life and the rest of mine. I'm teaching this for a guild workshop later on ...
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