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Hello my friends! I hope you have had a good start to your week! It’s hard to believe we are inching towards the end of Jan. Time really does fly by too quickly.

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Before I go any further, I thought I would note a few important dates for you to share with your quilting friends. Quilting is always more fun with friends!

IMPORTANT DATES

Jan 21 – Blooming Scrappy Starts – click here for details.

Jan 23 – Hear Ye, Hear Ye (Liberty Bell) QAL check-in #4- click here for details.

Jan 28 – Silver Lake Fundraising QAL for the VA Quilt Museum ...

I kept thinking it was Sunday for the past 3 days, and now here it is Monday finally. And a bitter cold Monday morning around here.

 In my last post I was rescuing homeless samples, adding more embellishment and joining them to create larger pieces. The pieces here today live in the same cabinet. The needlecase and pin pillow were created in class. The other two pieces here are stitched papers. Altered with machine stitch before hand embroidery was added. They are also homeless samples I guess. I'm

       

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Two weeks of January gone and two weeks left in the month.  It hasn't been a bad start to the year.  My hardest commitment to stick to is moving some of my quilt tops into finished quilts, with me doing the quilting on a number of them.  I stuck with that plan this week and managed to assemble row 3 of Kate's Choice.  

There are 6 rows in this project, so I'm half way done with row assembly.  It will be a challenge this week to switch to quilting as late night sew is on Thursday, not ...

I have no resistance when it comes to taking on new projects! I was catching up Saturday on blog reading, and I saw several people’s posts about their center block for the Stay At Home Round Robin. There were some really cool centers! I went to the main site, and there was still time to join in. I got busy, and this is what I came up with:

I seem to be stuck on stars lately. I’ve had a picture of this pinned to my Pinterest board for a while, but it doesn’t have any measurements or ...

They are so much fun, you can’t make just one.

So, I made 27. I pulled an assortment of cool color 2-1/2″ squares and warm color 2-1/2″ squares from my precut scraps bin. The black and white borders came from the black print scraps bin. (Yes, I have a lot of bins).

Ta-dah, before I knew it there were blocks ready to mail off to  Many Hands and Many Hearts. You still have time to join in. They are accepting blocks until the end of February.

This will be our third retreat with Hawkstone Park Hotel in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
There are only a few places remaining at this point because people booked it before I got round to making a little advert, which, in itself, is a good advert!
Here's the information, it's pretty much the same format as all other retreats I've organised.

Arriving Monday 30th March from 10.30am
Set up your sewing space, little bit of chatter and start your fun.
(Room Check in after 2pm)
Lunch @ 12.30pm.
3 course dinner @ at 6pm

Tuesday 31^st & Wednesday 1^{st ...}

 Welcome back for block 11, In Flight

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I did not post about Colour My World yesterday, nor will I do it today. I'll aim for tomorrow. Today, it's all about the finishes! 

I have hosted the UFO Club for over five years, and in that time, things have gotten done not only for me but for ...

It's been cold here in the south, but this is the only snow we have at our house :-)  

Yesterday I did some cutting out for a pattern that I am designing. I pulled out my 18" design board to keep the pieces in some sort of orderly fashion. I made these design boards according to Lori Holt's instructions here. I ask my local framer to cut the mount board into 18" squares for a small cost. I also use premade bias tape for speed.  I don't however use a hot glue gun as I haven't mastered using one and I end up with big blobs of glue everywhere. Have you made any of these design ...

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These 2 little mats have been sitting in my studio waiting for the stitching around the edge for at least 6 months.  All it takes is changing to a topstitching needle and filling a bobbin with the heavier thread.  I kept avoiding doing that.  Finally last night I got them done.  They have one layer of batting and one layer of a stiff heavier interfacing (not as heavy as Peltex).

They are close to 8.5" x 11", one a tiny bit larger than the other.

When I posted the list of projects I hoped to work on this year, I had a lot of interest in these 2 quilts and these aren't even good picturesThey're currently at Jackie's waiting to be quilted. I was processing my scraps last year and I liked the way these incorporated my low volume prints.Several readers contacted me, asking about the patterns. I've replied back, but I thought I'd share the

I am determined to keep my quilting projects moving along. That led me to be up early on Monday morning at the sewing machine. Last week I had cut out some of the sashing and cornerstone pieces for my Emerald City quilt. Monday morning I sewed all of the nine patches that are needed for …

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