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The colors of this quilt are like the faded colors of summer flowers and memories. Just a simple double 9 patch and my favorite free motion ...

 It seems like it has taken a long time to get very little done. Slow going on the machine quilting, just the border left I think a feather ...

  I had all these squares on the wall before the little trip with DD then when I glanced at it when I got home I really did not like the dar...

I was looking though my little bags of leftovers from previous quilts because sometimes my stash is overwhelming and intimidating. Does that...

  This quilt has been whispering finish me......finish me........sew I finally did, a little bit at a time between piecing other quilts or m...

  Another one done!!  Just simple free motion machine quilting from point to point.  The backing fabric is a piece of hand dyed fabric that ...

 Two steps yesterday, the 9 patches and the side triangles on the pinwheels. It was hot again but I’m not complaining the downstairs was coo...

An afternoon in the sewing room……..all my 4 patches are sewn. Next to cut all the 3 1/2 squares to make it a 9 patch. Just one little step a...

The start of another quilt from my little bags of quilt seeds leftovers from previous quilts .   I take out the parts then reach for fabrics...

  A finish last week.  Now to start something new from the stash.  --Ann--

 Busy day yesterday I added the border to this graduation quilt then I basted two quilts, today I put my foot on the pedal and machine quilt...

The next graduation quilt...... this one for niece, she likes blue, but she is not going to the school that has the beautiful blue and yello...

  I chose the easy way of quilting another quilt with my favorite meandering concentric teardrops and feathers, my plain vanilla quilting, i...

  The easy one is done.  I just quilted from point to point on the pinwheels and setting triangles and a diagonal line through the 9 patch a...

  Our snow melted and then the weather got warm, sit on the deck and read warm, change into shorts and enjoy the sun warm, take son's do...

  And all from the stash.  I saw this at  One Sister Designs  last summer.  Last summer doesn't that seem like a long time ago!?! Its ju...

Some days I just have to finish something, its been basted for months and half quilted for weeks, doesn't that ...