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 Quilt top together and I even sewed the backing! I did not have enough of any one fabric for borders that’s what happens with fat quarters ...

  Hubby was off on a fishing trip…..I had uninterrupted time in my sewing room.  First I made the appliqué for a cousin sewing lots of stops...

 This was so easy........it’s been together for a week........Its a Buggy Barn pattern from the book Certifiably Crazy.  Stack the fabrics c...

New project on the wall.  I pulled out all my hand dyed fabrics from almost 20 years ago with thoughts of another quilt.  I sorted the brigh...

The bottom two quilts have more Erin fabrics than the top two.  The bottom two are more fun to look at and how I wish I still had ...

 My first finished quilt of 2018 what have I been doing all year ??? Two years ago I started out finishing a quilt every couple we...

  Its snowing again.  Sometimes the flakes seems to just float in no particular hurry to the ground and other times they are rush...

I went for a walk yesterday because the sky was blue and the sun was shining like spring has some catching up to do.  We had 8 inches of h...

We have had four gray days in a row here I needed to work on something with cheerier colors and something that didn't take a lot of th...

Recent finish on the top quilt.  These quilts really do have nice square corners but no matter what I do or how  I stand I cannot s...

 I love sewing these Buggy Barn Sailboats they are so quick and so fun to pick the fabrics and always a surprise to see how the fabric...

Machine quilting is so much fun when the tension is right.  I just sewed waves across the lower part of the block then  meander...

Somedays I sit down to do something and everything goes wrong.  Machine quilting on this was one of those things.  I could not get the t...

After almost 3 months of no sewing I was able to spend some much needed time in my sewing room. My Elna machine just groaned when I p...

 Yesterday I couldn't find the Buggy Barn book Certifiably Crazy because I put it in a safe spot. I looked in 4 safe spots before I ...

sold on etsy gift to great nephew Two quilts I no longer have but sailboats always speak to me of summer. Th...