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 Only 8 more curved blocks to go.  I could have sewn them all yesterday but we were out of bananas along with everything else so had to...

I spent hours on Monday trimming the log cabin blocks and then arranging and rearranging them on the wall.  Yesterday I didn't look at...

  The pattern for this was in Linda Brannock's book Miss Jump's Quilt Album,  she called it Summer Garden aka Summer ...

All the curved piecing is finished now to trim the blocks and do a little rearranging. I will study the prints that are the eye catchers a...

Sewing quarter curve blocks is easier than setting in a sleeve or sewing a collar on a blouse. After sewing all the wedges into quarter...

The quilt top is sewn together. No big rush to get it done now that it is April except that I wanted to clear the design wall for the next...

I love the way this is coming together but there is so much trimming to do with each block. Trim to 9 1/2 inches then sew two together a...

Last week I posted a teaser of cutting parts, I'm still cutting parts but had to sew some together to see what the blocks look like. I...

  I stitched the last stitches of the label last night onto Afterimage.  I finished DD baby quilt the eve of her birth, yesterda...

I'm 2/3's done machine quilting. Last night I thought I must be 3/4's done, its hard to tell when is it rumpled under th...

 See we have sun today and temps are in the double digits! We had sun yesterday too but much colder and I wasn't home all day so I cou...

The borders are on and it has been layered and pinned ready to machine quilt. I could do it the easy way and just do a wavy line up the tr...

The Winding Ways parts are all sewn together. The quilt has made a quarter turn clockwise from the initial arrangement of block parts. Nex...

Hump Day half of my After Image Winding Ways quilt is sewn together. It is amazing what I can get done if I stay home and put the knitting...

 Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day with little wind and I tried to sew a couple blocks and do this tutorial but wouldn't you know I se...