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 Sometimes I get carried away cutting pieces for quilts and sometimes I need to make two quilts. First baby was born just over a week ago he...

Those seam allowances can really shrink a quilt and to really be able to see it on the grid I pinned on the design wall.  The quilt top is s...

  Blissful sewing……..this is the first piecing I have done since last year! It felt good and sounded good after oiling the machine.  The hum...

  I started cutting strips for the borders and kept getting distracted because I wasn’t thrilled with the plan. It was so boring with limite...

A little time in the sewing room was like therapy for a somewhat chaotic life. Indecision on the borders was the hold up on this quilt, that...

   The blocks are finished!! Those fabrics and colors are so cheerful a little spring in the sewing room. Some days it feels like spring oth...

 After days of cutting all these parts I found a muscle in my back I didn’t know I used for cutting with the rotary cutter. It’s been a long...

The design wall is blooming and every single piece of this quilt will be on the design wall before anything is stitched. Every time I look a...

Its spring on my design wall outside is a different story. This looks like a quilt that every single piece is going on the design wall befor...

I didn’t get as much done as I wanted to this week, the weather was too nice, I went for a walk every day the sun was shining, the wind was ...

  Finally something on the design wall. I started this last September and then life happens lots of trips to see the little girls and they r...

 Over the weekend I put a few of these log cabin blocks on the design wall to audition fabrics for corner triangles. I’m going with the brig...

  I sat down to do some sewing after weeks of not sewing, the roar of the machine was such a comfort. A couple days later I sat down to sew ...

  Get to work on the second graduation quilt.  The request was for a green quilt but I did not want it to look like a Christmas quilt or a S...

Something new on the design wall,  more kaleidoscope blocks but a different block construction. I could have done bat wing construction but ...

  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...

  Tuesday always feel like Monday when we spend a weekend at the camper because we always drive home on Monday.  The company was great, the ...

The first bunch of blocks are partially sewn, then I sewed the black and white blocks for the second quilt and thought what if I put all the...

More *** astriks, splats, splotches, explosions, and fireworks! The black and white prints are so much more interesting than the solid black...

Yesterday I went to my sewing room and just looked at the mess for a while.  The day before that I looked at the mess then knit a few ro...