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Working, working
Just wanted to share a quick picture of my current project. Mod Mosaic blocks, 12.5" square. This has to be gender neutral which is hard. I'm loving the way it's turning out though! I'm linking this...
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Untitled, a photo by emmac350 on Flickr.Top finally completed for baby Bryce, born a few weeks ago!
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Perspective and other such things
I haven't posted here for a while. It's simply become a habit not to. But I need to vent for a minute, and while this probably isn't the best way to encourage readers to stick with me (especially since...
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Is this my home?
I'm home. Home from my business trip...but it still feels a little like I'm not. What does home mean, really? After all, while I was on my business trip, home was my tent. My tent that I shared with 9...
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High Tech, Low Tech
I wish I could just write *insert witty opening line about not having posted in years here* and have one appear but, alas, life doesn't work that way. Instead, it moves on and before you've realized it...
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A Finish for a Very Special Girl
I am very pleased to announce a very special quilt finished for a very special little girl - my neice, who I called neice Quiche in my last post. I finally finished the quilt and got it sent off to...
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I Need a Bit of a Rant
I just went to my first quilt guild meeting ever last night (I'm back in the US and have a local quilt guild! Eeeee!) and we were making donation quilts, which was pretty fun and took some of the...
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Moving, Northern Lights, and Other Assorted Awesomeness
After finishing Niece Egg's quilt, I had two more quilts to work on pretty much immediately. This post will be about one of those. I found out that one of my friends, who we'll call M, was pregnant...
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A Short Update
I entered my first quilt show! I didn't place, which I pretty much expected, but I had 3 quilts in the show all with my name on them! Aaaahhhhh! The first quilt was Niece Quiche's Star Wars quilt. My...
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Work In Progress
My quilting time is pretty scarce these days but I have been doing what I can when I can (okay, not always...the internet is far too easy to get lost in). But I am making a lot of progress.Baby...
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A Finish, and SO MUCH FABRIC
I finished Baby R's quilt finally! Remind me to never do a quilt with this many pieces again...or with pieces that finish this small. Uggggggggggggg. Seriously.Overlook all of the missing points... The...
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Jade, Binding, and...Did I Buy More Fabric Again? [An unfinished post that I...
I finished and delivered a quilt! Now called the Jade quilt, this was the pink and green quilt I mentioned in my last post. I chose a split 9 patch design for the blocks. This quilt took me forever, as...
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More Catching Up...
Catching up is always a bear, but let's get into it anyways. I had three friends at church whose babies were due within...a month of each other? I thought it would be fun to see how far I could stretch...
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Catching up, Part 2: Oops, these are out of order!
My next door neighbor in 2017 had a grandson born in the spring of 2017. I made a scrappy string quilt for him. I let a random number generator decide color placement just to see how it would...
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Catching up with a nautical quilt!
When there's a nautical themed nursery...it's time to have some Fun With Flags. Especially when the baby's name is six letters. Nautical quilt ahoy! I drafted the signal flags to finish at 6" square. I...
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Catch-Up: Poppies!
"So, what's your nursery theme or color scheme?" I asked this mother, unsuspectingly."Pink, red, gray, and poppies," she said. I was a little surprised by how specific it was. Then I went shopping for...
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Catch-Up: More Strings!
A third baby with no nursery theme...colors it is! Scrappy strings are really just a fun and easy block to do. Do a bunch as leaders and enders and you can have a free quilt without too much time! I...
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Playing With Color (More Catching Up!)
I've made several Mod Mosaic quilts (back between 2010-2012), though I apparently only blogged about one of them as a WIP. Still, it's a super fun block to do with scraps. When my quilt guild put out a...
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Last Catch-Up...of 2018
I managed to squeak out one last finished quilt before things got really hectic (understatement of the century) and then we moved across the country. Here's the last one I finished in Texas:More...
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Plans for 2020!
Every year Shelly Paglai of Prairie Moon Quilts does "the final countdown" at the end of the year. The tasks are meant to get you into a more organized place before the new year. Organizing your sewing...
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Shelly over at Prairie Moon Ranch has issued this year's 350 Blocks Challenge...and I am going to participate. Will I make 350? Probably not. But I can at least try (and stop procrastinating on...
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2019: A Trio Of Little Girls
The title is misleading. I didn't really get a picture of the first of this trio finished...but it has been waiting for the recipient to get me a mailing address. It's hard when you try to make...
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Orchid, Brown, and Beige...
If you've looked at my blog for any length of time you've probably noticed that I am not good at doing controlled color schemes with my quilts. I can only think of a handful of quilts where I really...
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Final Finish of 2019: A Brother's Coordinated Quilt
If you may recall, I made a "Twig Cabin" quilt for my first son back in 2016-2017. I realize that I never posted a finished picture of it, so this is going to be a post combining both quilts. Twig's...
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My First Finish of 2020!
After being somewhat unhappy with my Trio of Random Sister's Choice quilts, I decided to use the rest of my 9 patches for something completely different. You'll be seeing several very similar quilts in...
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