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Divide & Dash Quilt AlongWelcome to Week 1 of the Divide & Dash Quilt Along! This is where it all begins—turning beautiful fabric into the foundation of a quilt that blends traditional charm with a fresh, modern layout.This week, we’re focusing on cutting and assembling the core units that will bring your first blocks to life. I’ve designed this pattern to be approachable and

Good morning, my friends. I'm just home from a nice breakfast with Sue. Aside from that, not much has happened this morning. There hasn't even been time for slow-stitching. As I write, I'm waiting for Mike to drink a cup of coffee, and then we'll head off to the grocery store. We're eating dinner out tonight, but the afternoon will be my own. No plans except doing whatever I want to do.

So let's back up to yesterday, shall we? It was a luxuriously slow day. Not having to sandwich any more quilts put ...

Good morning, my friends. I'm just home from a nice breakfast with Sue. Aside from that, not much has happened this morning. There hasn't even been time for slow-stitching. As I write, I'm waiting for Mike to drink a cup of coffee, and then we'll head off to the grocery store. We're eating dinner out tonight, but the afternoon will be my own. No plans except doing whatever I want to do.

So let's back up to yesterday, shall we? It was a luxuriously slow day. Not having to sandwich any more quilts put ...

Hard to believe it is already May. I completely missed that yesterday was "May the 4th Be With You" day.  Today is Cinco de Mayo, so happy holiday if you are of Mexican heritage. Mother's Day is this weekend (I have no idea what to get my mother).  

Download this free row quilt pattern with horses, get the fabrics, and delight a cowboy or cowgirl with this equestrian handmade gift!

Saddle Up Quilt – click here to download the pattern

I designed the Saddle Up Quilt for the American Spirit collection by Kathleen Hill for Studioe Fabrics. It measures 50” x 62-1/4” and the blocks finish at 6″, 12″, and 12-1/4″. The prints feature lassos, denim patches, galloping horses, plaid, cowboy hats, and other equestrian-related icons.

The denim print is used both on the narrow border and binding, framing the quilt center and giving it a ...

 I am excited to share with you an EQ8 Giveaway!

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Ready for framing. I finished the Semiquincentennial Eagle yesterday. After being off by 1 stitch on the right side of the eagle and spending quite a bit of time trying to find the mistake, I was able to move forward and complete the project. It was a joy to stitch! If you would like to stitch the pattern, you can order it from everythingcrossstitch.com .

I stitched my project on 28 ct Light Taupe Lugana over 2 fabric threads.  I used Kreinik #002 #4 Braid for the metallic.  It took a little more than 1 1/2 spools.  Kreinik is ...

 Back into the 80's today. Spring is so unpredictable.

Two lousy pix of my pairs glasses. I look awful inthe bottom pic, but oh well.

Saturday a tooth popped off of my partial dentures. I took them to the dentist yesterday, and the lab can hopefully just glue it back on, but they need it a full day, plus pick up and delivery. So I'm without the dentures til Wednesday afternoon, which is ...

Welcome to my stop on the Quilt Block Mania Blog Hop. Each of the designers participating in the hop are sharing a block pattern inspired by this month’s theme, which is Art.

This is my seventh year participating in QBM, and I hope you’ve enjoyed my free block pattern each month! If you’ve missed any, the patterns for previous months are available in my shop.

To learn how to get my free pattern, see How to Get the Free Block at the end of this post.

When I considered the Art theme, I ...

I'm so glad to hear that I am not alone in getting books. And Sharon mentioned something extremely important yesterday. So many books are no longer relevant because technology has changed, and the information in the books is so outdated that no one wants it. The only thing to do is to put it in the recycling bin. And that is hard. I have a few things around here that should go in the recycling bin, but I'm not there yet, either. 

However, I spent quite a bit of time in Studio B yesterday, and I learned a ...

Our Western North Carolina Quilters Guild biannual show is coming up on May 15-16 in Flat Rock at Bonclarken Conference Center in the Youth Activities Building. This is a wonderful show with lots of quilting inspiration and creativity on display with wonderful vendors, our quilt raffle, used bookstore, raffle baskets, special exhibits and a gift shop. This year the raffle baskets are themed with not just sewing, but cooking and gardening among others. The quilting one has fabrics, notions, hotel stay for Paducah and gift certificates with the total worth over $1000!! There will be a food truck on site ...

It has Hobbs 80/20 batting in it and was longarm quilted by Robin Diaz.

I used a lot of 16 patch blocks from the orphan block box as the border around the center.

It is 63" x 70".

 A couple of days sewing with friends brings you these quilt photos:

Brenna's Dresdon top coming together. ..You have seen some progress on mine in older posts.

Hard Day Stuff...

My siblings and I got together in early April to make decisions about Dad's treasures. It went well.  While I do have brothers, their inheritance is different from ours. Dad gave the girls his collections of things, and they are many. Dad loved auctions where he spent his later ...

Last week I went to physical therapy. I started again after I had a little incident a few weeks ago. There was a ball on the front lawn when I went to get the mail. I decided to kick it to the garage door, then I would pick it up and put it in the …

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When I was growing up, I loved breaking into a fresh package of colored pencils. There is just something perfect about all

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Yesterday, mom turned 91. So, I went to Safeway this morning and picked up a cake for her. I thought there would be more at our meeting, but as it turned out, there was only three of us. Georgie, mom and myself. 

I took my beading. I also took some fabric for mom and Georgie to work with. They almost have one of the panel quilts done. Since mom had to go get her teeth cleaned at 11 am, Georgie and I chatted. I was able to get part of the next ornament done. 

I finished three of them there ...

are somewhat estranged at the moment. Studio is a bit messy, showing signs of work and a lack of orderliness on my part and a great desire to start quilting Split Complementerity Redo. The delay in starting the free-motion quilting has to do with my schedule including some “need to be attentive to” things. One… Continue reading The Quilt Studio and I