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September 10, 2022
hole and candy from Making A Lather

I have all the blocks I need to make this rainbow project into a top. I have really enjoyed making this. I liked using my smallest pieces to make the string rectangles into something useful. By using the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. the colors are bright and happy. I have moved them to a box of their own and plan to take them with me to open sews for assembly.


I was one block short of having all the blocks I need for the candy quilt. I felt I needed a chocolate in there someplace.



This block has ...

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August 20, 2022
candy from Making A Lather

 I have orange cream candy ready for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. They look yummy. I think I am nearly done with these blocks. I still need a bit of licorice and chocolate. I have certainly enjoyed making these this year, and I had PLENTY of strings I needed to use. I am looking for a string project for next year or maybe 100.



This tiny little squash plant taking over the garden was a volunteer from outside the garden, and we weren't sure what the frankensquash would be. It looks to be a regular zucchini. We ...

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July 23, 2022
sweet tooth from Making A Lather

Every color of candy is my favorite after I make them. All the purple sweet tooth blocks are finished for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. I am thinking that I have too many rainbow scrap projects. I am struggling at the end of the month to get them all done. But, I really like them all. Maybe next year I will exercise a little more sense.



This is one of the planters by our back door. I planted the yarrow and the little pansy. The rest of what is growing are volunteers from last year. I didn't ...

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June 4, 2022
blue candy blocks from Making A Lather


I did get the blue candy blocks finished this week for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. This time, I had many more choices of scraps to build these blocks. I have more blue and red scraps than any other color. I was able to go to my Friday group and I did make some progress. It was good to sew again. I think I am ready to tackle blue this month.


I have been canning butter as ghee. While I was at goodwill, trying to dig up some pint canning jars, I started talking to another women and ...

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May 7, 2022
green sweet tooth blocks from Making A Lather

 I am happy to dig around in my green scraps for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy.  This week I made green crumb blocks and added HSTS to make my sweet tooth blocks. I found this quilt on sane crazy crumby quilt blog here. The crumb centers are 4 1/2 inches with 2 1/2 inch HSTS. So, the side pieces are 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches and the top and bottom are  pieces are 2 1/2 x 6 1/2. I think Jenny Doan did a you tube video.



And it was finally ...

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April 2, 2022
sweet tooth from Making A Lather

I have my candy blocks ready for April and the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. Angela dropped the hint for the color a little early, so, I quick made crumb blocks and tada.. candy. I have baggies of strings sorted by color for the year.




It looks like I have some cutting to do with my pink scrappy strips. Last year, I was a little overwhelmed with my rsc choices for projects. This year, I was minimal at the start. But, with each passing month, I am adding something new that catches my eye. I think I just really ...

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March 12, 2022
Sweet tooth candy blocks from Making A Lather

I woke up one morning, and, I wanted to make noodles. That was odd. Who wants to make noodles when you can open a bag from the store. The house was quiet, and, I cracked open a few eggs and started. It was a very sentimental time, and filled my heart with love for all the really great women who had taught me how to make noodles. I first thought of my Mother, who has been gone for 20 years. I could see her unrolling those long noodles and she talked about her Mother teaching her. It was an art ...

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February 7, 2022
5 quilts february 7 2022 from Making A Lather

  Covid has come to visit and I am not very perky. I think we are holding our own, but who knows.

My 5 quilts progress report.

1. Rainbow scrap challenge - color aqua/teal. I have candy made from crumbs and strings.



2. full stop quilt that Angela is doing for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy.- I have 2 rows finished



3. rhododendren mystery - hunter -  I haven't done anything on this project. I think I have some cutting I need to do for clue 6. I haven't looked.


4..  too many circles - the top is finished. I ...

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February 5, 2022
string candy from Making A Lather

We have had a winter snow storm that has been very beautiful.




I have cut for easy breezy, fish school, and the stashbuster 2022 in aqua/ teal for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. I can sit and do that.



what color is this one? I wish it could make up it's mind

I only had enough energy and aqua to make 4 blocks this month for my candy quilt.

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January 15, 2022
a sweet block from Making A Lather

I am so thrilled to finally move this project from the 'maybe someday' to the wip list. I have a few string/crumb blocks made over the years by color and enough strings to add to them this year. These pieces of candy are sugar free,, so I can have as many as I want.



I also cut red strips for my go fish leader/ender challenge. Each strip will make 6 hsts or 2 sets of fish.

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January 12, 2022
5 quilts Jan 10, 2022 from Making A Lather

My 5 quilts progress report.

1. rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy - color red -candy - All the string blocks are sewn, trimmed, pressed and ready to sew into blocks. I trimmed them to 4 1/2 inches



2. full stop quilt that Angela is doing for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy.- I made the letters for the purple row. I really like purple. That's it for letters. I hope to start making the rows now.


3. rhododendren mystery - hunter - After a count of finished hourglass blocks for the mystery, I was 60 short.


Back to cutting and ...

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January 8, 2022
red scraps and rsc from Making A Lather

I started sorting for the  rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy with 1 1/2 inch strips in red. I went through the entire gallon bag of strips and pulling any that were not at least 12 inches long. I had a nice little pile. I cut as many as I could into 1 1/2 inch squares for easy breezy blocks if there was 4 matching. If there was at least 3 inches left I put them together to make 4 patches, some will be used for blossom time and some will just be made into random 4 patches ...

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January 3, 2022
5 quilts january, 3, 2022 from Making A Lather

 My 5 quilts progress report.

1. Rainbow scrap challenge - color red -candy - I cut the background pieces for candy quilt


2. full stop quilt that Angela is doing for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy.- nothing new done

3. rhododendren mystery - hunter - 

I am still working my way through clue 4. Lots of cutting needed and chain piecing took forever.


I discovered that if I chain piece my qsts like this through the machine



They will be webbed together for an easy sew to get the hour glass. I missed about 1 in 10 - turning them the wrong way ...

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December 24, 2021
December Discoveries from From the Strawberry Patch...

'tis the season! It's been a busy few weeks around here; ones full of happy days, and lots of busy times and delightful  holiday related discoveries. I'll start with this struggling Christmas cactus. This plant belonged to my mother-in-law. It wasn't in the best shape when I brought it here to live after cleaning out her home over four years ago. I haven't done a thing to it, except for weekly

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December Discoveries from From the Strawberry Patch...

'tis the season! It's been a busy few weeks around here; ones full of happy days, and lots of busy times and delightful  holiday related discoveries. I'll start with this struggling Christmas cactus. This plant belonged to my mother-in-law. It wasn't in the best shape when I brought it here to live after cleaning out her home over four years ago. I haven't done a thing to it, except for weekly

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December 10, 2020
Two steps forward and oops - a stumble from Crazy Quilter on a Bike!

 Yep - another great day! I'm doing well at plowing my way through the list of things to do. What else is new - it's the story of my life. But if I had a "real" day job - I'd be doing the same thing! It's just that I'm the boss, so to speak! However, I'm governed by deadlines. 

No, the magazine quilt did NOT get quilted yesterday. Sigh... But it's on the long arm, and that's the first thing that gets done this morning once the girls go for their walk. 

My little stumble ...

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September 27, 2020
stash report: September 27, 2020 from Making A Lather

 I can't believe it is the end of September already. Besides having too much fabric, it's time to see what my stash report would be.

I was very fortunate to receive a gift of fabric from someone cleaning their closets. It was a magical bundle of fun.




Stash report  September 2020


Fabric Used this week: 32 yards - 

Fabric Used year to Date: 300.25 yards

Fabric Added this week: 31 yards  
Fabric Added Year to Date: 148.75 yards
net fabric: 151.5 yards used more than bought

I sewed at least 15 minutes per day 

This is ...

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February 7, 2020
Pin It Weekly #305 from Fleur de Lis Quilts and Accessories

This is a late PIW, and I apologize for that. I've been quilting, though! So, no pins from me this week. Here's what some followers are finding. Let's start with Marie Dunn, who has some pretty modern quilts pinned.

Don’t you just love how designers can be inspired by a variety of different sources, and then come up with a gorgeous quilt? We’ve been seeing a lot of quilts inspired by gemstones these days. From the 2017 QuiltCon best of show quilt (“Bling” by Katherine Jones) to MJ Kinman’s bourbon gemstone masterpieces, to the …


paper pieced birds


Check out Circajan's candy board! I couldn't resist. Now I'll be hungry for sweets ALL day. :)

100 Best Christmas Candy Recipes - Prudent Penny Pincher


And finally, Mary Gaytan-Ramirez has a board on wire angels. Aren't these sweet? 

How to Make a Wire Angel Ornament - Nativity Ornament Series

Andělka jarněnka - vícebarevná

Wire Angels diy-jewelry-Not sure that this is a beginner's level project but it never hurts to try it!

Andělíček Je z černého žíhaného drátu.  Velikost je cca 12x6cm.  Celková délkaa je cca 18 cm. Můžete ho pověsit kdekoliv ....   Drát je ošetřen proti korozi, ale ve vysoké vlhkosti může chytit patinu rzi.



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