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December 23, 2024
Merry Christmas 2024! from Stof genoeg

My annual Christmas quilt design for the blog! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! XXX Annika Continue reading

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December 15, 2024
Knitted Star Christmas Quilt x3 from Sew French

When I saw this design I knew I needed it in my life!!! And then I decided I needed to make it for all three of our children as Christmas quilt. I have made each of them many quilts over … Continue reading

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November 13, 2024
Midweek: a finish from With Strings Attached

 It's been a quiet week so far.  Perhaps I'm simmering down after the disappointment of the election results, resigned to the announcements about the change in government and all the analyses of what happened.   

 S had dentist appointments Monday and Tuesday which went well (whew).  Last evening my P.E.O. chapter met by Zoom.  The program was given by a church choir director (a chapter sister is in that choir) who is also a middle school music teacher. She talked about requiems, the funeral masses set to music.   I had no idea there was so much to ...

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November 10, 2024
Nativity. PaperPiecing pattern by Peggy Aare from Wisonsin Quilting

Paper Piecing quilt pattern by Peggy Aare $9.27 Click for PDF pattern download
Email Peggy Aare at:
PaperPiecingHeartland@gmail.com

This Nativity pattern is 27″ wide x by 33″ high and uses 3 reds, 5 blues, 5 browns and one near-white. The Paypal link lets you use any charge card for payment. You’ll immediately be given a download link for files to store on your computer. Ideally print the pattern pages (which are already mirrored) on sheets of freezer paper to be taped together. There are general instructions, specific sequence instructions, a color chart, and some single sheets ...

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October 14, 2024
Crimson Tweed is Done, Done, DONE! from Alamosa Quilter

 As most Sue Spargo projects are, this one took quite a while. I've been working on this for about four years. The hand quilting alone took a little over two years, but I really only got to work on it on Thursdays during the hand sewing group at my shop.

I included lots of close up shots of the finished quilt below. 

Crimson Tweed Finished

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The pattern is called Crimson Tweed by Sue Spargo. The pattern book is discontinued and I have already sold my personal copy of the pattern to a customer who wanted it. An internet search might turn up ...

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October 2, 2024
Good Tidings & Austin from Sew Preeti Quilts

I have two new quilts to share.

Austin was published in Make Modern #60.

Good Tidings was published in Annie's Christmas Pattern Book.

Good Tidings


Both quilts were made using Island Batik Fabrics collection Peppermint Sprinkles. 



Peppermint Sprinkles is a beautiful collection - perfect for Holiday sewing. I love that it has elements of the season such as reindeer and snowflakes but it isn't so Christmassy that the quilt/decor becomes outdated by January 1.  It has year round appeal.

That was my thought process as I designed Good Tidings in EQ8.  A fellow quilter/blogger once said that ...

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July 15, 2024
Weekly update: flowers, fun (and games), (estate sale) find, and a finish from With Strings Attached

 We enjoyed both wild and cultivated flowers this weekend.

The library is the starting point for the Illinois Dunesland Garden Club annual tour. 


This year's sites included the Garden of Faith at Memorial UMC (our church).  People can rent raised garden plots -- 20 this year with room to develop more -- for vegetables and flowers.  

Other gardens on view were in Winthrop Harbor, Carol Beach, and Pleasant Prairie.  



The quirky sculptures were fun!



We've had good rainfall this season and the wildflowers are abundant. 

Illinois Beach/Hosah Park (89 degrees on Sunday). Clockwise from left: chokecherry, mullein, nodding onion ...

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July 9, 2024
Weekly update: back to sewing with stash report and OMG from With Strings Attached

 

It's a wildflower wonderland here in northeasternmost Illinois.  We went to Ethel's Woods and Pine Dunes.

Compass plant, false white indigo, monada/bee balm, mountain mint. butterfly weed, show tick trefoil, rattlesnake master, pickerelweed, Culver's root.



Bumblebee on a purple coneflower and a flock of little yellow butterflies.






  The Lake County Symphony Orchestra performed on Thursday evening.   The tuba solo (Strauss's Happy Farmer) was fun. 

  Though we missed the fireworks at the park in Zion the neighborhood was a-poppin' with firecrackers until nearly midnight.  The smell of the powder was heavy the next morning.  


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May 31, 2024
Last Christmas from Wendy's Quilts and More

I finished my Trip Around the World quilt just in time to enter it into Capital Quilters recent exhibition.  


I've called it Last Christmas because I've always loved Wham, and each December I pump this song out  regularly.


I used Edyta Sitar's pattern and method and I found it very good.  If I decide to make another Trip Around the World quilt I would certainly follow her method again.   




You can read my first blog post about this quilt here. I made this quilt over the Christmas break and found all these fabrics in my stash. I ...

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January 5, 2024
A Trip Around the World from Wendy's Quilts and More

Happy New Year everyone. 

No sooner had I dropped my mum and dad at the airport on 27 December than I started getting inspired on Instagram.  Often I will start a Christmas themed cross stitch between Christmas and New Year, but this year I started a Christmas quilt and I had the whole top pieced in just seven days.  



I was inspired by this photo on Instagram:


But I used the brighter colours from this Christmas gift bag:




The photo I liked was by Edyta Sitar so I used her Laundry Basket Quilts PDF pattern for a Trip Around the ...

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December 6, 2023
To do Tuesday #51 from The Quilt Yarn

My list was smallish for this week


- try to finish 6 cat blocks and cut out the sashing ready to go.✅
- sew on the hanging sleeve to my background filler project❌
- take some photos of my Christmas quilt. I think I will put that in my Etsy shop for sale even though it is a bit late now...well, there's always next year.✅

The last bit of the cat quilt went quicker as I could see the end. I chain pieced along saying the names of the individual cats as I was sewing along so I would not get ...

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November 20, 2023
Starting A New Quilt ~ 364 HST's! from Podunk Pretties

 What better way to end the year than with a new Christmas quilt for my bed.  The 364 half square triangles are the hardest part of this quilt so might as well make them first.


This weekend I made 224 HST's using the Magic 8 method.  If you've never heard of this method, a google search should be all you need.  Seems like everyone has made a tutorial for this one, even me many years ago.


The HST's were made a tad bigger than needed so they could be trimmed to the perfect size.


To speed up ...

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October 8, 2023
Christmas Connections from Moda Lissa

Nothing better than a new Christmas magazine arriving in October, This gives me plenty of time to drool over the designs and actually get one made before the holidays. I think I am going to tackle the cover quilt from Lisa Bongean and Alysha Haran. The quilt is made using 2 1/2″ jelly roll strips so it should be fast to jump on in. Fingers crossed.

the 3 images shown here are Used with permission from American Patchwork & Quilting® magazine.
©2023 Meredith Operations Corporation. All rights reserved.

The magazine has lots of great quilts/projects including projects from Wendy ...

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July 21, 2023
Oh! Christmas Tree from Wendy's Quilts and More

Yes, it's true - I've escaped New Zealand and like many other Kiwis and Aussies I'm travelling in Europe right now.  In fact by the time you read this I think I'll be in Amsterdam.  You can follow my travels on Instagram - @wendysquiltsandmore  or Facebook - Wendy Welsh - if you're interested.  

But I know a lot of you look forward to reading a blog post from me each week, and linking up to or following the Peacock Party links, so I've prepared five weeks of blog posts to keep you covered while I'm away.  Each ...

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June 19, 2023
Weekly update: enjoying the sunshine, a finish, and a start from With Strings Attached

 


I'm happy to report that my husband was released from the hospital Friday afternoon.  The tests were negative, which is the right outcome.   We are very grateful to our good friends who took time out of their busy day to drive me into Chicago to get him (and bring him back).  He's re-oriented and all is well.

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We had two good excursions, to Grant Woods Forest Preserve on Saturday and Chain O' Lakes State Park on Sunday.  (Left photo:  Fox River is on the horizon at Chain O' Lakes.) 


Wildflower medley:  spiderwort, yarrow, sorrel.  Cinquefoil, bird's foot ...

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June 16, 2023
Friday Finish: Two Old UFOs from Patchwork Sampler Blog

I am still clearing out the basket of old UFOs and now I am two projects closer to finishing. Right now it is hard to find time to quilt, so it is nice to finish a couple of things and feel somewhat productive. 

 

The newer (haha!) project is another from the weird Blitzen fabric line by Basic Grey. This fabric came out in 2012 so it has celebrated a few birthdays. I hope I don’t come across any more UFOs with this fabric. I probably had a fat quarter bundle and should have separated the fabrics into a whimsical ...

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December 27, 2022
A Quiet Week from From My Carolina Home

Did you have a wonderful holiday? We had a lovely day, with a prime rib dinner. This year I made fresh Brussels Sprouts for the first time. I looked online for the best method to decrease the bitterness, and found that cutting them in half and charring the cut side would do that. So, I prepared the sprouts by cutting off the bottoms, removing the outer leaves, then cutting them in half.

Toss with a bit of oil (I used a garlic oil that My Sweet Babboo gave me for Christmas) and put cut-side down in a pan. Cook on ...

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December 26, 2022
Merry Christmas To Me from Wedding Dress Blue

I am not a big seasonal decorator, but I do love Christmas. And for a while I had considered a Christmas quilt.

When I saw the Fall 2022 Scrappy Mystery at QuiltingGail, it was the answer. I made mine a little larger, but the idea remains the same.

And I added a smaller complementary quilt for the back of my husband’s comfy chair.

It is based on this tutorial.

Both were built entirely with fabric on hand. The last stitches were put in the binding about 3pm Christmas Eve. Still plenty of time to enjoy them this year before ...

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December 24, 2022
Merry Christmas 2022 from Stof genoeg

Merry Christmas! I have 3 Inklingoable Christmas quilt designs for you, with 5-pointed stars, Ribbon Flowers and Dresden Plates. XXX Annika Continue reading

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December 23, 2022
2022 Christmas Countdown - Oh! Christmas Tree from Wendy's Quilts and More

 Day 23 of my Christmas Countdown and it's my "Oh! Christmas Tree" quilt designed by Wendy Williams.  



I love that this quilt represent Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere.  We still like the snowy images on Christmas cards, but we know Christmas is the start of our summer holidays and it's going to be hot.  Many people have a BBQ for Christmas lunch and eat it outside, before taking a dip in the pool (if they're lucky enough to have a pool in their back yard).  



I loved choosing all the bright colours for this quilt, and then ...

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