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November 12, 2024
Sewing, Stamping, and the Fiber Fair from From My Carolina Home

Saturday, the Fiber Fair was held at Beginnings Quilt Shop and we set up a large booth space with quilts, quilted table toppers and runners, embroidered towels, and small items. The spectacular quilt from Pam B was on display with a placard stating that proceeds would be sent to Interfaith Assistance Ministry. Unfortunately, it did not sell. So, I am in the process of identifying a way to get it sold or raffled for the benefit of hurricane victims.

I sold a few things, but the wine inspired runners and placemats are all still available. If you are interested let ...

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November 10, 2024
Retreat Report from The Cozy Quilter

 I had a very productive weekend at the guild retreat last weekend.  It was glorious to have three full days to sew--meals provided and no dishes to do!  I added binding to two quilts that are gifts so I can't show those yet, but they are both hand stitched now and ready to gift.  I quilted the table runner I showed last week that will be for sale at our church bazaar next weekend and added the binding this week when I got home. I hope someone will like it enough to purchase it! I also worked on three ...

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November 9, 2024
Table Topper and Playing with Weaving from Quilting & Learning

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Table Scraps Challenge - light & dark brown from Quilting & Learning

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November 4, 2024
Scraps, Embroidery and Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

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October 26, 2024
Moving Right Along from The Cozy Quilter

This has been a productive week in the sewing department!  I finished quilting the potato chip quilt I made for the local hospice.  I used the cut offs from the backing to make the binding, remembering after I had machine stitched it to the front of the quilt that it needed to be machine stitched down, not hand stitched as I usually do.  Oops! This is because the quilts for the hospice will be washed and dried by machine often and the binding will stay on better if machine stitched.  I did not want to un-sew all of the binding ...

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October 20, 2024
Getting Back to Normal from The Cozy Quilter


I have been reacquainting myself with my sewing machine over the past few days.  I decided to get going on quilting the potato chip quilt top I made for our new hospice (opening in the Spring of 2025).  First I quilted two lines in the sashing to get everything stabilized and ready for quilting the blocks. I also added a row of stitching around the entire quilt the width of the walking foot into the beige border and then a 1/8th of an inch from the edge of the border to keep it flat.  I hummed and hawed over ...

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September 15, 2024
Pin Basting and More Placemats from The Cozy Quilter

I added the binding to the placemats I made last week for Meals on Wheels.  Now, I have six completed placemats and I hope to make 12 for this project of the Oxford Quilter's Guild.  




This week, I started four more placemats and I have fabric pulled for a couple more.  I need to piece some more batting scraps to quilt the rest of them and pick out binding fabrics. Sorry, no picture of the 4th one. 



I finished off the last few stitches in the blue quadrant this week and started on the border of the green section ...

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September 14, 2024
Placemats for Meals on Wheels from The Cozy Quilter

 Once again, the Oxford Quilt Guild is making placemats for Meals on Wheels recipients for distribution at Christmas.  They are due at our December meeting but I decided to get going on mine right away and get them done!  I dug into my fabric stash to see what I had--so many possibilities!  We are to make one side Wintery and the other side to be used for the rest of the year. So far, I have put together and quilted six placemats--the binding will go on this week. 





I found a few orphan blocks that I can use to make ...

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August 2, 2024
Table Scraps and Quilting with Rulers from Quilting & Learning

Hi and welcome! I've finished my July Table Scraps Challenge and took out my quilting rulers to see what I could do. It was interesting and productive

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April 9, 2024
March Table Scraps Challenge finish and April's OMG from Quilting & Learning

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April 2, 2024
Celebrating 12 Years of Blogging from Quilting & Learning

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March 24, 2024
Scrappy Play on Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

February 6, 2024
Green Improv Placemat for the January Table Scraps Challenge from Quilting & Learning

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January 22, 2024
Confused on Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

Welcome to week 565 of Free Motion Mavericks. I managed to totally forget about having to post last night or even this morning! I hope that you got to see my Project Quilting 15.1 - Bird House. If not, you can check it out in Related links below.

Playing with scraps


Last week I played with green scraps. I managed to piece together a green placemat for hubby. I think that it'll look good! This is for the Table Scraps Challenge, hosted by the Joyful Quilter. It's only due at the end of the month so that's ...

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December 5, 2023
Weekly update: holiday celebrations, small finishes, and OMG December + reading from With Strings Attached

 

The social whirl is underway!  

The GFWC-IL District 10 luncheon was on Wednesday.  We played Santa bingo.   I won $41 in the split-the-pot raffle.   

There was a Christmas tree trivia quiz.  The average artificial tree is used for 6 years (and is in the landfill forever).....Christmas trees are grown in all 50 states....Calvin Coolidge began the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in 1923.



Friday evening we enjoyed dinner with Rotary friends prior to the Carthage College Christmas Festival


Familiar carols and other old and new songs, with splendid choral and instrumental music.  





Saturday was the AAUW Waukegan Area Branch ...

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October 16, 2023
Autumn Jubilee Turkey Talk Placemats from From My Carolina Home

When I saw the fabulous turkey prints in the Benartex Harvest Festival line, my mind immediately went to fussy cutting the turkeys. I knew I wanted a project to showcase those turkeys, along with the feather prints. Placemats for the Autumn table that would work all the way to Thanksgiving seemed like a good plan.

I began with my 6-1/2-inch square ruler to figure out which turkeys I could get in their entirety with the half-yard of fabric I had.

I made a gaggle of flying geese from the dark feather print so I could set the turkeys on ...

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September 9, 2023
Scrappy Yellow Placemat on Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

Welcome to week 446 of Free Motion Mavericks. I published this a little early so that I can make the September 6th deadline for the Joyful Quilter's August Table Scraps Challenge. Nothing like racing the clock to publish. Thanks again Joyful for this great challenge.

Scrappy Yellow Placemat


August's colour is yellow which is perfect for the second placemat that I will make. This one is for my daughter, who requested yellow. The letters are X and O, which I will add to the free motion quilting (FMQ). If the verb tenses are a little wonky in this ...

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August 20, 2023
Five Placemats, One Baby Book, Sunflowers and Gros Morne National Park in Nfld. from The Cozy Quilter

I have now finished my five placemats for Meals on Wheels.  The yellow and gray one was an orphan block which I made wider by adding strips to the sides of the block.  I also took a picture of the backs of the placemats--you can see that I used up some of the fabrics used on the fronts on 4/5. These will be collected by the Oxford Guild for distribution at Christmas. 



At the guild sewing day on Monday, I finished off the placemats and made a cloth baby book from a panel.   This will be a gift for ...

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August 13, 2023
Placemats for Meals on Wheels, Sunflowers, Ottawa and a Field Trip from The Cozy Quilter

The members of the Oxford Quilter's Guild are making placemats for Meals on Wheels recipients for Christmas so each member of the guild has been asked to make 4-5 placemats.  I decided to get mine done early. So far, I have one done and three in progress. This first one was made with some charm squares that were in my stash. 


This one still needs to be quilted. 


I have had this tool fabric in my stash for a while and I'm sure someone will like it!


I used more of the lighthouse fabric on the back of ...

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