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Finally done – all photos are now taken of this quilt – pattern was by Barb Adams and Alma Allen – the pattern was in the book “A Cold Wind Blows”.  Finished at 101 x 101” after washing 2 times and drying 2 times.  I used Hobbs Tuscany Cotton for the batting. Love Letters was […]

Love Letters is still drying at the moment so no beauty shots – today maybe? if the weather is right I will take it outside.  I had mentioned possible bleeding – around one dark pink leave and I think it was an orange and blue – all disappeared but the pink – but the pink […]

Finally got done with the binding and will be soaking it and washing it today – keep your fingers crossed for the several areas that showed bleeding – well use a lot of water! This is from one of the back sections for a view of the quilting Yuletide Gatherings from Tuesday night I mentioned […]

Love Letters is coming along but I am still slowly plodding away on stitching binding down – I have not worked on it every day but it will be done in another day or two with finished photos by the weekend I would imagine.  I am on the 4th side now! Turning the corner to […]

Yes – gasp! that is going on in my sewing room and I will be so glad when I get done with this quilt for the Fat Quarter Shop and quite will descend on my sewing room again – well that is in between using the sewing machine for the hour here and there when […]

I didn’t touch the sewing machine all day yesterday – it was so nice out for a good part of the day that I enjoyed sitting outside while I could and listen to an audio book and stitch.  I had hoped to spend more of the summer out on the porch and then we had […]

Yesterday morning started out nice so I was out on the porch listening to an audio book with Noriko’s Star hexies in action.  I got one of the rows in section 3 done – in the house I am working on binding instead of hexies – now the upcoming weather has us being in a […]

On to the final steps of working on Love Letters.  Binding was cut, pressed and applied – I loosely pin all around the quilt so that I can avoid a seam in the corners At the machine — linking to Small Quilts & Doll Quilts today Folded on the couch ready for hand stitching – […]

I had plans to get the flannel backing for the Yuletide Gatherings quilt pieced – I had thought it was a wide back for some reason imagine my surprise taking it out of the bag and discovering more than 9 yards of fabric to press, cut and sew. (I had the right amount of fabric […]

I am trying to get the sewing room straightened out and more things up higher instead of lower (not going to happen, too much stuff!) and I got a little bit done but not a lot.  I forgot to take a before photo – but I had the canvas boxes in the next photo stacked […]

Yesterday I was busy cutting the pieces for the traveler blocks – each of the four blocks has 28 pieces in it.  After I got them cut out I cut scrap pieces to get them off the table.  The pieces that make up each segment of the traveler I divide up into four piles so […]

I was picking through my orange fabric yesterday deciding what to put in the Arkansas Traveler blocks – I wanted to use smaller pieces first before I cut into the new orange fabrics if I could to use up those pieces and I was able to round up enough for them – I need 16 […]

I find the Snail’s Trail to be an easy block and got all 4 – 8 inch blocks done in an hour. Up on the wall – I am linking to Texas Quilt Gal for To Do Tuesday – this week I will try to get my Arkansas Traveler blocks done and maybe my one […]

I never used to think stars were my favorite block to make but they must be I have at least 4 quilts going with stars in them right now.  First I finished up the two blocks needed for the Leymoyne Stars I put them up on the wall for their photo overall I have 8 […]

Noriko’s Star – a bit of work done on it – putting strips together.  To put your strips together you do a bit of folding of pieces here and there to manipulate your strip as you stitch. Here are the three rows put together – I take the paper out of the middle row(above) but […]

EDITED:  blog issues – published a little later than normal Would you believe as I was laying blocks out on the wall from all those made since January I found a block that was totally done wrong and it had been on the wall each month since we did Yellow!!  I didn’t notice and if […]

Thread basting hexies is mindless work, I usually listen to an audio book or watch tv at the same time – I almost have the first section that comes after the turquoise area ready for stitching  – I changed by blue selections from what I had the other day to another that had more aqua/turquoise […]

Yesterday I got one block for the Hunter’s Star done in the morning and then we were gone the rest of the day – Mike had a meeting he wanted to go to in Little Rock concerning a local issue he is involved in and I had a quilt that was on consignment at the […]

A little star crazy here I guess but I think stars are one of my favorite patterns – there are so many kinds to make First off here are the updates on Noriko’s Star – I decided I was going to need the work table for this part so I could get photos to document […]

  I read blogs through my feedly reader and usually have no problem with getting updates – but some reason the last couple days there had not been many on there and I thought people were not updating their blogs – then last night I started to get one update after another – I think […]