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Well I managed to get done with my January blocks for the RSC challenge which I am linking to this morning at SoScrappy.  The “whirligig” will be appliqued to a background square later when I decide which fabric.  But first I had to fix a major mistake – I cut the white triangles from the […]

In the morning I got sewing done, then grocery shopping, then spreading frost sheets over berry plants and frost bags over bushes. I had hoped to get this first block of the center of the Dresden quilt further than I did, but that didn’t happen – now the hardest part betting this string around the […]

I don’t have any dies for the Whirly-gig Dresden plate so I was busy off and on yesterday getting templates ready and cutting pieces. Now the block is ready for sewing which will make it a bit different from what it looks like now,.  There will be nine of these total and 20 of the […]

For the RSC24 I told you I decided on a Dresden Plate design and I changed my mind several times on the arrangement but in the end yesterday I decided to follow Sue Garman’s pattern closely – Happy Daze – each month will be a different color – here are the green half plates for […]

I had thought to make two different kinds of petals for the Dresden’s and then after I cut them out I realized I didn’t want to – I’m making just one of the petals not both.  I just like the pointed one better! So I’m just pushing those other ones away and will use those […]

Noriko’s Star is now ready for me to thread baste the next section – it is certainly outgrowing its spot on the edge of the kitchen/dining room where I have been taking photo’s of it.  I need to continue all the way around and then a totally different design goes around after I add a […]