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It has been a whirlwind week this week, starting out with presentations to two guilds and a class. On Monday, we drove to Chapel Hill to present my Decisions Decisions program to the Durham Orange Quilt Guild. They are a large guild, with a full house that night, plus a couple of dozen attending on Zoom. This presentation was three years in the making! I was originally contracted in 2019 to do the program in 2020. We all know what happened that year. Then we postponed a year, and that too had to be canceled. Finally, we had a date ...

First, if you have ordered a pattern from me, and you haven’t seen a paypal invoice or an email from me, please check your spam folder. I have two pattern orders where the persons ordering haven’t responded, and I think their email systems aren’t showing them my emails. One lady has sent me three orders for the same thing, and I’ve sent her six emails, but she apparently hasn’t seen any of my responses. I promise you, if you send me an email, I will answer, so if you don’t hear from me, check ...

I got the quilting done on the blue and yellow quilt this week. When we left off, I had the top constructed and was deciding on a border.

I did choose to put a narrow white border on to preserve my star points. Then I loaded it on the longarm, and began quilting.

I used white Glide in the top and Bottom Line in the bobbin.

The batting is Hobbs Cotton Wool blend, and gives beautiful definition to the stitching.

The pantograph is called Pansies by Urban Elementz.

I think the combination of pantograph and batting softens the edges of ...

I have begun working on new colorways for my To The Nines pattern. This pattern is for sale on My Patterns page, using a different method of half square triangles. The pattern also has lots of sizes, where the class will only be a throw size. First up is a lovely blue and yellow colorway. These fabrics are so pretty, but they are a weird size. What I thought was a fat quarter stack, turn out to be 6 inch WOF strips. So of course I cut them wrong. I should have cut some 4-1/2 inch strips first, but ...

Our sewing day for Quilts of Valor was a fun day of hard work by a small group of very motivated sewing enthusiasts.  We set up the night before, with the door prizes displayed, refreshment table set with nice decorations, patriotic quilts on the walls, wool batting sample gifts for participants set out, and information on our local Quilts of Valor group in case new friends wished to join.  I want to thank my wonderful husband for all his help.  He carried the heavy stuff, helped volunteers with their things, kept us on track with the hourly door prizes, took ...