Here are pictures of just a few of the quilts that especially appealed to me at our local quilt show over the weekend. I helped set up on Thursday afternoon, and then worked the morning on Friday. There was a nice turnout, and lots of inspiration. Now, if I could just get this business of needing more than 24 hours in a day figured out, it would help so much in getting things done!!
Little Bits Of This...
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I know I've said this many a time.
When asked what my favorite kinds of quilts are the one word answer is
"Scrappy."
Scrap quilts with multitudes of dif...
The Bachelorette Party
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*I received a free copy of this novel from NetGalley, St. Martin's Press,
and Minotaur Books for my honest review.*A group of 4 ladies have an
overnight (...
June and July Challenge Update
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June was a good month for me for the Chookshed 2025 Challenge.
Good progress on this project called "Simply Serene". I scrapped the brown
out and replac...
How to Combine Colors for Stunning Quilts
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This paragraph serves as an introduction to your blog post. Begin by
discussing the primary theme or topic that you plan to cover, ensuring it
captures t...
More Catch Up
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I think Avery liked his garbage truck quilt.This is the view I had almost
daily.Everytime I walked into the house this one crawled or walked to me
and wan...
Quilty Girl Number 2
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page 26 of 40 in my personal visual diary challenge
This is the next phase in my creative drawing journey. Developing portraits
in my own style.
With ...
Summer Speed
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Hello! Just popping in very quickly in amongst wrapping a big parcel,
making a packed lunch, sorting laundry, dashing out to the shops, and
packing for a f...
red and white trees!-a completed quilt
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I finished my red and white trees! quilt last week. It took me a few days
to get around to hanging it up, but I think it was worth the wait. I LOVE
how i...
Finished shawl
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I completed the shawl I had been working on. I do still need to block in
but I have to find something to use that I can pin it to so I can leave it
for a ...
"The Grid Design Workbook"
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For all of us machine quilters who are looking for some new ideas for
quilting designs, this is a wonderful new book by Cindy Seitz-Krug, an
award winni...
An Awesome Gift!
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Look what arrived in the mail yesterday from my friend Mary from *Quilt
Hollow*.
It looks huge in the photo above but in actual fact, it measures only 6"x...
Quiltmaker's Sew along
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If you are here, reading this, you must be because Quiltmaker sent you
here:) As you may have noticed, I don't blog any more. But I was very
honored that o...
Snug as a Bird in a Boot!
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New home for the birds....
It's always fun to run into an old friend after years apart. That's what
happened to me last week. Since we last saw each oth...
Jan Finishes
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This is my second little quilt finish of the Simple Whatnots Club 1. Didn't
sign up for Club 2 because I still have four little quilt patterns to do
from...
Try, Try Again
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I've jumped back into blogging. My heart wanted it. It's my partner, my
coach, my diary. It was time. I've been stitching more and more over the
past f...
Hexie Quilt is Finished
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Three years after starting it, I put the last stitch in the binding of my 1
1/2" hexie quilt on Saturday. I still haven't settled on a name for it.
It may...
Me and my man and............
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Last summer we walked happy and smiling out of the church when DD1 got
married.
And later in the summer we became the proud grandparents of
a..............
Rainbow Scrappy Saturday
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Hello everyone, I thought I wouldn’t have anything to show again for this
weekend but I got a tail wind last night and managed to sew up the little
cross b...
The time has come...
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things change, people change, you know how it goes... when I started this
blog 6 years ago, I was working for a fabric company....I was quite
literally wor...
Life on Easy Street
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I completed Step 3 of the Easy Street Mystery over at Quiltville. I am
enjoying this, and look forward to Friday for the next Step! You can see
how other...
Grandma's Flower Garden
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I have been fortunate to recently inherit my Grandmother's Flower Garden
quilt. The quilt is all hand pieced and hand quilted. This quilt was most
like...
I have a new blog!
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I've decided to move my blogging over to WordPress. Blogger has been
great, but there are some things that I just can't do here so I'm giving
WordPress a ...
Wow..what great quilts! I especially like the stars with the flying geeze circles around them. Our guild's show is this coming weekend.
ReplyDeleteOOOO LOVE your new header picture.
ReplyDeleteAnd those quilts are all very nice. I bet you had lots of fun working the show. So.... did you enter?
Oh wow, these are amazing! Wish I had the patience and skill to make such beautiful, detailed quilts!
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