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Finish it up Friday

I had three small finishes and one big one this week. My bigger finish is the shirting quilt I was working on but since the weather is so nasty, I don’t have pictures yet. I finished two more small quilts … Continue reading

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Working with Vintage Fabrics

I love vintage fabrics and have collected bits and pieces for years. I enjoy making small quilts out of treasured bits. But they can be a challenge to use and you just never know how things will turn out. I … Continue reading

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Work in progress Wednesday

I have a couple works in progress right now. First, the quilting on my shirtings quilt. I also started working on this months SQT challenge. By the way, SQT stands for the Small Quilt Talk group on Yahoo. I amusing … Continue reading

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Shirting quilt and Sewing for Baby Q

I got the top of my shirting quilt done last night. It didn’t change too much from the layout I was working with over the weekend. I even got it loaded into the frame and hope to start quilting before … Continue reading

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Design Wall Monday

I am happy to say I got some sewing time in this weekend! I have been playing a bit with my shirting pieces and they are on the design wall today. Still not sure yet about this arrangement. I also … Continue reading

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Sunday

Remember these? They turned into this: Which turned into this: I took some pictures at an angle so hopefully the quilting will show. Even though this only measures 22″ square, I still quilted it with the long arm. Sometimes it … Continue reading

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This and That

I worked on several different projects yesterday. First my friend Sarah came to work on her quilt.,it is looking fabulous! I will take a picture next time. While she worked on her quilt, I sewed shirting scraps together. I am … Continue reading

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Finish it up Friday!

For the first time in a long time, I have a finish to share! Yes, I finally got that QOV for the HMQS Quilting Treasures challenge finished! Here it is: I added the sleeve and labels and sent it off … Continue reading

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Would you rescue this quilt?

Monday I went to a fun antique shop with Daughter #1. We spot toed this lovely old quilt. I think the pattern is called Chips and Whetstones. It was simply hand quilted in a double diagonal pattern. The condition was … Continue reading

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Slogging along…

Finally got the challenge quilt started. Not finished, just started. See that pink, I mean red, border? It takes 10 minutes to mark, 10 minutes to quilt, and a couple hours to unquilt. Grrrr…… This has truly been a challenging … Continue reading

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