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Cheryl Brickey of Meadow Mist Designs is hosting her annual Best of link up. The idea is for bloggers to share their five best posts of 2018. You can define “best” any way you want. It could be most popular posts, your favorite finishes etc. I’ve decided to look back at my five most viewed posts from 2018.

1. The Shirting Quilts. This post showed my favorite finishes of the year, the quilts for my siblings made from my dad’s shirts.

2. Hourglass QOV was next on the list.

3. Good Will was a quilt I finished from a top purchased at Good Will.

4. Scrappy Trips ended up being a grad gift.

5. And Checkers rounded out the list.

It has been another fun year of blogging and quilting. Thanks for coming a,omg on my journey! Don’t forget to check out the link up over at Meadow Mist Designs for more.

Have a great day!

I have been wanting to make a string quilt so when I saw that Lori at Humble Quilts was going to host a string along, I decided to jump in! My inspiration is this antique quilt I found Pinterest.

I have some scraps left from my dad’s shirts after making quilts for my mom and siblings last year. You can see them here. I’m not sure I have enough, but they will stretch farther with the alternate plain blocks.

My dad’s shirts were mostly poly cotton blends and rather thin. So I decided to try foundation piecing the diamonds on muslin. I’m using this die from Accuquilt to cut the muslin foundations.

I tried our a couple blocks. I used the flip and sew technique, covering the foundation.

This is what the back looked like.

Then I trimmed even with the foundation.

So far, so good!

Have a great day!

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“For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭9:6-7‬ ‭

I pray that each one of you will experience the joy of knowing Jesus and the peace that only He can bring.

Merry Christmas!

When my kids were very small, I bought a panel just like this to make a nativity set for them from JoAnn Fabrics. I wanted a set that they could really play with.

It became a tradition for our son, the oldest, to tell the Christmas story before opening gifts using this set. He’s a creative guy and often added hilarious details that may or may not have been in the original version! One year, we learned that Mary and Joseph met via E-Harmony. 😂

When his first son was born, I passed that set on to him. A couple years later, I found another panel at a garage sale. This year I decided to make it for Daughter #1’s family so that they could carry on the tradition as well.

I should be able to finish this up so I can gift it this afternoon.

Merry Christmas Eve!

I didn’t get much sewing done on my trip. I made two blocks before I left and two more while I was there.

I made two more since I got home.

Pretty slow progress! But I have 14 more blocks prepped to work on over the holidays. Let’s see how many I actually get done.

Have a wonderful day!

About a month ago, I got the idea that along with the quilts for Big L and Little L, that I would like to give their bedroom a makeover. So, I thought it would be fun to share the before and after photos.

Here is before:

Anyone with little boys knows how hard they can be on bedrooms! My son was a great sport about my schemes! Here are the after photos.

The top after pic most accurately shows the paint color. I ordered everything except for the paint on Amazon and timed it so the bunk beds, mattresses, and other bits would arrive at nearly the same time we did. We reused the dresser and found the lamp in a closet. The boys loved it!

I hope all of this will remind them on a daily basis how much Nana and Papa love them.

Have a great day!

Before leaving AZ, we had Christmas with our Arizona boys and I got to give them their quilts. They were a hit!

Little L’s favorite block was the one with jelly beans.

This video is just precious!

I’ll share pictures of the quilts in their room soon.

Have a great day!