Having grown up in Wisconsin and living most of my adult life in Michigan, celebrating Christmas in Arizona feels slightly odd to me! I’ve been enjoying the local Christmas decorations on my morning walks and thought I would share a few with you.
This last picture shows how my very creative daughter in law decorated their front door.
Have a wonderful day!
Remember these little leftovers from my Blueberry Park Half Rectangle Quilt top?
I chopped them up using this tool:
And made them into tiny fans.
I appliqued them to backgrounds and added quarter circles in the corners.
I used my walking foot to quilt the grid and made a binding from more scraps.
The quilting is pretty wonky but I love the texture!
Here are a few pictures after washing.
I love the crinkles! It finished at 12 inches square. That was a fun little finish!
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I had nearly a whole day to sew on Tuesday. I started by laying out rows for the quilt. I pinned each set together so I could clear the design wall.
Then I started piecing this little quilt. My first idea didn’t work out so I decided just to piece all my little bits together. Maybe I’ll like it better when it’s done. I wish I had mad a tiny tumbler quilt instead of this.
I hade my usual help in the sewing room.
Did you know you can go to 2016bestnine.com and find out your most popular Instagram posts for the year? Pretty cool!
Also, I hit a new Fitbit milestone this week. It’s kind of silly, but I find these things quite motivational!
I started another project yesterday too but I will save that for another post.
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I brought this pile of Denyse Schmidt charm squares that I cut from all the DS prints that I had. I cut an equal number of white squares.
I decided to make hem into HSTs and then design from there. While the boys were napping, I started marking sewing lines on the white squares.
As I mark each one, I layer it with a print square.
I have almost half marked. Then I will stitch first and then cut them apart. I will end up with 264 HST blocks. Then the fun begins!
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Quite a while ago, I won a gift certificate for the Fat Quarter Shop. I used it recently. Two of the things I bought were this mini charm pack and small cutting mat.
To make this little quilt, I cut each of the squares in half.
To randomize my pieces, I put them in this plastic container and shook them up!
I will be sewing them together like this:
I’m watching my little boys to day. Big L and I have been doing some crafty things.
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I cut a bunch more hexies for the quilt in progress that I showed yesterday. 
I threw a bunch up on the design wall, but they aren’t mixed up enough.
I pulled them down and put them in a basket to mix them up better. Then I’ll put them back up.
I was asked how big these are. The finished length is just a bit over 5 inches.
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I’ve made some slow progress on this project.
I had some questions the last time I shared this. This is the template I used. I think I bought it on eBay, but it was years ago.
I have three strips pieced. I folded it in half to take the following pictures.
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It’s been a good week with my parents. I’ve been trying to give them a glimpse of this beautiful state. I thought I would share a bit with you as well.
These were taken at Papago Park in Phoenix.
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For better or worse, my Scrappy Trips Quilt is done! I gotta tell you, as I ran out of good combinations, toward the end, these blocks got even uglier!
But I forged ahead and finished so I could at least fold it up and put it away for a few months!
This top finished at 96 inches square and has 64 blocks. I had 4strips leftover. It was hard to find a good p,ace to get pictures of this behemoth.
Not all the rows are showing in the picture above. In the one below,you can see how much iverhangthere is. This is a queen size bed.
I hope I like this better when I get it quilted!
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I thought I would take the opportunity to take better pictures of this quilt I made a couple years ago for Daughter #2.
The piecing went very quickly. I had a lot of fun with the quilting.
Here are some shots of the back.
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