I finally did a bit of sewing yesterday. I added some borders and now have the Intrepid Thread challenge piece loaded on the long arm.
I spent some time trying to decide how to quilt it with the white board and some playing on this piece of fabric that I painted a few years ago.
And I made a few more stars.
And no, the curtains are still not done! Ugh!
I haven’t really spent any time in the sewing room since Tuesday! But I have gotten some more handwork done while watching some TV with hubby.
I’ve prepped some more hexies for Brinton Hall and started adding some of the scrappy sections.
I still have a long way to go.
I’m going to try to get the mister to watch an episode of Foye’s War with me tonight. Maybe I can finish that corner I started.
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Last week I showed you the dinosaur quilt that I made for Baby E, today I am showing you the shirting quilt I made for him. I used cast off shirts from his daddy, papa, and uncle in this quilt. 
I used the GO! kite die for this.it makes 8 inch blocks.
I love the striped fabric I used in the back. I found it at a Good Will. 
You can see here that my pints are not perfect and I had difficulty pressing those corners flat.
These last two pictures were taken before washing. I loved the shadows created by the morning sun. 
Have a great weekend!
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Soma over at Whims and Fancies has started a virtual trunk show party called Trunk Full of Quilts.
It is an opportunity to post about some of your favorite finished quilts and share them virtually in Blogland. You can also find others’ virtual trunk shows here. Soma has come up with some lovely prizes to be awarded as well. So pull out some of your quilts and create a trunk show of your own!
For my trunk show, I decided to share some of my favorite Quilts of Valor that I have made over the last few years. I have quilted many tops made by others, but the quilts I am showing today were all made by me from first stitch to last. I hope you enjoy them!
I think this next one is my all time favorite due to the quilting. You can’t see it in the overall shot, but I have quilted an eagle into the center of this nine patch quilt.
You can see it better here.
It shows up better on the back.
The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor.
If you would like to learn more about helping out with the mission of Quilts of Valor click here.
And then head on over to Whims and Fancies to check out other trunk shows!
Not much sewing progress around here this week. I did have some questions regarding my stars the other day. The fabric line is Shenandoah by Windham Fabrics. I started these blocks last winter but got sick of them and put them away in the spring. As of now, I have 82 blocks done.
And 13 more cut and kitted up.
Um….13…..95 blocks? Pretty sure I was planning to make 96 blocks. Hmmmm…. Anyway I am closer to being done.
I did get started on the curtains. The top casings are done but I am procrastinating for sure.
Have a great day!
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I hope you all had a great weekend. I attended a small shower for Daughter #1 on Saturday and presented her with both quilts for Baby E. She loved them! I have already shared the Dino quilt with you and Friday I will show you the finished shirting quilt.
But this is what is on the design wall today.
I also have most of the top done for the Intrepid Thread challenge .
I may add to this. The rules of the challenge allow me to add some of my own fabrics. I’m thinking I will make it into a pillow. Not my usual thing to sew! But as I have been working on this, I have been contemplating its end use. Each year, I am asked to donate to a local quilt show/sale to raise money for Habitat Humanity. I think this would make a great item to donate.
My big project for this week, though, is this:
These are curtains for Baby E’s room. I will be remaking them and adding some appliqué to match the quilt that I made.
I have lots of housework to do today before I can sew. So I best get to it. I hope you all have a productive day!
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I’m finally starting to see the other side of this cold. But I haven’t spent much time in the sewing room this week. However, I have gotten some hand sewing done on my Brinton Hall quilt.
I’ve made most of this progress due to the recent discovery of the TV show, Doc Martin. It is a BBC TV series, available on Netflix. I’m not much of a TV watcher but I do like British TV.
It is time for me to start preparing the hexies for the corners. I hope to dig through some scraps for that today.
I received a big envelope of bow tie blocks yesterday from a swap hosted by Barb over at Fun with Barb. Aren’t they lovely?
We woke up to much frost this mornin. The birdbath is now a bird skating rink.
The frost on the grass is so pretty!
Hope you are able to get some slow stitching in today.
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Happy Friday, everyone! The Dinosaur quilt for Ezra is done!
This was a really fun quilt to make and it gave me a chance to use both my embroidery machine and my hand dyed fabrics, neither of which get used as much as they should.
Here is a shot of the back. 
I used Angela Walters’ idea of dot to dot quilting in the hour glass blocks and a simple loopy design in the background of the embroidered/appliqued blocks.
Daughter #1 is very happy with it and that makes me happy too!
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