Fresh Modern Bee II – Union Jack

After my battle to complete the first quarter of this block, I finally got the whole thing done. I’m celebrating – these took some real focus and energy for some precise piecing, but will look great all together.

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Doll Quilt Swap – Ready to Mail

Finally finished the last details of my doll quilt and associated goodies. This will be in the mail soon to my partner, in it’s matching envelope. My entry in matchiest doll quilt package contest. : )

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Working through my Work in Progress pile

A finish! This tablerunner has been hanging on the back of my sewing chair for weeks (alot of weeks), just waiting for a few lines of quilting to finish it.   The blocks are extras from making this aqua and white quilt I cut the big HST’s into hourglass blocks for the table runner, though. [...]

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Action Kivu Sewing Workshop Fund Raiser

If you haven’t seen it, there’s a fabulous fundraiser going on at Handmade by Alisa She writes “This is a fundraiser for Action Kivu, an organization in eastern Congo that runs a sewing workshop for victims of the conflict there. The conflict in Congo has taken the lives of over 5.4 million people since 1998. Rape [...]

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Two fabric orders

I’ve been shopping lately…. And, the donation blocks to go with them…

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Watercolors quilt top

I liked this pillow/block enough to make a quilt top out of watercolor HST’s. By my count this is the fourth quilt I’ve made with these blocks: Err, and the pillows… But this is the first time I’ve made triangles with them. There’s a million seams at some of those corners, but I like the [...]

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Changing seasons

A sign of things to come: That’s my quilt, back on my bed. Earlier this summer, in the middle of a heat wave, I swapped it out for a light coverlet, but a couple of days ago I bought apples at the farm stand, wished I had a jacket when I went to the store, [...]

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(pink orange squares)

Another finish – actually, this quilt has been finished for a while, but a full time job and a couple of days of gloomy weather have made getting photos tricky. I’ll still have to wait for a sunnier day to get one that shows the quilting well. The patchwork was fun (though it took some [...]

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Watercolors Pillow

A small finish: this block into a throw pillow for the shop

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Planning a new Quilt

I’m planning a gift quilt for a family birthday in September.  I love making things for people I love, but gift quilts are often the hardest to plan, since the recipients often have a more traditional style than I do, and I want the gift to reflect their tastes and mesh with their home. Nicey [...]

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