Getting organized

Sometime each winter, usually right around New Years, I  get ambitious about cleaning out and getting organized. In this years’ round of organizing, I ended up with an extra clear  shoe-organizer thing-y. I decided to put it back to use, to hold my small scraps. They’d been in plastic bins, roughly color-sorted, but having them [...]

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Waste not, want not…

I was sorting through the various piles in my sewing room, when I found these blocks. They’re extras from this tablerunner I made as a Christmas gift. I didn’t really have a plan for them, but I had them, and I liked them, so it was a shame to leave them in a pile. Finally [...]

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Weekend finish(es)

One project, three matching pillows A commission, so much as I love this design, they’ll be heading for a new home soon.

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Spiral Love

I have a stack of other projects demanding my attention, but I’m busily sewing spiral blocks instead.  I’ve got a good stack now, and even though the (full size)  quilt will be far bigger than my design wall, I’ve stuck some of the the blocks up there, pretty much just so that I can admire [...]

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Commissions

Just a quick sneak peak of a pair of commissions: A set of three pillows, in one of my favorite blocks. I’ve made pillows just like this before, and used the blocks in (lots of) other projects – including the quilt in my header, and I’m still always happy to see them come together from a humble stack of [...]

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Bee Block – Pt. 2

I posted my sunny Dresden plate bee-block a while ago, but as I was looking at the pile of scraps and getting ready to send them back, I decided I wasn’t done with them.  I’m just a little behind in posting pictures of the 2nd one. After the precise, traditional piecing of the Dresden, I [...]

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Spiral Process

I don’t usually go through quite this much “process” before I start sewing, but since I did, I thought I’d share the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat… or something less melodramatic. I had an idea, the other day – you can make spirals more or less the same way as a log [...]

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New potholders

These new potholders have been gracing my kitchen for the last week or so. I won’t show you the potholders these replaced: suffice it to say they were commercial potholders that were merely good-enough when they were new, and they were far from new. I first pulled this stack of fabric back in early December [...]

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Oops!

I’ve been participating in Angela’s Fabric Diet – and all January, I was really good, and stuck to my diet.   Then I went away last weekend, and there was an LQS (well, sort of, it was only 20-30 minutes out of my way), and I try to support support local shops. So I stopped [...]

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Bee Block: Sunny Dresden

Sunny yellow dresden for this month’s bee: perfect contrast to a cold, snow-y month. (The local TV station just announced we’d set a new snow-fall record for January. The meteorologist sounded a little too happy/excited about that, especially since we’re starting February with another foot of snow. Ok, weather-whine done, moving on)   The request this month [...]

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