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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No, I didn’t fall off the face of the earth

Sorry! I won’t get into it, but life has completely taken over my, well, life and kept me completely away from blog, flickr, even my sewing machine. I finally managed to get everything under control enough to get this month’s pinwheel bee-blocks sewn and mailed. And love how they turned out – you know I [...]

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Some sewing progress…

Finally got a few minutes to sew, and made some progress on my bee. Here are the fabrics: Quilt Happie gave us  lots of freedom with the blocks – rectangles that used all of the fabrics and blocks that had  “a modern Improv, scrappy kind of feel” I decided to play with different sizes of [...]

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Doll Quilt Swap

I’m behind in posting pictures of the cute little quilt I received in the Doll Quilt Swap 9 – for reasons that are beyond my comprehension my computer refused to upload them for a week. Audrey got some of my favorite elements here – the fun red and aqua color combination, my favorite white sashings, [...]

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Quilting with solids

I doubt I’m alone in this, but I’ve been thinking about solids alot lately. My “Daydreaming” quilt – inspired by City Quilts –  still needs to be quilted – but I’ve been doodling more solids quilt ideas on envelop backs and the like. And, then, look what landed in my mail box for my Fresh [...]

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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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Lagniappe

Lagniappe:  a little something special. My new vocabulary from the DQS9 discussion board — I really like that there’s a word for this. And I really like the lagniappe I’m including with my quilt this time: note cards with fabric patchwork swatches. I’m unusually matchy with this project, so these are made from the same [...]

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DQS9 — Almost done

A few more secret garden blocks to finish off my quilt for DQS9 And a tiny little one that doesn’t have a spot yet. The little one is about an inch and a half across — adorable, but after doing it, I don’t recommend making them this small. So many layers of fabric in such [...]

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American vs. Union Jack

After work on Friday, when my brain was ready for the weekend, was clearly not the time to sit down to paper piece a very precise Union Jack for this month’s bee.  Paper piecing messes with my brain anyways, so I shouldn’t have been surprised. This is me, with the first quadrant of the flag/block, [...]

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