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Category Archives: Works In Progress
Balloon covers for Sierra Leone
Are these cool or what?!!?
These are NOT balls. They’re fabric covered balloons!
Here’s the story behind this project.
My sister-in-law, Janet, is returning to Sierra Leone next month. She went a couple of years ago with some of her fellow church members. This is her description of what they’re accomplishing, along with some pictures from her most [...]
Tagged Balloon covers, Sierra Leone
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Second-fastest quilt in the west
Remember this quilt top?
No? Probably because I made it over a year ago. I didn’t like it much then, and I still don’t like it now. So, I decided to make a few changes.
Well. That’s a bit more interesting.
Looks kind of pixelated, doesn’t it?
Check this out – one of the fabrics I used for [...]
Tagged jelly roll quilt
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A girl’s night in
Ingredients: iron, starch, paintbrush, templates, pre-cut fabrics…
and an NCIS marathon.
Sluuurrrrp.
It made for a very productive evening – I got 18 blocks basted and ready!
(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday
I think it’s going to be too big…
random thoughts and design wall
This will be a quick post – summer always seems to be a busy time, doesn’t it?
I can never have just one project to work on at a time. I have a tendency to get bored or frustrated with something, so I’ll put it down for a week or two and work on something else. [...]
Serendipity
I’ve been away from the sewing machine for a while, helping my husband build a deck onto the back of our house. It’s gorgeous, if I do say so myself! Wade did an awesome job. All that remains is adding some lattice trim and a couple of stairs. And the cleanup, of course. That’s my [...]
Tagged 10-minute block
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10 minute block additions and variations
There were a few comments on my earlier post asking for a link to the 10 minute block tutorial I had talked about. This video here is probably the best, although she doesn’t show the actual sewing. The first half of the video is instruction on how to make the block, the other half gives [...]
10 minute block madness
This week, while I contemplated borders for this quilt and this quilt, I stumbled across a tutorial for something touted as a 10-minute block. I’d never heard of it before! A layer cake, 3 seams, and a block that finishes at 18 inches?
I walked myself through the instructions and successfully completed one block. It was [...]
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Drunkard’s Path progress
Lots of progress made on the Drunkard’s-Path-With-A-Twist quilt – I got the center section assembled!
I absolutely LOVE it! It seems I say that about all my quilts, but I have to say this one will probably end up being one of my favorites.
Due to a lack of the right fabrics and poor planning on my [...]
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Drunkard’s Path with a twist
I purchased these fabrics a year ago, when Cindi and I were in Paducah for the quilt show. We went to Hancocks (also known as Heaven) and I found two of them in the back room on clearance.
The other two fabrics caught my eye as I was making my way to the register. It made [...]