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bricks and strips quilt top

A very colorful bricks and strips quilt

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What else to do when you have a pile of bricks (2.5″  x 4.5″ squares) leftover from other projects other than make a colorful bricks and strips quilt? I  made a  zipper quilt last February as well as a Bonnie Hunter Star Struck quilt during the summer. Both projects used bricks. After making those quilts,…

larger bear claw blocks

Bearing Down in the Scrap Box

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I swear the scraps are knee deep around here. I keep making scrap quilts but the pile of scraps never seems to go down in my scrap boxes. Not sure quite what I would do if I had no scraps – as scrap quilting is my favourite! But still, everywhere scraps.  Back before Christmas I…

Scrap Quilts make me Happy

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What can I say other than scrap quilts make me happy! This one is no exception!  Here it is all finished: I started this quilt back in April 2020  when I saw the quilt on Ramona’s blog Doodlebugs and Rosebuds Quilts. That seems a lifetime ago now.   I quickly sewed the top using 2″ rather…

scrappy beige nine patch quilt

Add color to beige and it’s not so bad.

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After I made the Brown Quilt Cinnamon Bars  (Thanks to Preeti at Sew Preeti Quilts for the great name) I still had lots of a solid beige material left. As it was near Christmas I wanted something easy to sew with that fabric. I just needed to figure out how to add color so that I’d enjoy making a…

2021 Quilting Project List

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At the beginning of 2020 I had 38 quilt projects unfinished, and I finished 21 of those during the year! I feel really good about that accomplishment. But I also started 42 new projects during 2021. Of those I finished 24 and one was tossed as it was barely started and I hated it. One…

brown and beige quilt

Trying to make a dent in the stash

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Brown and beige are two colors I rarely work with as they aren’t colors I particularly like.  However, my stash seems to have an overabundance of both those colors.  As far as I can tell that happened because I was in a fat quarter bundle of the month club and because when I see deals…