Category: My Creations

9 patch quilt top with broken stripes

My Broken Stripe Nine Patch Quilt

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I had lost my binding mojo with this broken stripe nine patch quilt . It has been by my chair in the living room for almost 2 months waiting for me to finish binding it.  Strangely I don’t mind hand binding once I’ve got going doing it.  My problem is I find myself reluctant to…

steps quilt

Steps Quilt Top Complete

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My Steps Quilt top is complete! I’m really liking this.  A perfect sewing project in a stressful time, easy, repetitive and colourful! All I worried  about while sewing it was trying not to have two of the same colour touch each other and while I managed for the most part there are 3 or 4…

gathering quilt

Gathering Quilt

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I have been doing a lot of sewing this weekend – what else is there to do really? Housework? Well, I guess …  but quilting always wins over that if I have anything to say about it. I have enough of my  Step Blocks (I decided to name them) to make both quilt layouts that…

steps quilt block

Stress quilting

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The last few weeks have been stressful,  so I’ve been stress quilting. What with being home 24/7, worrying about family, friends,  community,  country and indeed the world why worry on a small scale when you can go big, right? Luckily my husband and I are both able to work from homeand so far haven’t been…

big and little patch quilt

Two finished Quilts

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I finished two quilts yesterday! One with machine binding on both the front and back and one sewing the binding to the front of the quilt and hand sewing it to the back of the quilt. This DOUBLES my UFO finishes from 2 to 4 for the year (plus one non UFO finish)! Not very…

sawtooth star scrap quilt

Stars in the Darkening Sky – Finished

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At long last Stars in the Darkening Sky is a finish. We quilted it at Whirls n Swirls and used a wool batting. I finished it off with a scrappy binding and even managed to find some of the fabric from the star points to use for this!  This is my second UFO finish for…

small dog quilt

Small Dog Quilt

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CT byHere is my first finish for 2020! The dog themed blocks were from a small bag of material found at Value Village a second hand store and the solid blocks were from fat quarters that were in my stash. It will be donated to the guild’s outreach program in February.