Tag: 16-patch

quilts on the clothesline

Happy Laundry

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The three quilts on the right are recent finishes that needed to be washed as I’d used basting spray when making the quilt sandwich. The quilt on the far left has been in regular use and it was time for it to get a wash. And why put quilts in the dryer when you can…

scrappy quilt layout

My latest project

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Here is my latest project: The best thing is with pressing to the white (I know, goes against the grain) the seams all nestle. I love nestling seams! I found this pattern while surfing Pinterest and traced the pattern back to Ramona at  Doodlebugs and Rosebuds quilts.  It caught my eye immediately as something I’d…

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…

square quilt layout with sawtooth stars and uneven 9 patches

Stars in the Darkening Sky

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A month or two ago I made  16 patch blocks using 2 inch squares when I should have been using 2.5″ squares of fabric. I made a lot of blocks before I realised I had made an error.  Not a world ending problem at all though some rather pithy language did occur at the time. …

big and little patch scrap quilt

The big & little patch quilt

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I needed to make 44 – 16 patch blocks to make a border on a quilt.  I’d made more than half of them when I pulled the quilt out and realised I’d been making the blocks with 2″ squares when quilt was based on 2.5″ squares. That was a fun moment – NOT.  Out came…

Incremental Progress

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Things are progressing, slowly and surely, on my Calico Rose quilt. Thanks  to Queen Victoria  we had a long weekend this past weekend. She may have died in 1901 but we still celebrate her birthday the best way possible with a day off of work.  With the extra day I was both able to relax…