Tag: scrappy

smooches quilt

Smooches

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When I read Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict last Sunday she had a guest blogger Sandra Walker showing how to make her Smooches quilt as part of this years Hands2Help challenge.  Sandra, who blogs at mmmquilts.com  had these great instructions for a scrappy quilt with 12 hearts, background, sashing and a border.  I…

dog themed quilt

Dog Themed Quilt

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Thanks to too many conference calls my second dog themed quilt was bound this week. Finally something good coming out of what are normally boring conference calls. This small quilt is 38.5″ x 43.5″ dog themed quilt is my latest UFO (quilt started before 2020) to be finished. I have one more quilted that must…

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…

blue and orange quilt

My Saturday Sew-In

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I participated in the 3rd Saturday Sew-In with Jennifer at the Inquiring Quilter  yesterday. She held it on her Facebook group and it was lots of fun to sew knowing others were sewing along on their projects at the same time as me!  For some reason I had no place to be yesterday other than…

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…

4 patch quilt top

Anne with an E TV Series Baby Quilt Top

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We found out about an online auction two weeks ago. The auction was for a TV series called Anne with an E  based on the 1901 novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery called Anne of Green Gables. I read the book growing up and it’s many sequels grown up and absolutely loved it. So when I…