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WIP Wednesday {Spring Break}

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19 Mar

My kids are on Spring Break and we aren’t going anywhere! Hooray for peaceful playtime and bordered bickering. 🙂

Don’t you just love a warm spring breeze? *deep sigh*

This week I’m continuing to work on my feather bed pillow. (Pattern by Anna Maria Horner.)

To be pillow. :) #pantonequilt #patchwork #annamariahorner

I started quilting it with a big pic-stitch type hand quilting. I hadn’t intended to, but my only hand quilting needle I have left is a bit too long (the others have been scattered to edges of my house only to be discovered in the future by naked feet, eep!).

Ah, well make do right?

Big stitch. Yah or nay? Hmmmm.

Thanks to my friends on Instagram, I was reassured and will continue quilting it. Will I make it in time for the Pantone Challenge? That remains to be seen.

The binding on Mr. Jones is all sewn and I will be showing the finished product later this week. It’s probably my favorite quilt to date, well at least of the ones I’ve shown on my blog. 😉

Mmmmmbindinggggg! #denyseschmidt

I hope you are having a wonderful week. I’m linking up to WIP Wednesday. Thank you for stopping by.

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  1. Jenn @ A Quarter Inch from the Edge says

    March 19, 2014 at 2:32 pm

    Love your feathers! Yet another tempting pattern! Hope you get it done in time for the Pantone Challenge – I'm afraid I've thoroughly dropped the ball on that one! 🙂

  2. Laurie says

    March 19, 2014 at 3:17 pm

    This is beautiful. It's a great idea to do that pattern on a small scale I think since it's so much work! I love the colors and border choice too.

  3. safieh says

    March 19, 2014 at 3:28 pm

    I love all of these! I can't wait to see the feathers in person, it looks amazing. And the corduroy on the back of that qulit was so soft, I hope to see the finished quilt in person too! Beautiful.

    • rebeccabryan says

      March 20, 2014 at 12:55 am

      Thanks Safieh! Missed you Saturday. 🙁

      🙂

  4. Yvonne @ Quilting Jetgirl says

    March 19, 2014 at 3:36 pm

    Your feathers are lovely! I should probably give that block a try because I'm so intimidated by how complicated it looks. I think the quilting is fab, too, so yay for your Instagram friends! Good luck getting it done in time for the challenge.

    • rebeccabryan says

      March 20, 2014 at 12:57 am

      Thank you! I don't think I'll be getting it done for the challenge. Ah well.

  5. Andrea Turner says

    March 19, 2014 at 5:12 pm

    The feathers look great! And I can't wait to see your finished quilt.

    • rebeccabryan says

      March 20, 2014 at 12:56 am

      Thank you!

  6. Alison says

    March 19, 2014 at 5:50 pm

    I looooove your feathers!

    • rebeccabryan says

      March 20, 2014 at 12:56 am

      Thank you!

  7. knitnkwilt says

    March 19, 2014 at 8:07 pm

    This is the first I've seen the feather pattern in prints–I really like your version.

    • rebeccabryan says

      March 20, 2014 at 12:55 am

      Thanks!

  8. Carla says

    March 20, 2014 at 2:26 am

    Love the pop of yellow social climber with the purple. It's giving me some ideas on what I want to do with the 5 (!) yards of the yellow I bought when it was first reprinted.

  9. Leah says

    March 20, 2014 at 5:13 am

    Love your feathers….

    Have kids home on spring break too. Can they go back to school? Oh and mine are home next week too….

  10. Heidi Staples says

    March 24, 2014 at 5:55 pm

    Lovely, lovely feathers!

  11. Sara Curtis says

    May 12, 2014 at 5:05 pm

    This is so pretty! I want to make one… Great fabric choices.

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It’s about slow mornings, quiet time to myself, creating something with my hands, spending time doing something textile, not scrolling on the internet, spending more time creating and less time consuming...

And I think that’s exactly why so many people are being drawn to quilting today.

You want to get offline, learn something new, and have more quiet time that is just for you and your imagination. ✨

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What’s stopping you from quilting isn’t that you don’t want to do it. It’s because you have already convinced yourself of something before even giving it a fair shot. 

You’re probably thinking something like...

👉 “I don’t think I’m creative enough.”
👉 “It looks too complicated.”
👉 “I wouldn’t know where to start.”
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👉 “What if I spend all that money and I’m terrible at it?”
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Almost every quilter I know started with one of those ideas in their head, including me. 🤫

The beautiful quilts you see today didn’t begin as beautiful quilts, they began as just an idea and a willingness to try.

Nobody sits down at a sewing machine and automatically knows how to quilt.

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