I have an idea for a Halloween mini-quilt. A paper pieced raven is the most ambitious design element. As with most projects, I try to do the crazy hard parts first to make sure I can do it. So I turned this crow found at the the Graphics Fairy’s site. (Go there!) Old Crow, Graphics Fairy (not that she’s an old…
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The Raven
Stashin’ with a passion
My husband may or may not have given me permission to spend a little money on fabric each month (Hooray!). Within reason. Well. Maybe we can define reason later, hm? Haha, no just kidding. I don’t think I went that nuts. But I’ll let you judge for yourselves. I assume you will be on my side. 🙂 The haul, a…
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Pinked Charms Quilt
(Edited to add: There’s a tutorial now.) It has been awhile since I’ve posted. I can attribute this absence to the start of (home)school and to the very large twin quilt I must quilt before I start anything else. A twin size is about the largest quilt I can quilt on my machine. But it is not something I enjoy….
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Procrastination
It has been like a thousand degrees for over a month or something crazy. I’m ready for Fall. The sad thing is that the leaves are falling off the trees for want of water. Not Fall. I try to hold off on getting too into Fall because down here in Houston there is not much Fall at all (read no…
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FWQAL Weeks 1-12, in which I start foundation piecing
After last week’s frustration with difficulty matching points on itsy bitsy blocks, I decided to give the paper piecing method a try. So I joined the Farmer’s Wife Yahoo group; they have all the foundation pdf files available for print. Since I am scaling my blocks down to 4 inches finished. I printed some files at 67%. Then I got…
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