Christmas in August, a photo by bryanhousequilts on Flickr. This is a quilt for my mom. I had intended to give it to her last Christmas, but things came up and I was overly ambitious (am I the only one?) Since it wasn’t getting done last Christmas, I put off quilting it to work on other things. I was dreading…
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Christmas in August
Katie’s Choice Quilt Top
And here is the finished quilt top I alluded to in my last post: And here is my finished quilt top. I hope to spruce up our bedroom starting with this quilt. So new lamps and curtains and naturally new/more pillows. 🙂 All of the fabric except for the border are Amy Butler charm squares. Each Katie’s Choice block has…
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FWQAL weeks #1-9
Wow, am I tired! This heat plus getting things ready for Cora to start Kindergarten (wow!) is wearing me out! We just had a parent-as-co-teacher training for the past couple of days for Cora’s school, a University Model School. I could be overwhelmed by all the information and the prospect of teaching Cora on her at-home school days, but I…
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Week 7, block 13 Buckwheat and block 15 Buzzard's Roost
This seventh week of the FWQAL, I am visiting my mother in St. Louis. We’ve been having our own quilt retreat amid the heat and humidity of the weather and toys and raucaus of the children. The two blocks slated for this week (blocks 13 and 14) were both fairly piecy while next week’s blocks are fairly simple. I decided I’d…
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Test Block for Kaleidoscope quilt
In considering whether to join the Kaleidoscope quilt along, I decided I’d better make a test block to see if I liked my fabric choices and the pattern. Below are the fabrics I choose to make my test block. I choose mostly darker values for my kaleidoscope pieces because I am not sure how the lighter values would look. For the…
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