Catching up on my blocks to week four… My original plan was to do blocks in a rainbow of colors and then arrange the blocks in a color pattern. As such I planned to do a color a week. Weeks 1 and 2 were greens and blue and Weeks 3 and 4 were pinks and reds. (Purples are next!) While…
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FWQAL Weeks 2, 3, 4 – Expanding the color palette
Farmer’s Wife!
Where to start? Well, one thing I knew was that I needed to finish some projects before I started any other projects. But I had been seeing these great Farmer’s Wife blocks around the Blogs and finally decided to join in the Farmer’s Wife Quilt Along. Really, it was my mother’s fault. She and I are both joining in the…
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Work in Progress Wednesday
A couple of weeks ago, I finally finished Cora’s quilt for her bed. It will be a twin sized quilt and now I have to quilt it. While I am looking forward to finishing it, it will be quite an undertaking to quilt. So, in the meantime to distract me from my quilting chore, I have some Amy Butler fabrics…
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Almost done…
I’m almost finished with Cora’s quilt top for her bed. Here’s a preview of the border. It will have a white border, then a turqoise, then another white. It will be bound with the same turqoise fabric. Almost done sweetie!
A little hand quilting
All along, I wanted to hand quilt my “Flower Garden” quilt with perle thread. Unfortunately when I tried earlier this year I was frustrated. Perle was a bit thicker so I wasn’t able to work with it like I could with normal hand sewing thread. Because I wanted to finish-my-project-so-I-could-use-it I settled for no hand quilitng. Last week I acquired…
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