(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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Pinked Charms Quilt
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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Playing with Color: Purple and Peaches
Linking up today with Freshly Pieced … I have all of these different solid fat quarters that are calling my name. “Play with me! Touch me! I’m so preetttty,” they say. Initially I set out to make my oldest daughter a purple and peachy orange pencil pouch because she is starting kindergarten (le sob!). But then I got distracted and…
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A Quilt for my Mom
Wow, it feels so great to actually finish a quilt. Not just a top, but a whole quilt. It has been a while since I’d last finished a quilt. Maybe since Christmas? At least a quilt that could actually keep you warm. There’s been little ones and quilt tops and blocks in the interim. I was trying to think of…
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