Summer of Scraps – Week 2 Finally Complete!
It was a lot easier to make the first week’s scrap quilt in a week since I already had most of the blocks made. (I sew squares together to be leaders and enders when chain piecing and after a while, I get a few blocks made that way.) Week Two’s …
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Summer of Scraps, Week 2
I didn’t quite get this one done within the week, but it’s close. My 5 year old is very much into rainbows right now so that’s the inspiration for this top and she’s a fan of this one. “I love your new quilt,” she said the other night as it …
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Summer of Scraps, Week 1
Summer of Scraps has begun! I was pushing a little on Sunday to get this one done by the end of the week, but voila! one scrap quilt done. There’s a larger blue version of this on my guest bed upstairs. To make these, I sew blocks of 2″ squares …
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Summer of Scraps
My scrap basket runneth over and you know what that means? It’s time to make some scrap quilts! Earlier in the week, I told you I was planning something light for summer. Well, this is it, the Summer of Scraps! I’m going to focus on easy sewing this summer and …
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On the Auction Block – “Hello, Sunshine” art quilt
This small art quilt (approx. 10″ “square”) can be hung or used as a candle mat or under a vase. Yellow sunshine and rainbow border are machine stitched with cotton thread to a black cotton fabric background. I am running auctions that start each Monday morning. If you’d like an …
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#APQResolution – French Doors
I feel like I’m finishing up a school year and getting ready for summer because I have been finishing stuff up like crazy. Last week, I finished quilting “Rajah Quilt Revisited” which was a 2016 Block of the Month that I started in January. This week, I finished a quilt …
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#APQ Resolution – Rajah Quilt Revisited
This was supposed to be my finished quilt for March for the American Patchwork & Quilting 2017 UFO Challenge, but it needed to be completely quilted and bound so I’m happy to have it completed by June. This quilt was the 2016 Block of the Month from The Quilt Show, …
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On the Auction Block – “Elemental Symbols” art quilt
I made this 11.5″ x 27.5″ quilt as part of a challenge based on the word “symbol.” The colored triangles and the quilting lines within them are both symbols of fire, air, earth, and water. I am running auctions that start each Monday morning. If you’d like an email reminder …
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New – May’s BirdZeed Challenge
This month’s BirdZeed challenge word is “new.” I did not sit down with a blank sheet of paper and brainstorm what the word means to me as I sometimes do to get started. Instead, I was talking with a friend about taking a step and doing something new and I …
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On the Auction Block – Circles Art Quilt
Up for auction this week is a piece called “Circles” that began as a photo on cloth of a pink bleeding heart plant. I distorted the image by cutting it into circles of various sizes, which I then appliqued onto a black cotton background. I brought more color and balance …
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