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Did you get all your blocks done and your top assembled? Today, I'll show you how I custom quilted mine. This project is small enough to do some wonderful free motion quilting on your domestic machine or your longarm. The challenge with this one is to step outside your comfort zone and try something new. …
Continue reading Oh, My Strippy Stars! Quilting and Finishing
In spite of the very hard freeze we got two nights last week, it seems that spring is coming anyway. Out front, our redbud tree is beginning to show its lovely purple/pink buds. We had to cut several limbs off it last year, so I am hoping it will look nice still this year. I …
Continue reading Sunday Chat – Spring, a Drive, and the Garden
Last week and this week, the Safelight Project was finished up. In the mail in the last days of the project, more case sets arrived from some wonderful readers. These lovelies came from JoAnn S and Joan S. These arrived the same day from Holly S and Chris L. And these wonderful sets arrived from …
Continue reading Safelight Project 2023 – Completing the Project and Delivering the Gifts
Are you having fun with this quick quilt-along? This week we assemble the blocks and the top. It will go faster than you think, because we'll do the sashing at the same time. Curious? Read on! Start by pairing up all your half square triangles, and sewing them togehter in a flying goose formation with …
Continue reading Oh, My Strippy Stars! Block and Top Assembly
It was a rainy day on Friday, and I needed to do a bit of baking for My Sweet Babboo. I had some fresh blueberries, and decided to use up a pound cake mix I'd purchased for the Mountain State Fair competition last year but didn't use. Ridiculously easy, I just mixed the 16-ounce pound …
Continue reading Sunday Chat – Baking, Gardening, Stamping and Quilt Goal
I said last month that I'd talk about how my cooking has changed from my early days of meal preparing to how I cook now. When I was a new bride, my recipes consisted of mostly casseroles, with heavy reliance on canned soup for sauces. Vegetables were canned or frozen for the most part, and …
Continue reading Cookbooks, Recipes, and Chicken Salmoriglio
Ready to learn how to get half square triangles out of jelly roll strips? It isn't hard, but you will have to be very careful doing these, as the cuts will be on the bias rather than straight of grain. Don't be afraid, let's take it one step at a time. Begin by carefully pressing …
Good morning. Let's start off the day with a nice photo of the pear tree in bloom. I went out when the sun came out earlier in the week to get a better shot of the lovely white flowers with the mountain background. It is something to help your mood this morning as we all …
Did you get all your half square triangles done? Ready for the next step? For those just now finding this mystery quilt along, click on Scrap Dance Quadrille Step 1 for the overview with fabric requirements and cutting instructions, and then on Quadrille Step 2 for the first sewing step. Today, we begin making units. …
The past two weeks have seen much progress in our Safelight Project. For new readers, once again we have come together as a community to assemble spa bags for new residents of our local domestic violence shelter. The spa bags go a long way to making a difficult transition a little better, providing much needed …
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