Finishing the Quilted Base

My project for National Quilting Day is a still life wall hanging. I completed the piecing of the top, and loaded it on the longarm to quilt. The idea is for the white quarter-square triangles to look like patterned wallpaper. I did the stand-and-stare for a bit, then dove in with the same quilting design …

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Stashbusters Final 2023 and Starting 2024

The Stashbusters Challenge has been fun for the past two years, and it is so easy to do that I decided to continue it in 2024. It is laid back, just report what you have brought in and sent out over the past month, keeping a year to date total. No, you do not have …

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Delivering the Cradle Quilts

This past week, a gathering was held by the Apple C0untry Woodcrafters, to distribute the toys to the agencies that will be serving the children. The room was set up with tables for each agency and stacked up with the toys each one would receive. Cradles, wagons and strollers with bears and quilts were under …

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Stashbusters December Check In

How are you doing with your Stashbusting? Holiday sewing may get us over the line with finished projects for Thanksgiving and Christmas, the New Year and winter, gifts and decorations. I ended up donating the harvest panels back to the guild freebie table, so one yard out for that. I just ran out of juice …

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Delivering the Cradle Quilts

Boxes came in last week every single day. I let them collect for a couple of days and then went to the PO to get them. This day were two boxes with a lot of little quilts! Thank you so much to Lori G who sent 7 cradle quilts, Carol E who sent 16! On …

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Stashbusters November

It's been five weeks since our last check-in, have you been sewing during Autumn Jubilee? There were certainly a lot of projects to use up some stash. Several projects in Autumn Jubilee reduced my stash. Using the lovely fall fabrics was delightful. First, 1-1/2 yards out for the Autumn Jubilee apron. Counting out 1/4-yard for …

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Cradle Quilt Update

The cradle quilt drive has been amazing. Before we began Autumn Jubilee, I did two updates with photos of the 73 quilts that were received in September. The month of October has been nothing short of miraculous! This will be a very long and picture heavy post, as there are more than 100 more quilts …

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Stashbusters October (A Week Early) and a Road Trip

Updating early because of Autumn Jubilee, today we check in with our Stashbuster totals for September. Much of what I worked on this month will not be completed until October, so fabric out was a challenge. But the fabric 'in' was a delight! You'll see a lot of these fabrics next month! Aren't they scrumptious? …

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Cradle Quilts Update

Happy Mail this week brought more Cradle Quilts for the drive. I am just blown away by the generosity of readers who not only make the quilts, but pay to ship them to me. One day there were five packages to pick up! How fun is this! And I know there are more on the …

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Stashbusters

Here we are, the beginning of September, just a few check-ins left to get that Stashbusters number higher in the 'out' category. For me, this month was a bounty of finds that were just irresistible. First, I needed some tone on tone fabrics for background, and the sale at Foust Textiles, a North Carolina textile …

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