Sorry, Kel’s Quilt. You are no longer my favorite. This is my new favorite. Why? Why not! I love the triangles. I love the pastel colors. I love the fact that the front is entirely from scraps…and the back is a pale blue houndstooth patterned bedsheet Great Grandma Blue Grass gave me. AND! Its my [...]
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First, a boyish one. Just a simple design. What inspired me to make this one? The desire to use up some big pieces and get rid of some oddballs. Next, my first experiment with triangles! More like pinwheels, I guess. I am kind of anti-triangle. (I am anti-lots of things…I know. But it works for [...]
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I tried really hard to fix it, and I really had high hopes for it…but I am officially calling this quilt a failure. I tried to do a spiderweb, pie shaped thing, and it took a long time to piece it together. But the more pie slices I joined, the more obvious it became that [...]
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From here on out, the quilts arising from my special Quilt Project will be decidedly “odd.” I am down to mostly small printed pieces and no solids or neutrals, other than some gray and white. Whats left is pretty picked over and I am getting tired of looking at it. I am making some unfortunate [...]
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Yesterday the kids had the day off of school and were invited to spend the day with Mamaw and Papaw. So, I decided to get some real work done on my quilting project. I rented 4 movies (Win Win, The Switch, Blue Valentine and Arthur) and hand stitch bindings on these babies! This one you [...]
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A few quilts I have in progress. All of these still need to be sandwiched, quilted and bound….. First, something I am calling “The Great Pumpkin” because it uses Halloween fabric and reminds me of Charlie Brown’s shirt. Looks like this one will be a small one. I didn’t have a lot of these fabrics [...]
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Well, I didn’t. It just takes a while to have anything worth showing off…ppphhhhbbbbbtttt! I have made 5 quilts so far. Two are doll sized and 2 are baby sized and 1 is toddler sized. Each one is made entirely from my existing scraps. Each was made freestyle with no real pattern, perhaps just an [...]
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I have been quilting a lot recently. I find myself making 2 quilts out of each fabric combo, because I am too cheap to throw the scraps away and I hate adding to my fabric stash of left-overs. I hate adding to my fabric stash so much that I have decided to undertake a bold [...]
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I finally sewed something again! Yep. 2 Somethings, actually. I made 2 Ghost Pillowcase Dresses! I saw them at SugarBee and decided to give it a whirl. I had a bunch of white King size sheet sets downstairs, left over from what I bought for the couch slipcovers. With a little digging, I found 3 [...]
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Rather than gifts, we had collected things for the animal shelter at Pookie and Geetle’s birthday party last week. As our contribution, we made a bunch of simple cat and dog toys. These are a great way to use up extra fabric and super easy to make. 1. Braided Pull Ropes. You can make these [...]
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