Help, Please!

23 Sep 2012 | Other RSS posts by
Many of you may remember that I am half finished making twin bed quilts for our guest room. This is the first one: I am in the process of putting together the second quilt. I have the same fabrics in the strip sets, but I was thinking of just cutting the strip sets into 6 1/2 " blocks instead of making 9 patch blocks. The first reason, of course, is just that it would go faster. The



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Category: guest room quilts, Nine Patch Lattice, Split Rail Lattice

Q3 Finish-A-Long Goals

01 Jul 2012 | Other RSS posts by
2012 Finish-A-Long


It 's time to make the goals for the third quarter. I hope to finish a queen-sized quilt, a twin sized quilt and a table runner this quarter.

First, the queen-sized quilt. I am planning to finally complete the American Beauty BOM. I have all twelve blocks made. I only need to make the sashing, sew setting triangles on the block and sew the sashing and blocks together and put the borders on. Then there is the shipping it



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Category: American Beauty Block of the Month, Fairy Frost, Finish-a-long, Split Rail Lattice

What I Learned on My Birthday Vacation

04 Jun 2012 | Other RSS posts by
I'm baaaaaack! Yes, I did post a couple of times early in the vacation, but most of the time we were too busy or too exhausted for me to make a sensible post. So this post may be longish with a few pictures. But, before I get back to my regular flow of life, I thought I would post a few things I learned.

First, I am a two week vacation girl. The moment this became obvious was when I was at the Happiest Place on Earth with the people I love the most and I missed my home.



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Category: American Beauty Block of the Month, birthday, Designer Mystery Block of the Month 2011, disney, Lottie Moon Quilts, Split Rail Lattice, Woven Links

Decision Time

19 Sep 2011 | Other RSS posts by
You may remember that I am making another quilt for the guest bedroom. You may also remember that I am considering making the batik blocks as Split Rail Fence blocks in order to make it go more quickly.

Now I'm having doubts. I am piecing the strips somewhat randomly, trying to keep a light, medium and dark (not necessarily in that order) in each strip set. As I have been sewing these together, I am beginning to wonder if I really should be making Nine Patch Blocks as I did with the first one. I am wondering if maybe



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Category: Nine Patch Lattice, postaday2011, Split Rail Lattice

What Am I Nuts?

01 Sep 2011 | Other RSS posts by
  • No, not because I am looking at blogger.com's new interface and wondering what in the world is going on here. 
  • Not because I am currently sitting here blogging instead of rearranging the basement/studio or putting the borders on the church quilt. 
  • Not because I am not handquilting right now or sewing my Split Rail Lattice quilt. 
  • Not because...well, you get the idea.
"Why, then?" you ask. (Or maybe you don't!)

Let me tell you. I think I may be nuts because this is what I have chosen as my first foray into paper piecing. (Well, maybe it was kind of chosen



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Category: postaday2011, Split Rail Lattice, Woven Double Wedding Ring

A Finish!

25 Aug 2011 | Other RSS posts by
I only have a minute to post this so I will just mention here that I finished the first guest room quilt! Yay! Of course, I still have one to go (more about that later, after the pictures) and neither of these was in my Quilty Resolutions list - but when I made that, I didn't know that I'd have a guest room of my own, so that is understandable.

On to the pictures. First, the quilt hanging over the railing overnight to be sure it is really dry.



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Category: Nine Patch Lattice, postaday2011, Split Rail Lattice

American Beauty BOM 7 Finished

16 Aug 2011 | Other RSS posts by
I am happy to report that today at work I had plenty of time to complete Block 7 of the American Beauty BOM. Only 5 more blocks to go. Then there is sashing and lots of other goodies to work with. My experiences taking pictures of this block really show how much bigger a 12 inch block is than a 9 inch block. (The blocks for the 120 Blocks project are 9 inch, in case you were unaware of that little piece of information.) So here we go.



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Category: American Beauty Block of the Month, Nine Patch Lattice, postaday2011, Split Rail Lattice