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I spent the day running errands, working on this new business venture I've slipped out in my last post and taking a trip to the Dupage County Fairgrounds for the Prairie Star Quilter's Guild Show! I'm almost official! I have just one last step before I can flip the switch and make the big announcement! … Continue reading A Day at the Quilt Show!
Hi Friends, Followers and Family! I'm not quite ready to make the big announcement yet, but if you've noticed my postings have been very infrequent there's been a reason. I have been secretly hiding from you my adventure of starting a new business! When the timing is right and all the legal paperwork finally comes… Continue reading Taking Product Photos
This is as far as I've taken it this week... The inner border is on and the 2nd border is still in the works. Turns out these quarter square triangles take a bit of effort to get the points perfect. I've had to re-sew about a half dozen and use a template to line up… Continue reading An Almost Design Wall Wednesday
A quick work-up in EQ7 and a check to make sure I have enough fabric and out comes a solution for the borders!Yup...should work!It's raining cats and dogs outside right now so I'm going to go upstairs and get this going!Talk to you all soon!~Cathy
Jim walked into the guest bedroom -which also serves as my design wall and staging area - looked at the wall and proclaimed "snowing in October!" followed very quickly with "hey, that block needs to be turned...". See if you can find the block he's talking about... This top was partially made up by MOM. … Continue reading Snowing In October – Jim Names a Quilt
Progress is steadily being made on this Scrappy Saber Sawtooth Star quilt. I sewed the flying geese borders on last night and this morning. Now the only thing left is the outer border! Whoot! I think the darker borders make the blocks stand out! Glad I went with that... Till next time! ~Cathy
Here is what's happening on the design wall... I have completely run out of neutral strings on my Scrappy Saber Saw Tooth Star. That's good news and sorta kinda bad news as I really DON'T want to make strings for the next border I had planned in the pattern. See the pattern below... All that… Continue reading Design Wall Wednesday
Hi Everyone! This is a super quickie project. One I've had on the brain for a while but just this morning decided to do. Headphone covers! I'm old school. I have tried ear buds and other ear pieces but to my dismay, those usually hurt my ears. Jim has some super monster noise cancelling headphones… Continue reading Headphone Cover Replacement Tutorial! – For old school earphones and people that can’t use ear buds…
I had no idea this 8 pointed star block was also called the Sawtooth Star. I guess it all depends on what you grow up with or learn as you learn your quilting. Apparently it's fairly popular...so nothing new here. However, just like the Churn Dash block quilt, this block is super easy to make… Continue reading Scrappy Saber Sawtooth Quilt Update!
Just to re-cap. Out of the fabrics I've pulled from the stash... I've been making these pieces into these 8 pointed star blocks... The combinations of fabrics are completely wild. As you can see in the photo above and below I'm having to push the fabrics to coordinate! In the above photo I've used 3… Continue reading Stash Challenge Progress
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