Tag: quilting

Fabric Shops, quilting

Just How Does 17 Yards Of Fabric Get Stuffed Into a Mailer?

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I had ordered some fabric from Hawthorn Threads last week because I contacted my so now totally famous sister in law for some of her fabrics that might work in a One Block Wonder quilt.  She actually had to locate someone that still had this line in their inventory!  Fortunately, Hawthorn Threads had the two prints I… Continue reading Just How Does 17 Yards Of Fabric Get Stuffed Into a Mailer?

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Playing With Crumbs

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This is my crumb basket, the last resting place for all those little bits of fabric that I just can't bear to throw away!  I'm not sure it is actually possible to completely empty a crumb basket because there is ALWAYS something being tossed into it!  But I try.  I really do.  Sometimes I'll spend DAYS just… Continue reading Playing With Crumbs

Dealing with the unexpected, quilting

Catching Up! ~What gets done with convelescing dogs…

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(Updated...Wordpress deleted half of this post!  So I'm re-posting!) Hi Everyone! It has been a couple of weeks since I've posted so I thought I'd take a moment just to get caught up. As I mentioned in an earlier post, Holly was diagnosed with a couple of tumors.  Over many conversations I chose to have the… Continue reading Catching Up! ~What gets done with convelescing dogs…

16 Patch Double Pinwheel, quilting

The 16 Patch Double Pinwheel Quilt Has Borders, Ready For Bluebirds and Bluebells!

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Hi Everyone! As promised in yesterday’s post I have a picture of the 16 Patch Double Pinwheel Quilt project with it’s new borders! This was the first time I’ve sewn a mitered corner on a quilt top so I wasn’t exactly too sure how it would all go down but it looks like it came… Continue reading The 16 Patch Double Pinwheel Quilt Has Borders, Ready For Bluebirds and Bluebells!

Estate Sale Fines

A Fabric and Quilting Estate Sale – A Sewer’s Treat!

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Happy Saturday! (or Sunday for that matter, as I’m writing this Sunday morning…hee, hee!) Guess what I did yesterday?  No, I didn’t do the West Suburban 7 store Valentine’s Shop Hop that I was thinking about but instead, my dear hubby sent me a link to an estate sale for fabric lovers, and I changed… Continue reading A Fabric and Quilting Estate Sale – A Sewer’s Treat!

16 Patch Double Pinwheel, quilting, Saga of a torn ACL

16 Patch Pinwheel Project – Checking the Layout

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Hey Everyone, Well, there's enough 16 patches finished to start putting together a little layout.  Isn't this fun to see how the quilt will come together? I keep plugging away and have now figured out that a good size will be using almost 100 total blocks.  That's 50 pinwheels and 50 16 patches.  All counted… Continue reading 16 Patch Pinwheel Project – Checking the Layout

16 Patch Double Pinwheel

16 Patch Double Pinwheel Project – How to figure out the 16 patch size

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Hi Everyone...me again, I've been working diligently on this project and now that all of the Double Pinwheel Blocks have been re-sewn back together I want to make an equal amount of 16 Patch Blocks to use as an alternate block for this quilt. The problem that has come up now, is how do I… Continue reading 16 Patch Double Pinwheel Project – How to figure out the 16 patch size

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The 16 Patch Pinwheel Project – About all I can do is sit and trim

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I completed the ironing of the pinwheel blocks Mom and I took apart last week. These are the last of the spiral pinwheels and now they are all ready to trim. I've been using the 4" square to trim these up.This morning I sat and trimmed up a dozen or so and then pinned the… Continue reading The 16 Patch Pinwheel Project – About all I can do is sit and trim