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What in the world have we got HERE? A blog that I completely forgot about! Blank pages, missing years of quilting and...TERRIBLE pictures! Phone cameras have certainly come a long way since the 2010's, but unfortunately, I don't think my picture-taking skills have improved much. Since it's been a minute, what have I been up to? Let's see... Moved to a different house. Stopped quilting because, you know, life. Job, kids, life. My 50's were a blur. Got two of three boys graduated and mostly launched out into the world. [pandemic...ahem] Switched careers. Turned 60 {gulp}. Remembered that I love to quilt and decided that I deserved to take over my basement to create a quilting studio just for ME and all my quilty stuff! Remodeled the basement. Added a Clover, the curious cow. Hello Clover! Went from midnight blue and tan carpet.... ...to fresh green and white, with LVP. I have white inset cabinets - took the fronts off th...

Pioneer Braid is quilted!

So we've made it through Spring Break around here - took the whole week off to play with my kiddos and get Pioneer Braid quilted. Happy to say, it went great! My folks came for a few days so I could toddle off to the quilt shop guilt-free! First to decide on setting... Finally decided that the up and down pattern didn't make me too seasick after all. Left the 3 inch strip border on the center row and went with 2 inch strips between the remaining rows. I like how that turned out. Now my original plan was a solid navy border and going to bed before midnight. Around 5 PM I got this wild hair of an idea...piano keys. Now mind you, I still had the backing to prep and I didn't have ANY pre-cut bricks left. I'd literally used every single one I had won in the auction, plus many of my own scraps. You can see my "audition border" for the piano keys at the top - I only made it 10 bricks long, telling myself that if I didn't like it, I'd go back to the s...

First Quilt - Swapping Stars

After taking a long arm class last Fall, I quilted 2 quilts in order to get a little practice in. I also gave a top to a friend from the class so she could practice - what a treat to have her hand it back to me so all I had to do was put on the binding! Swapping Stars was a top that was ready for borders. I had a few extra blocks and decided I'd make a pillow tuck as well - they weren't my best blocks but they are made from some of my favorite fabrics and I decided they weren't THAT bad, particularly since I'm keeping this quilt. It's a very bright quilt, made by me and my quilting friends on a Yahoo group as a row robin. I went for a pretty simple block called Swapper's Star from Quilters Cache but I redrafted the instructions since my friends would be making 7 individual blocks instead of strip-piecing several of the same fabrics. I also asked the ladies to do something unusual - set it on point. I drafted instructions for this and they did a te...

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