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New dishcloth...

I felt like being creative and productive tonight, but didn't feel like doing any quilty stuff. So I brought out my cotton yarn and made a new dishcloth. I've made several over the years, but have...

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Three projects...

Three of the projects I'm currently working on are hand-pieced, using 19th century reproduction prints.The priority project is my Indian Feathers. I need 36 of these "feather" triangles. I've just...

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A Finished Top...Woohoo!....

I'm a very slow and easily distracted quilter. Or maybe it's just that I like to take the scenic route! Yes, that's it!I started this top five years ago and had no plans for it to end up so big, but it...

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My first quilt...

I have no news, and no finishes on the near horizon, so I guess it's time to dig in the dusty archives.My first quilt. The name of this quilt is WOLUFO (World's Oldest Living UFO)I started this in...

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Where it all started....

My mom was quite a prolific seamstress. When I was very young, she made most of her clothes, and many of mine. We had several matching dresses. When I was in Kindergarten, it seemed like I woke up to a...

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Indian Feathers Update

When I started this project a year ago, I had hoped to have it finished by around July. Sure missed that goal! But at least I have finished hand-piecing all the little diamonds. Whew! Since I got this...

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Crystal's Garden

Nothing going on in my life right now that I care to spill to the world, so I'll share one of my finished quilts. (Huge number of quilts in progress, but finishes are few and far between).This is a...

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Thrift Shopping

On Friday I went out Thrift Shop Hopping with a friend. The weather was rainy and cold and awful, so we were done after the second one, but I am thrilled with what I found! I got about $400 worth of...

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Oh my stars!

Here's a picture of my 1930's stars, (started about 6 years ago) where I am at the moment. I'm handpiecing, and have finished 7 blocks since I pulled these back out of the UFO box. I love these! I'll...

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Finished a Christmas top

I finished a Christmas quilt top. Yay! This is the first top (or ANYTHING) I've finished in over a year! So this is a big step in the right direction. Now to just keep the momentum going.

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Hexagons

I'm back to being somewhat productive and alive, after quite a long "slump".I've pulled out my hexagons and have been working on them again. Between my hexagon blocks and my Tumbling Blocks, I've been...

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A new wallhanging...

I've finished a wallhanging, 24" x 24", 19th Century reproduction prints. Hand-pieced and hand-quilted. I'll be sending it to a woman who had to re-home her two African Grey parrots in December and...

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Tumbling blocks

I've been making good progress on my hand-pieced (Queensize) Tumbling Blocks top and wanted to spread it out to see how complete it is. This is as far as I got before the "helper" took over...

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Another wallhanging finished

Just finished another wallhanging...29" x 33", machine-pieced and hand-quilted.

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My first quilting disaster...

...well, OK...a "disaster" would be if I already had this pre-sold and received money for it, and had to make another one. This is more like "I'm not at all happy with the outcome".I sat down today to...

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November diamonds

I made 2 diamonds in November. I now have 11 "whole diamonds" (a few missing the centers until later) plus about that many more of the light sections.Two of the tan pieces look discolored, but that is...

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Slowpoke at work

Yes, there is a reason I have that "I'm a slowpoke quilter" button on my page. It's TRUE!Here is a project I started about seven years ago. I've worked on it on and (mostly) off throughout that time....

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The Onion

I was making chicken cacciatore and sliced open this HUGE onion. It was still attached just a little at one side and spread open in a picture-worthy way, I thought.The jars are some that my mom had for...

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Back, with a "finish"...

I'm back from a much-too-long break...and I have a "finish". My first since August, 2010.It's this Irish Chain, which was machine-pieced and hand-quilted. It's been my primary project for the last...

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Tumbling Blocks update

Someone asked me about my Tumbling Blocks project, and I realized that I don't have an updated photo of it on here, so here it is. This was shortly before I set it aside to focus on the orange and...

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