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… of developing a brand new quilt based on the colors of the blanket, I’m making more hexagon-ish units to for a lap quilt that started out with this star. My one problem with piecing a quilt is that it really makes me want to buy more fabric, regardless of whether I need it or [...]
It takes me forever and a day to come up with color schemes for quilts. So I decided I will try to record things with color combinations I like. This blanket, for example, which belongs to a friend I visited with E. E thereafter walked off with a container of lentils that she played with [...]
I forgot to post last night and nearly forgot today. It was a busy day again. After it was done the apartment looked like the cavalry hit. Or a tornado. Maybe both. But it was just the result of a constant effort to had the children something to keep them occupied so that we could [...]
After getting to the end of what one planned to do, there is always the question: now what? I like how the star below turned out but now I wish I’d fussy cut some of it. I said yesterday I planned to make miniquilts but now I wonder if I couldn’t make something bigger out [...]
Since for work I mostly make stuff, I relax by – you guessed it – making more stuff. Just different stuff. I really love quilts and have been slowly learning how to make them. A friend lent me this book and I had the idea to make one of the quilts out of it (one [...]
Haven’t been here in a while. I’m having trouble finding time for picture-taking, though I’ve been making things both quilty and garment-like. With a friend we decided to make this quilt from the Block Party book together, with one block due every Friday for show and tell. I still have to pick my color scheme; [...]
Here’s my first block for the Bloggers BOM quiltalong organized by Jackie of Canton Village Quilt Works. I love the fabrics and just realized that I really, really want to get more of the background, so I can make a whole quilt with it, and I have no idea what it actually is… I found [...]
Last week I finished a quilt top for a friend’s baby. I’m rather late with this quilt – the baby’s 3 months old… but maybe it’s better late than never, no? Here it is: It’s a New York quilt for a New York boy of a New Yorker mom – I always think of her [...]
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