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Wow, I’ve been busy the last week or so! I’ve been sewing away on the Christmas Cactus quilt, having set a goal of 4 blocks a night. It sounds like more than it really is. I have all of my squares and half square triangles cut and stacked, and I divided the pattern into 100 [...]
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Thanks to support from several commenters (and a little challenge from Lisa!), I’m working on the Christmas Cactus quilt. I made a lot of progress today – all of the squares are cut out, and strips are cut for the half square triangles.
That’s 748 two inch squares, by the way. Now for the 152 half [...]
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I have a couple of projects in the works. Actually, one is my mom’s project, but I designed it in EQ6 for her and then wrote out the pattern. It’s titled “Pauline” because Mom is making the quilt for an old friend named – you guessed it – Pauline. Mom’s actually making two quilts – [...]
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Okay, so it isn’t actually cut out yet. That will happen tomorrow. Tonight I’m just washing my new fabric purchase – an assortment of icy blue batiks from Moda’s new Let it Snow line (plus a couple of extras for variety).
Aren’t they gorgeous? I have a new quilt design – a very simple one – [...]
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Ugh.
No, that isn’t quite the same as “Bah, humbug!” I like Christmas, I just don’t like seeing all of the decorations before Halloween. Several stores in the mall started to put out their Christmas stuff while it was still technically SUMMER! Isn’t that insane? However, while I don’t like seeing the decorations, I need to [...]
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