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Progress on Paula's House Quilt
Here's the baby/napping quilt for my sister Paula in St. Joe, MI. She requested these colors, and I wanted to do Jacquie Gering'sOutside In pattern again, the same one I made for my niece and her new...
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Ants in my Quilting Pants
I could be working on my "Winter" challlenge - it's due mid-July. I could be working on my sister's house baby quilt. I could be working on an actual commission - the quilt made from children's...
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About that Aeroplane Bag
The Aeroplane Bag is completed, and I mostly like it. I like the size, and I like most of the directions - especially combining the different stabilizers, like Soft and Stable and Peltex. I'm not...
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Playing with a Winner
Here's a photo of Victoria Findlay Wolfe, a NY quilter who won Best In Show at QuiltCon in Austin, TX last February. She's a modern quilter who is, like so many of us, deeply rooted in traditional...
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Top 10 Signs of Procrastination
10. I'm thinking of taking my third walk of the day.9. I decide to do a process post of the coaster set I just finished. Hexagons, like baby bibs, are not the way I roll.8. My eyes keep averting...
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Rich Life
February 2012 my fabulous Chicago Modern Quilt Guild got involved with the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative. Since 2007 Ami Simms and her relentless crew of volunteers have raised almost a million...
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Aeroplane Bags - Completion!
These two Aeroplane Bags (pattern from SewSweetness) are complete. The pattern directions are good ones and easy to follow. With the exception of the zipper. Here's a little modification I had to...
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Wintersection
Wintersection has been in process since June, and today it is due - along with the other calendar challenges - at the Chicago Modern Quilt Guildmeeting. It is 36" wide, and the left side of it is 43"...
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Stash Busters!
An opportunity to go through my stash and create some quilts? (more about Chicago Modern Quilt Guild's Sew to Service Chicago charity later...) Fabulous. I'm going to resurrect one of my favorite...
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Just One More AeroPlane Bag...
Here's my third Aeroplane Bag, and it's my favorite. The body fabric? there was just enough. In fact, you'll see a little black gusset on each side because I ran out. This is the smaller of the two...
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Creating Trip Around the World Kits
Between Aeroplane Bags and Trips Around the World, it seems I have traveling on my mind when actually we have nothing but a little road trip to Kansas City in September planned. However, the Chicago...
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Trip Kits 4, 5, and 6
Seeing these kits makes me eager to start sewing. Stay tuned for some quilty loveliness! (Third picture makes me realize I need a different middle border...)
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Trip Kit #7 and a Process Post
Kit #7Sheets of StripsSome interesting batiksEthnic? African? I love this...
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Three More WOW! Duffel/Totes and an Aeroplane Bag in Process
These three new WOW! duffel/tote bags are all very clever and very sturdy. I'd provide a link, but all I know is that I bought the pattern from the Jinny Beyer web site. The pattern is clever, and I've...
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A Baby Quilt for ..... A House!
My sister's 5 month old grandson is leaving Manhattan for the first time and coming, along with his parents, to visit Paula and her husband Dennis, now and forever more to be known as Mimi and Poppi....
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An End, a Middle, and Some Great Beginnings
Well, this is a great feeling - to have scanned and shipped the final quilts for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative. Founder Ami Simms is close to raising $1,000,000 for Alzheimer's research. My...
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August
This baby quilt is for young August James who was born August 22 weighing 3 pounds 6 ounces. His mom Jen is fine and his dad Jim is, I assume, over the moon. The little man will be in the hospital...
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Pauline's Aeroplane Bag
Pauline, Wayne's mother-in-law, is taking a trip in October. She likes these cute little Aeroplane Bags, and really - who can blame her? Pauline asked for one in Black and White with a Hot Pink...
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Baby on a Quilt
Acknowledgements: Henry's parents, my niece Jen and her husband Tim, and Jacquie Gering of Tallgrass Prairie Studio for her quilt design and giving me permission to use this design. Again.
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