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Summertime Crows
The countertops in my 'new to me' kitchen are black. So I want to cozy them up. That means a new table topper for my farmhouse table. This is wool applique on cotton fabric. I decided not to center...
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Sunflower Gatherings - Two Blocks left.....
When I'm too tired for anything else, I reach for my sewing basket.There are more wool pieces to add. They overlap onto the setting squares on each side of the block. Right now they are neatly safety...
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Recipes in the Mail
For both my girls ---Chelsey and Carolyn. A new recipe---I could have called and told them about it. I could have sent it in a text or an email... but I wanted them to have the card with handwritten...
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A Box of Crayons...
That is what this reminds me of. It's pieced but not pressed or quilted. I want to completeit with the black print for binding and ship it to my mom. With a red splatterware pitcher, it will be...
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He has No Idea.....
Truthfully, he has no idea just how talented he is... We finished remodeling the kitchen. (Details-- next post). With the additions and subtractions, we realized my buffet and dish shelf no longer...
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Lessons Learned...My New Kitchen
I thought it was going to be a four week project....It wasn't. Try six months. But it was so worth it.Introducing -- My new kitchen....The photos were taken from my cell phone. My camera battery...
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And then there were Strawberries....
While it may not be strawberry season-- it is definitely a strawberry quilt cover-up season. I started this piece in January with a couple of quilting friends. I believe one used thirties prints and...
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Wool Applique
Hand work is my permission slip to sit still on the couch and listen to television at night. Don doesn't get how I can be into a tv show without actually seeing it. I don't know. It just works for...
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.....
The seasons are changing fast.... Autumn is in full swing.I run my two pups daily and seldom do I come home without a leaf, an acorn, a dried branch of something.A perfect time for quilts. Quilts on...
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Bottom Rows....
I loved Sunflower Gatherings from the minute I first saw it. A 2014 Summer Block of the Week program, I had to have been one of the first ten people to sign up. I was enchanted with the dragonfly....
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Borders
I was ready to move onto the borders for Sunflower Gatherings. I hadn't read ahead much. Figured on cutting four lengths and beginning the last of the wool applique. I opened up the last package.I...
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Article 1
Memorial Day -- finishing off a 3-day weekend. Today has been sunny and 82 degrees. Beautiful. The other two days have been cloudy intermittent showers --- permission to quilt. I have always followed...
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The Yellow Quilt
83 hours later - It's finished. Granted, the 83 hours was over a span of two years, but I'm still just as proud of it.The quilt started off as an experiment to see exactly how long does it take to...
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Billy's Shirts
The baby quilt was pieced and quilted and sent on his way. Made entirely of a friend's son's shirts who was a volunteer fireman. He was to be Uncle Billy to a new generation of Pestor babies. Taken...
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A quilt called Black Birds
DNA demanded it…. Chelsey’s started quilting. While I felt like she labelled me as the ‘dork’ of the family—Quilting has become the ultimate in cool. It’s been a great bonding moment for both of us....
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Falling Charms
The clock on summertime is ticking…. I was picking up in my sewing room when I came across 3 Blackbird Designs charm packs. Beach House is the fabric line. Love then name, love the colors, the feel of...
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Rainy Day ---
Never leave home without it..... a hand sewing project.It's been raining off and on this afternoon. I've been enjoying myself --- catching up with Carolyn and hand stitching on wool applique.Hoping...
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The Magic of Christmas...Sorta
Lisa Bongean of Primitive Gatherings is holding a stitch Along for Christmas here. Chelsey and I have decided to work on the blocks. I want my quilt to be bigger so each block pattern I'm making two....
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Bliss....
It's a Quilt. Finally completed-- Binding and all. A Brenda Riddle pattern, Bliss, it is called. I completed the center in January and procrastinated about the border. It was a new technique. I...
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Wild Goose Wednesday
In typical fashion--- I'm late to the party.... But I'm still playing. My favorite quilt blocks are the North wind and just about any variation of a flying goose block. Never fails-- it is what my...
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The Barn Quilt
I may not own the barn... but I have the dream and the quilt for it. It's a North Star block. Don is going to frame it for me in gray weathered wood and I'll hang it in my house. I had wished for one...
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A Gaggle of Geese
You always have time to do the things you put first. Well, in my life--it's not quilting. I work full time, have a home to take care of along with two high maintenance pups that think they are people....
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Written 3-19-2018 --
Written 3-19-2018 --Dementia. Saying it out loud. Writing it on pretty paper, typing it on a keyboard doesn’t make it any easier to deal with – my Mom has it. Her Mother, my Grandmother, showed...
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