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Quilt top with colorful stars set on a white background with purple/blue sashing and borders.

Developments

Our local guild is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and our guest speaking on Saturday will be Sherri McConnell of A Quilting Life. As it happens, it was from her blog that the circle I attend chose this year’s BOM as a group project, so we’ve been asked to […]

Front of fabric case. Fabric is a combination purple and teal diamond shapes with a solid purple band across the middle.

iPad case

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I’m going to be taking my iPad in its keyboard case to a class in October, and I thought it might be a good idea to have a padded bag to hold it and keep it safe from possible harm. I had to make a tiny adaptation to the pattern […]

Colorful bag with a pale green background with large lavender flowers. Binding is dark purple. A small swatch of lavender fabric in front of the bag is what was used as the lining.

On the Go bag

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Having finished three quilts recently, I took a little break and made a bag. This one is called “On the Go” and is another fantastic design from ByAnnie. I did “edit” it a tiny bit, making it 1″ deeper so it could accommodate my sunglasses or what have you. I […]

A paper-pieced hummingbird in green, teal and dark blue flies above a brown branch with green leaf and on a light blue background.

Birds in the Window

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I’m making progress on finishing up my paper-pieced bird quilt, which is a very good thing, as I’m planning to give it as a birthday gift in a couple of weeks. Whew! Since the birds were designed with pieces to represent branches and leaves, I’m quilting the background with lots […]

Two colorful birds sitting on branches: bullfinch, sitting in a grey nest, and house finch.

And the final five …

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What can I say? I was on a roll and just couldn’t wait to see how each of these little birds would turn out. So here are the final five birds, all ready to be combined into a quilt top! My Bernina has really had a workout in the past […]

Four multicolored birds sitting on brown branches: toucan, cockatoo, parrot, pine grosbeak. Most have a leaf in two shades of green.

Four more!

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I’ve been having so much fun making the various different paper-pieced bird blocks designed by WonderFil last year that I haven’t been able to stop. I’d originally planned to work on them *only* at the monthly (more or less) sewing days sponsored by the local guild, but I keep making […]