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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

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 […]

Iridescent sticker/skin applied to the face of a large sewing machine. Colors vary from pink to purple and bits of gold and green.

My gorgeous Bernina!

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A couple of years ago, when I traded in my lovely Bernina 790Plus in favor of the Bernina 790Pro , the only thing I was a bit sad about was losing the beautiful “skin” I’d purchased for it. Unfortunately, the lady who had been making a wide variety of skins […]

Two quilt blocks, each with a purple/pink batik outer star and with different inner blocks; one is a star in greens, and the other is a basket in pink and purple. Each block has white background areas.

A year-long plan

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I haven’t been very productive lately; I was busy getting ready for the holidays, and I’ve had trouble deciding what my next project would be. However, last fall my local quilt group decided to do a BOM, and we all downloaded the directions from A Quilting Life for their 2024 […]