For this year, I’m going to start featuring an Accuquilt die every week- at least that’s my plan 🙂 First up is this BOB die called Arrowhead It’s a pretty simple die with 3 different shapes on it, tiny squares, large triangles and a long chisel shape. Blocks finish 9″ I sometimes get to know …
When I first made the Bunny Slope pattern, I had actually cut out the pieces WAY too big with the wrong QUBE set, I made the top still but it just sat on the shelf for over a year, finally recently I got around to quilting and finishing it! This big honking Bunny measures 77″ …
I used to not like scrappy quilts, but now I love them! Maybe it’s because I have a lot more scraps??!! Also I think there’s a right and wrong way to make a scrappy quilt…. #1 make the scraps small the smaller the scraps, the better, even ugly pieces of fabric, can look good in …
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Happy New Year!! We had two families come over for a new year’s “party” and their kids, and a few more friends, it was a lot of people but so fun! I managed to stay awake until midnight!! the other two families left before midnight but some of the YOUNG people stayed 🙂 A “Funny” …
It’s the beginning of the year and that means I start planning my blog hop in march that’s been an annual tradition for maybe 5 years? I lost count and have lost some pictures since I got my new laptop. Anyways, the theme for the blog hop is “Dust off a quilt book” which can …
I just LOVE this bundle as Blue is my favorite color 🙂 This quarter’s bundle includes 6 coordinated Fat Quarters inspired by the main Blue Moth fabric. There’s 2 matching grey fabrics, one has dots, the other is called Fog. Then there’s a solid dark blue/navy and a plaid blue fabric and lastly a white …
It’s new years eve!! tomorrow it’ll be 2025!! and from a personal perspective, this year has been rough to say it mildly! With first my husband getting laid off in April, from his job at IBM for 23 years! Then his parent’s getting worse health wise and us taking care of them until their passing …
After getting my long arm fixed, I’ve been busy finishing up quilt tops and I’m completely out of batting now and only have ONE TOP left to be quilted that’s just missing the backing! In case you didn’t notice these on my 2024 list, here they are again. First are these stacked geese- I’ll turn …
Sorry I’ve been MIA this whole week On the 20th we went to the beach for 4 days, Bjorn brought his roommate for the weekend, then Nirah left and Bjorn stayed with us until Tuesday, we drove home, ended up needing groceries so figured we’d have the “fancy” Christmas dinner for Christmas eve instead and …
Solveig has been busy! She’s home for the semester from Meredith college, here’s a few pictures from her sculpture class. First is a reading cat, carved out of soapstone Next is a self portrait bust made out of clay, the assignment was to not do a typical face and add something different to the emotion, …