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Milestones and Giveaways

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This is my 500th post. It’s not very exciting when I think that I’ve been blogging since 2000, earlier if you count our Germany Journal, but milestones deserve to be celebrated, yes? Also, I recently won a giveaway! Wasn’t I just saying that I never win anything? And now, twice in 3 months! So: Diane at From Blank Pages launched this clever thing a while back. Charming Travelers! It’s a charm pack (56 5×5 fabric squares) that she gave away on her site. The rules state that if you win the Travelers, you get to pick out whatever squares you …

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Sew.Quilt.Give. Bee Blocks

 

I have managed, just barely, to get my blocks for the Sew.Quilt.Give. Bee done and mailed off before running out of time. I’ve been much more behind when it comes to posting them. These were August’s blocks. We used this tutorial and were supposed to use a “muted” palette. Nothing quite like specific color requests to point out the holes in my fabric stash! I think these are more muted in reality. At least I hope so. Jenn recently posted the finished quilts from June, a baby quilt for a girl and for a boy. The quilts came out great, …

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Bee Blocks

 

Sew. Quilt. Give. made granny square blocks this month! I’ve been watching all sorts of quilted granny squares pop up all over Teh Interwebs since the beginning of the year, and this was such a nice way to get to know the block without committing to a whole quilt’s worth. Cutting out the squares for these two blocks wasn’t intimidating, although it’s probably a good thing I didn’t do the math until just now – if I’d known I was sitting down to cut 50 2.5 inch squares, I’m might have found it a lot less approachable! I knew I …

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Even More Siggies!

I’ve finished the 65 blocks for the Crafty Blackbird’s Siggy Block Swap. Assuming we don’t have any drop-outs in Round 2, I’ll have a bit more than 120 blocks to play with when the blocks come back to me. And then I’m done. Really. No Round 3 for me. I’ve got to focus on getting some of those WIPs in the sidebar done! There are some fun things popping up in the Flickr group as people start playing with the blocks from Round 1. I’m seriously impressed by the folks who have turned a pile of randomly colored blocks into …

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Catching up with the Craftsy BOM

 

Just when I thought I’d manage to get all caught up on all my Block of the Month projects, it had to go and become July. I’m now behind in all three BOMs, again, and likely to stay there for the rest of the summer. Quilting is a cold-weather hobby, right? Summer is time for garden projects and food preserving projects and doing-things-with-Caitlyn projects. Back at the Craftsy BOM, in April, the blocks were all about English paper piecing. I don’t think I’ll take this up an a regular thing (best wishes to all those doing FatQuarterly’s English paper piecing …

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Mailbox Goodies!

I got fun mail! Want to know what made it extra fun? I won it! I never win things! Back in early June, Jackie at Canton Village Quiltworks showed off a newly finished quilt and requested name suggestions. I commented with the first thing that popped to mind (“Salt Water Taffy”) and Jackie chose me as the runner up. Squee! Seven fat quarters in batiks (my fave!), in colors from the palette Jackie used in her quilt, now officially named “Berries Jubilee”. I’m keeping these beauties in their bundle for now… it seems appropriate that I use them for some …