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Completed Postage Stamp

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Remember my postage stamp quilt from PS I Quilt’s Postage Stamp Quilt Along? I’ve finally got this one all wrapped up! I put the borders on the quilt top ages ago, got it all prepped for quilting, and then I must have gotten busy. I remember doing the straight-line quilting in the center and then intending to free-motion quilt the blue border. Of course, I would have needed to free-motion quilt something else to figure out how to do it properly, since the last time I tried I ended up with a knotty mess. So the quilt sat and sat. …

Caitlyn, quilts, sewing

How is it the End of May?

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Sure, I know I’ve been busy, but gee whiz already, surely Father Time could slow down a little bit? Well after KCW wrapped up, I finished this pair of shorts for Caitlyn. I used up some stashed denim of unknown vintage and a fat quarter in red, so it’s definitely stashbusting even if I’m not on theme for May. I used the pants portion of McCall’s 6389, changing the waistband, shortening them up and adding the cuff detail. No pockets, though, which I might regret if Caitlyn keeps collecting rocks when she wears these. Guess who gets to carry the …

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Collecting Blocks

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These beautiful things have been sneaking into my mail box for the last 6 weeks or so as the ladies of Sew.Quilt.Give. finish their block assignments for March. I’m waiting on a few more, but I’ve already collected 24 blocks. With my current layout plan, this is either going to be a redonkulously huge quilt or potentially two quilts. No way is this project going to be done by the end of June! In the meantime, I’ve finished the April blocks. These are super easy and quick! We’re doing a version of the Lemon Squares quilt, which isn’t that far …

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One at at time

 

Not that it will do me any good, but here goes: Start no more than one Block-of-the-Month project per year. I mean, really. What was I thinking? Three BOMs at a time, plus a monthly bee? And my Wardrobe Improvement Project? And everything else: Caitlyn, garden, house, work? Next time, someone please say something! Anyway. I’ve finally finished all the official blocks for In Color Order’s Half-Square Triangle BOM. I seem to have lost steam with it back in June. Or at least, that’s when I last posted about this project. This is October’s block. I seem to have it …

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One More Reason to Love the Internet

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The crazy quilt I posted about a few weeks ago is on it’s way to a new home! I can’t even begin to fathom how this would have gone if there were no Internet. Probably the challenge of finding a good home for this quilt would have ensured that it continued to live under my sewing table. Instead of writing a blog post and a small collection of emails, I would have had to print actual, physical photographs and write actual, physical letters to strangers asking for help. Not to mention that I wouldn’t have had the slightest idea where …

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New Home Needed for Possibly Antique Crazy Quilt

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Back in the early-mid 1990s, my grandmother gave me a quilt top, since I was into quilting. I think she may have picked it up at a garage or estate sale, but I don’t know for sure. It’s a traditional crazy quilt, with hand-embroidery around the edges of every single piece of fabric. The time and love that went into making this is a bit mind-blowing. The fabrics are all over the map, but they tend toward the satin, silk and velvet. Some of them look like they started life as ribbons. Not all of them have held up so …