tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79938729249620680262024-03-14T05:05:03.146-04:00Quilting LinesThreads of my life following quilting lines.Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00886998491080260330noreply@blogger.comBlogger231125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993872924962068026.post-48630983780019722522015-04-28T14:10:00.001-04:002015-04-28T14:17:02.461-04:00Multi Tasking<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have been pulling some fabrics to use with this die. I outlined the cutting blades with a silver marker. It really helps when placing your fabrics down to cut.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I did iron out the wrinkles after I took the photos. Now I just need to cut some strips from the fat quarters and yardage and I'll be ready to run them through the cutter. I decided to use batiks so the the right/wrong side of the pieces want be an issue in this very directional pattern. Of course the danger in doing this is getting the position of the lights and darks reversed in some of the blocks. I haven't decided how big it will be or if I will be putting sashing between the blocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So that's a little of what's going on in the studio. I've also fired up the longarm and am making progress on a quilt there. I'll share that when it's done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Linking with: <a href="http://www.conniekresin.com/2015/04/linky-tuesday_28.html" target="_blank">Linky Tuesday</a></span>Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00886998491080260330noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993872924962068026.post-10228952352722338812015-04-26T13:56:00.000-04:002015-04-28T13:16:21.297-04:00Bits and Pieces<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><a href="http://www.quoteland.com/share/Jerry-Seinfeld-Quotes/796/" style="background-color: white;"></a></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">No, I haven't fallen off the side of the earth. I'm still around and hopefully I'll be making my presence know a little more often here. When I got back from Texas I began seeing a nutritionist to try and get some help with a few chronic health issues that have been causing me to have very little energy and other problems. After 2 months on my new diet I am beginning to feel better and have a little more energy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">As I was explaining what I am to be eating to a friend a few weeks ago she said "Oh, I'm familiar with that diet. If it tastes good spit it out." Of course it isn't quite that bad. It's really a clean food diet, as organic as I can make it but I'm not too obsessed with that point. No gluten, very few carbs. I don't know about you but changing the way you eat takes a lot of time and mental energy. My husband and I had gotten used to eating out a little too often but sometimes we just don't want to cook. Now I am back to cooking more and eating a lot of salads. This and the more frequent trips to the grocery store have of course changed my daily routine more than a little.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I got the directions for this block off a blog a few years ago. I love the movement of it. I would give you a name for it and who designed it but I have no idea. The PDF was not copyrighted nor did it have the blog name on it. I know it was off a popular blog but I haven't a clue as to which one it was. If you know let me know. If you don't let this be a lesson that if you want credit for something... PUT YOUR NAME ON IT!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I have all the blocks finished except the Square in a Square ones are missing the final triangle. I left it off until I get them on the design wall and decide if I want to use the color layout that was in the magazine or not. The layout will decide the color of the last triangle so that is why I'm waiting. I'm using the hand dyed fabrics that I ordered from Vicki Welsh for this quilt. I had a set of 5 batik fat quarters that worked for the center squares. I'm not sure what I will be doing for the borders. I'm pretty sure I don't want to do the Monkey Wrench blocks that was in the magazine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I did use Marti Michell's templates to cut it out and it went well in the cutting and sewing. I know many people paper piece Square in a Square blocks but I don't see the point. If you cut them carefully they go together well. The magazine had templates for all of the blocks to be paper pieced but I didn't make them like that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I went ahead and finished the colorways. Since the pink and red, yellow and orange were both in the same blocks it doesn't follow the monthly colors picked exactly. I'm kinda curious to see how it will look all together. The only thing I didn't like so far is I would have liked a little more value difference in the purple blocks. They are together now and not likely to change.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Linking with: <a href="http://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2015/04/scraphappy-saturday-party-till-ur-purple.html" target="_blank">Rainbow Scrap Challenge</a> and <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2015/04/27/design-wall-april-27-2015/" target="_blank">Design Wall Monday</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here as promised are a few pictures from Quilt Con. If you have never been to a large quilt show you should make it a goal to get to one. While I am not a fan of large crowds I know there are plenty of shows that do not have the large attendance that you will find in Houston or Paducah. I heard that there was about 10,000 at Quilt Con but it did not seem crowded. Remember this is a total for all days and much of the time a large number of attendees were in classes or lectures.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a nice show but I was not crazy about the way the quilts were displayed in zig zag rows. I know that that creates more display space but I kept feeling like I was missing quilts as I walked down the rows. I have read similar comments from others who were there also. That was my main complaint. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I took pictures of the cards hanging by the quilts and they follow the pictures of the quilts so you can see who made them and what they had to say about their quilt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am refraining from commenting on each quilt so as not to bias you with my opinions or comments. I did like them all because I didn't take pictures of any that I did not like.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am back home again and have had almost two weeks to get my act back together and get some things done. Why is it that it takes me as long to get over my vacation as it does to take one. Yeah, I know I just slow. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So where have I been? I was gone for 12 days and I went all by myself! Needless to say it put a big dent in February. Well, I drove all the way to TEXAS! I spent a week at a resort and took most of 3 days to drive out and another 3 to get home for a total of about 2300 miles on the road. That's a lot of driving! Thankfully I had some great audio books to keep me company. I didn't know anyone that would be able to take 2 weeks off to go with me so I decided to do it alone. It was a good trip except for some rainy and cold days. I stayed busy, I took my sewing machine and more projects than I could possibly complete. I did get a lot done.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So why did I go to TEXAS? Two reasons: 1) We had a week at the resort that we would lose if we didn't use it and 2) I had decided 2 years ago that I wanted to go to QUILT CON so this had been a goal of mine for a while.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I didn't do any classes or lectures, just the show. The above were the few freebies I got. Below is my one purchase, other than food, from the vendor mall.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have already pulled some fabrics for the <i>Urban Beads</i> pattern. Looks like I wasn't as done with solids as I thought I was. LOL Any of you used this ruler? There are lots of patterns and if I like it I plan to try a few more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I did take some picture of the show quilts but I will share them in a later post so this one will not be too long.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here are some of the things I worked on while I was gone. Most of these are projects that have been going for a while and I am more than ready to get them done.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a Stack and Whack that I started a few years ago. I had about half the blocks sewn together and the rest were in 1/4 block units. Now there are 12 completed blocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This has been a travel project for me for about 4 years. It has lived in my travel bag for that long at least. Now all 96 blocks are made and ready to be squared up. Then they get the design wall treatment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I got all the 9 inch Churn Dash blocks made that I had cut out. For some reason that was just 40. I have cut out 2 more since I got home and then these will be ready to take a turn on the design wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 12 inch Churn Dash blocks came up 2 short too. There are 18 finished. It would have been 19 but I found a flaw in one of the fabrics. The remaining 2 are now cut out although I had to introduce a new fabric into the mix since I had done such a good job at stash busting with this group. I'll be glad to be saying goodbye to the old calicos in these two sets of blocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have shared this one on the blog a couple of times. Now there are 182 blocks ready for the design wall. I even got the new ones pressed yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have had this one cut out for a while. I cut it out at the same time that I cut out another one with these fabrics. I'll share the link back to it when these are pressed and look nice. They are from a magazine pattern called Cottage Romance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So you will doubtless see these babies again. Hopefully it will be soon. Now to give my fellow North Americans hope for the future and an end to this long winter. Here are a couple of nice pictures of what is in my yard now. These are late. The last few years they have bloomed in January.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can see there are still more to bloom. If you look real close you may see two pink hyacinths blooming in the center. They got a little nipped by frost this week. I'm hoping they will bounce back this week but we are to get lots of rain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">This weekend was delightful weather wise with temps in the 60s and 70s. Just hang in there and quilt away all you snowbound people. Spring IS coming soon!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I am finally able to report a little progress in the studio. Where did January go? I had way too many days that I was not able to get into my studio. I don't know that February will be any better since I will be taking a trip for about 11 days. That's almost half of the month. I will be taking my machine and computer with me so I may actually make more progress while away than I have been at home.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">So what has been demanding my attention? Well, I got to spend a little time with this little cutie. She is eight months old now but still not too big. She's only about 16 lbs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I got the remaining 5 checkerboard blocks finished for my quilt. Last night I even got them pressed. Now all I need to do is play on the design wall for a while. There is an obvious reminder of what happens when you sew with black fabric here. It grabs every loose thread and piece of lint it comes in contact with. Sigh.... I do love the look of quilts with black backgrounds but I was asking myself last night if I really wanted to have a black quilt on my bed. What do you think? You can read a little more about this quilt <a href="http://www.quiltinglines.com/2014/06/may-report.html" target="_blank">HERE.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have so many projects that I have started sitting around in my studio. I've decided that I want to get some of them finished and out of the way this year. This is one of them. The Scrappy Trips Around the World blocks that I started a couple of years ago. I had paired the strips for about 6 more blocks and had these three sliced up and ready to sew into blocks. I got them done and pressed. I can't say that I am all that thrilled with them. individually I like them but together they are very busy. I have tried to place a lighter strip in the center diagonal in each block.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The novelty prints in this one are fun! That is a very old calico in the center from the 60s or 70s. I think I made a blouse from it when I was in school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The cat faces peeking out at you are fun in this one. You can see the other blocks that I have made in <a href="http://www.quiltinglines.com/2013/04/new-fos-for-march.html" target="_blank">THIS POST.</a> The link to Bonnie Hunter's Free pattern is there too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I also came across a selection of black and white strips and strip units. Some of them are from a guild auction a few years ago. I was browsing through the quilting books in JoAnn a few months ago and saw a black and white quilt I liked. It was the only quilt in the book I liked so I didn't buy it. I don't remember who the author was but it was triangles cut from strip units like this. A narrow bright solid strip was inserted in the center seam.</span><br />
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Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00886998491080260330noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993872924962068026.post-70484195664172878842015-01-11T14:23:00.000-05:002015-01-11T14:23:49.099-05:00A Do Over<i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">This week I changed the hem on a pair of pillowcases. I made these for my Mother a few years before she died and gave them to her with a new set of pillows. After she died they came back home to me. They are made of a wonderfully silky feeling lawn. It might be a Liberty print, I don't remember. Since I have a king size bed I decided to take the hem out and add an eyelet edging that I had in my stash so they would be long enough for king size pillows.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Doesn't this list look like a great one for New Year's Resolutions? I have already done the first one a few times and a few others. Our year has been pretty soggy so far with more rain coming today. That's OK you need the rain to get flowers and rainbows but I hope it stops before I get too blue.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I started the year off with a trip to the movies with my two younger children. We had been trying to find a day when we were free to see <b><i>The Hobbit</i></b> and finally did. Dear husband wasn't feeling up to it. He has been a little under the weather the last few weeks but is finally feeling a little better and is planning to go see it today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The movie of course was great. I was a little sad when it was over because I have enjoyed all of Peter Jackson's journeys into Middle Earth so much and they are over now. They have made me want to take a trip to New Zealand too. If only it weren't so far away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I'll be back with more to tell soon. I need to get to my studio and work on something to share with you. I haven't even made it down there yet this year. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Welcome 2015! Whether I'm ready for it or not it is here! 2014 in now just a sweet memory so I thought I would reflect on some of the things I got done in the last few weeks as it drew to a close. This is a picture heavy post to make up for not posting much lately.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I found a cute snowman to sit on the mantle. I have a Santa collection but I didn't put it out this season. Maybe next time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I found some Snowflakes to add to the tree. They were cheap but I liked the way they sparkled so much I went back for some more. $4 for 20 of them but they added a lot to the tree especially at night. This little tree won't hold my Hallmark ornaments so we haven't even unpacked them for several years now. I used to do 2 big trees in our old house but there just isn't room in this one. I miss having separate living and dining rooms.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sorry about the shadows from the window but the quilting shows up really well. The rick rack covers lines that were printed on the fabric to divide the sections to stitch in. No they were not evenly divided.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Well, if you have made it this far how about one more? This one is an almost finished. I made this top back when I had my shop. I quilted the center several years ago but could not decide what to do on the borders. It surfaced as I was trying to put away some things and I decided to get it done.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was going for a glamour shot but I had not trimmed it yet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Misty wanted to inspect it for flaws. She might have found a few. ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The print is saddles, boots, ropes etc. Great for a little cowboy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I just went with a piano key border stitching. I quilted this on my domestic machine with a walking foot. I'm glad I don't have to do all that twisting and turning on my longarm. Yes, I'm spoiled but I can still stitch in the ditch better on my domestic machine. Ruler work on the longarm is still not something I have mastered yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Linking with: <a href="http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2015/01/happy-new-year.html" target="_blank">Crazy Mom Quilts</a> and <a href="http://blog.richardandtanyaquilts.com/2015/01/new-years-resolutions-and-laff-149.html" target="_blank">Richard and Tanya Quilts</a> and</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> <a href="http://www.confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2015/01/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-new-year-new.html" target="_blank">Confessions of a Fabric Addict</a> and <a href="http://fortworthfabricstudio.blogspot.com/2015/01/fabric-frenzy-friday-44.html" target="_blank">Fort Worth Fabric Studio</a></span></span></div>
Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00886998491080260330noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993872924962068026.post-68710586421559203512014-12-13T11:55:00.000-05:002014-12-13T12:39:26.904-05:00A Finish, A Mystery & Winners<i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.</span></span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I wanted to get my finished project blogged about yesterday but I spent most of the past two days in the road running errands. I didn't get everything done Thursday so I had more to do yesterday. I had an appointments to keep both days so I was afraid to try to start anything in the studio for fear of being late. Christmas shopping is almost done but I have a stack of projects for gifts that need my attention. Hopefully next week and this weekend will allow studio time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">My finish is one you have seen before. It is a charity quilt. I decided to finish it although there are some ladies who like to stitch the binding down in the group. That is a good project for some older ladies who don't or can't sew much any more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Misty was one of the reasons for so many errands. The groomer and the vet. I'll have to get a picture of her new haircut. You can see she was a little scruffy here. She is 10 years old and has been suffering from skin problems this fall. This is common with her breed but she has shown a little improvement this week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Last Saturday I had a spike in page views here on my blog, over 2200 in one day. I'm thinking that someone must have mentioned my blog on Instagram or Twitter because many used Google to find me. Any of you wonderful readers out there know where this sudden interest come from? Maybe some of my new readers found me that way. I'm just curious. It's nice to get some unexpected hits.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Welcome to <b>ALL </b>my <b>NEW READERS</b>!!! Even while I've been delinquent in posting my numbers have been crawling upwards. Thanks for having faith in my imparting something you want to read about. I am about to hit 400 on Bloglovin. I haven't check my other numbers lately but that is by far the largest one. I know others use Feedly, GFC or email to get my posts too. I'm thinking another drawing will be due soon to celebrate. How about one to start off the New Year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Most of my traffic lately, especially while I wasn't posting, was to check out my posts about Christmas projects and the Christmas Hang Out Linkys that I did the past two years. I have not done any promotion for one this year. I have been running them the week before Christmas. If you are interested in having one this year I will be glad to do it. I was thinking that a theme of <b>Table Toppers </b>would be nice. This could be anything from <b>Table Runners </b>to <b>Mug Rugs </b>or <b>Placemats</b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN LINKING UP PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW. The dates would be December 18 - January 1</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">If I have at least 10 people who want to participate I will do it. I think I would leave it open until New Years. That way the Christmas Rush will be OVER and you will have time to <strike>think </strike>blog again. If you have a tutorial for anything that will fit the theme let me know and I can feature it one day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">As I have done in the past I would have a Giveaway for those who participate. I will make a decision Monday according to those who comment this weekend. If I don't have at least 10 who are interested in linking up I will just skip this year and do one next year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Thanks to all who commented on the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway. I used Random. org to select the winners this morning. Here are the Lucky Numbers that came up. I will get the gifts on their way to you when I have your snail mail addresses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">We had a great Thanksgiving gathering! All my kids and grandkids were there. The turkey was beautiful (sometimes they look a little sad) and the food was all good.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">When I was shopping at JoAnn a few weeks before Thanksgiving I saw this fun fabric and it just jumped into my hands. I had to use it for something. I also have been exploring my embroidery machine and trying to get comfortable with using it. Here is what I made.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The fabric says Gobble, Gobble, Gobble and Gobble till you Wobble. I had some brown rick rack in my stash of assorted trims that I used in the edge. The turkey is from Anita Goodesign. I used batting in the middle and quilted around the turkey and around the inserted square.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The bib was a little big for her but she will be able to use it next year too. She is 6 months old now and they both have blue eyes. Cute little cousins don't you think?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I also made a nice tablecloth for my odd sized dining table but I forgot to get a picture of it. I even drafted the pattern so it would fit well. With the leaf in the table measures 56" x 76" and you can't find a one to fit in the store. Round ones to use without the leaf are either a little short or a little long. I use some of them anyway but need to make one that fits better. I have the fabric that I bought about 5 years ago but haven't made it yet. Now that I have the circle drafted I should be able to get it done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since I have been away from my blog for a while I thought I should treat my readers to a Giveaway. I am giving away patterns and there will be <b>4 Winners! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm offering a variety so maybe you will like at least one of them. If you haven't been to my blog before I hope you will take the time to look around. I post when I have things to share and since I didn't even post once during November I am a bit behind. I have made a few things and even finished them! Maybe the shock of actually finishing the things I started was too much for my system. LOL Either that of hitting the big 60 back in October has thrown me for a loop. Whatever it was I think I'm over it now and have a bunch of pictures of what I have been up to ready to share in the next few days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So if you like Santas, Angels, Trees or Snowmen you should like a chance to WIN.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The one above is for some little ornaments or a lapel pin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My followers, new or old, my leave an additional comment for a second chance to win. Just state how you follow my blog in a second comment. If you would like to say what you have read on it that you liked best that would be great too! </span></div>
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Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00886998491080260330noreply@blogger.com64tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993872924962068026.post-31346475684622579992014-10-20T12:23:00.001-04:002014-10-20T12:37:38.704-04:00Learning the Art<i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></b></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, I have been getting a few things done but obviously not blogging about them. October started out as it always does with my birthday a few days into it. This was a big one ending in 0. My husband and I went to the movies and then did a little shopping for me ;-) then he left me alone for the evening and went to a football game. The next day my oldest son hosted our whole family at his house for dinner. It was really nice for all of us to get together. With 4 adult children it is hard to make schedules mesh for that to happen. Soon it will be time for Thanksgiving and hopefully it will happen again. I'll be hosting that this year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I finally got a quilt loaded on the longarm and have been quilting it. I'm planning to get it finished this week. Here is a peek.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm doing a pantograph on it. This is a charity quilt that has been hanging around for too long. It is a fun one I think. I had fun making it last year while I was avoiding the stairs because of knee problems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I pieced the back and am trying to get the design centered more or less. I will see how good my planning was soon. Here is a look at it from underneath. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And a longer shot. Homespuns aren't everyone's favorite but these are fun and bright.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I also got my Soul Searching top finished. Yeah!!! I decided to depart from the pattern and added a row of Black and White strips between the blocks vertically. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I would have added two rows but it would have made it too long. That would have been more visually balanced since there are two squares between the colors horizontally.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have been doing these blocks each month with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I had big plans at the first of the year to work on 3 projects but I've only made progress on 2. That's OK. I think I will just save the other one for next year. Maybe I can get the 30s print one finished this year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Linking with: <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2014/10/20/design-wall-october-20-2014/" target="_blank">Design Wall Monday</a> and <a href="http://marelize-ries.blogspot.com/2014/10/anything-goes-mondays-80.html" target="_blank">Anything Goes Monday</a> and <a href="http://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2014/10/scraphappy-saturday-delving-into-dark.html" target="_blank">So Scrappy</a></span></span></div>
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Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00886998491080260330noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993872924962068026.post-47091222315980248712014-09-28T18:29:00.001-04:002014-09-30T13:51:55.942-04:00One of My Designs<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">At last I got something finished. It's finally a top with borders attached! Of course it still isn't quilted. I'll just add it to the que of dozens waiting for that attention. Obviously my creative strength lies in the design and creation department not the finishing one. I must have been thinking about something new when they were passing that one out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Want to see? I have thought about writing this one up as a pattern. Let me know what you think. It is not a complicated one at all. I just got hung up on getting the borders on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The triangles started out at 10 inches so the top is a large lap size. I need to measure it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This close up above show how the angle is continued in the outer border. This would look better done with different fabrics but I made the design decisions after sewing the center of the top together. This was designed on the wall working with the squares already sewn. I usually make up new designs in EQ7 and then go to the fabrics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't work with novelty prints too often but I have whole bolts of these. The tone on tones I only had what is in the quilt of the blue and yellow. I think I have a bit more green. I will use the small patchwork print for binding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now for just something pretty. Back in the Spring I bought 4 dahlias and this is the first one to bloom. It now has another bloom open. These were supposed to get about 3 or 4 feet tall. It is about 2 feet tall and the others are shorter than that. One other one has a bud. Hopefully we will see a few more flowers before frost. Maybe they will be bigger and bloom earlier next year. This bloom isn't as big as my hand. My Mother had some that were 6 or 7 feet tall and had blooms the size of a plate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We also planted a peony bush that also hasn't done anything but it isn't dead yet. Our hard red clay is tough on plants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">So that's my big reveal for the day. I also have the rows together on the Soul Searching quilt but I need to cut and sew the Black & White Prints I'm going to add for a horizontal sashing. I didn't get it done today because I took a nice nap.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">So let me know what you think of the top. I can't wait to read your comments. I also need a name for this one. Any suggestions?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Linking with: <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2014/09/29/design-wall-september-29-2014/" target="_blank">Design Wall Monday</a> and <a href="http://marelize-ries.blogspot.com/2014/09/anything-goes-mondays-77.html" target="_blank">Anything Goes Mondays</a> and </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ahhh!!! New fabric! The smell, the touch of it, the ideas and possibilities it ignites within our soul. Is there anything like a little retail therapy to a quilter or sewist? If you can't make it out to a store even petting the stash will get your brain firing with more ideas than you can find time for. But then if I didn't dream up new things to keep me going I would be very, very sad and bored.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">So I went to this show for a day. I usually go for several days but not this time. There were some really wonderful quilts there and enough vendors to significantly lighten my bank account. I think it would have been a better show if they had accepted entries of quilts for judging and prizes. The ones there were wonderful but I like to see what regular non-published quilters make too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">So what did I find to buy? Many things but not some of the things I had on my list. This little hedgehog potholder pattern was just too cute to pass up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This collection of prints really appealed to me! It's full of art supplies and quotes. Maybe it will end up as the art supply tote.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm sure you can see the appeal! These are all one yard cuts and they got very heavy to tote around the show. I also picked up a few kits and baubles for making jewelry on my Kumihimo loom. Can you believe there aren't any batiks? I will have to remedy that oversight in the near future or maybe I already have.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Linking with: <a href="http://www.conniekresin.com/2014/09/linky-tuesday_22.html" target="_blank">Freemotion by the River</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of course not all blocks are nine patches. This method can be used no matter how many rows or pieces are needed. I also use the same method for joining blocks into rows to complete the quilt top.</span></span></div>
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Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00886998491080260330noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993872924962068026.post-88882816000535876462014-09-20T14:02:00.001-04:002014-09-22T12:05:04.733-04:00Awake<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I didn't mean to be gone for so many weeks! August was a bit crazy with day trips and the need to run hither and hon for various appointments. My dear sweet doggie has been plagued with various allergies that made her restless and kept us awake for many nights.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">September started off nice with some of my kids coming over for a while Labor Day. The rest of the week didn't go so well. I had an unexpected trip to the ER with a kidney stone. Fortunately it was gone in about 48 hours but it took a few more days to get the drugs out of my system. Can't say that I enjoyed that experience at all. Pain that intense isn't fun at all!!! Needless to say I didn't get much done for a few days.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I made my last two Soul Searching blocks. I had skipped August because I wasn't sure I wanted another green. I love the orange one! Then after thinking about it for weeks I decided that I would make a dark green one.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So what do you think? Now I have nine made and can sew them all together. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Back in August I also made some more 30s blocks in green. Don't seem to have those pictures loaded from the camera yet so I'll share those later.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I went to the Quilting Live Show last week. I had wanted to go to Chattanooga to the<br />AQS show but after feeling poorly for a week I decided not to push it by being on the road alone. I think that was the right decision. We also had to cancel a weekend in the mountains because of my wonderful little kidney stone. Who knew that something the size of a split pea could cause so much trouble?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I managed to console myself at the Show with some shopping. I'll share pictures of some of the goodies I bought next time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've been making progress on a few other things too that I'll be sharing soon. I've actually been getting some borders sewn on to projects! This is a good thing! I would hate to show you how many tops I have that are all done except for the borders. I hope to get two that were design issues done this weekend. Maybe I'll get the nine Soul Searching blocks on the design wall too!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Linking with: <a href="http://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2014/09/scraphappy-saturday-orange.html" target="_blank">So Scrappy</a> and <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2014/09/22/design-wall-september-22-2014/" target="_blank">Patchwork Times</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well another week has flown by. Today has been a bit frustrating. My earpiece on my glasses broke and I so my view of the world is a bit cockeyed. Makes more eyestrain than usual and corresponding headache.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think it needs a small black border to start with. If I use the mottled black that is in the geese I'll have to piece it because I have very little left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This one I've shown on the blog before. I still need to add the borders. This curved piecing was a lot of work and I have been disappointed in it. I just didn't put enough contrast in the fabric choices to make it visually interesting. Up close it is OK. I just need to finish it and move on. The quilting may help pull it together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now for a look at what I have been up to lately. I have been on a bit of a reading binge for a few weeks but I have also gotten a bit of piecing done. I spent some time figuring out how I am coming on my Reading Challenge over the weekend and will be updating my list soon. The tab for the page about it is at the top of the blog. The Month Challenge is almost complete but I am not making very much progress on the Color Challenge. I need to check out some books with colors in the title at the library.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am so enjoying the Soul Searching blocks that I have been making for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I think I will have to make another one just because they are so easy and rewarding. This month is RED.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wish it would photography as bright as it really is. Some of the fabrics are slightly orange-red and they just aren't showing up that way even with my color adjustments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have also been sewing away at these 9 inch Jacob's Ladder variation blocks. The pretty little 30s prints aren't showing up in the photos but they look nice and bright in real life. The pattern calls for 48 and this is the ones I've done so far. I still have a stack of green ones to go as well as some repeats of colors I've used in some of these.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are some RED ones and a lot of pink and blue. I don't have much purple and only one peach. It's tempting to go buy a few more but that would not be using up what I have.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is the layout. If I turn the blocks like this and don't add the corner triangles there will be big white squares there. I'm still debating. I do like the pieced border although the symmetry is off. There are 2 dark corners and 2 white corners. Does things like that bother you?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Somehow the last week just flew by and so did this one. Rather than share what I've been working on I'll just share some of the flowers that are blooming in my yard. Then I'll show you what I'm putting in my Giveaway. One of the reasons for this Giveaway is because I passed the 100,000 page views and I have 324 followers through Bloglovin now. Thank you all very much for being interested in what I have to say and make.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Since I can't send you flowers of thanks I'll just share the pictures of the ones in my yard this week. After having these come up for 3 years they finally bloomed this year. There are a couple of new ones that have come up this year. Apparently they have to grow a year or so before blooming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We have several crepe myrtle trees and this is the largest one. It has grown a lot in the last year and has never had so many blooms. We are debating as to whether or not we need to trim it back so it doesn't overhang the porch roof.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The yellow cone flowers came up again this year. Not as many as the past few years but they are still pretty. The variations in the amount of brown in the different flowers is interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So the prizes I had selected back before the 4th got buried under some other things when we were cleaning up for the family coming over. They finally surfaced this week. I also came up with another one. I hope you like them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Northwoods Retreat</b></i> by Brenda Henning is filled with great patterns using the stained glass applique technique. I've used this method before and it works well. Good patterns for men are sometimes hard to find and this one has a great ones. Brenda is one of my favorite quilt book authors.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There will be <b>3 Winners</b> selected. <b>This Giveaway is for Followers of my blog only (new or old)! </b>To be included in the drawing leave a comment stating how you follow me <b>and </b>tell me what your favorite linky party is and whether you like to link up weekly or monthly. If you are a no reply blogger be sure to leave your email info.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Summer is definitely here! The temps this week have been hovering in the upper 90s and in the cars over 100. I hope all of you who were complaining about the long cold winter are enjoying it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">We started out the Summer with a bang of expenses. We had to replace the main floor AC and the grill. Glad we got it done before this week's heat hit! The grill arrived Tuesday and we will be using it tomorrow. All the kids are to come over and the grands. It's been a while since they were all here and they will get to meet little Maggie Rose.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I finally got back to my studio in the past week and added to the Sound Check blocks. Here is the collection so far. The pattern calls for 30 so I'm over halfway there. I've finished 3 more this week that aren't pictured and have the rest at least cut out and started. I think I'm over my crush on solids now and just want these finished and done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The colors aren't showing up very well in the photos. There is no yellow, that is a lime green. Each block is a color and black or a color and gray. I've got two shades of gray below and there is a third going in the final blocks. I don't think there will be any duplicate blocks. The same color may be used twice but it will be once with black and once with gray. A couple of the blues are really close in value though so they may look alike but they are different when side by side. This is a roll over for the <a href="http://vroomansquilts.blogspot.com/2014/06/lets-book-it-june-link-up.html" target="_blank">Let's Book It Challenge</a> since it is taking more than one month to complete.</span><br />
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The year is half over now so I should get going on what I planned to start in January don't you think? I'm trying to decide if I want to go to the AQS Show in Charlotte or Chattanooga or both. Any of you going? It might be fun to meet up.</div>
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For all my USA readers I hope you have a great <b>4th of July Weekend! </b>I'm planning to do a Lo Country Boil. I haven't tried it before so I hope it turns out will. DH is hinting for some cheesecake too. I think I better get going on the housework and grocery shopping!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I also finished this top. I told you about this project back in <a href="http://www.quiltinglines.com/2014/03/new-in-february.html" target="_blank">this post.</a> The link to the Missouri Star video is there too. This is a great project! Just two seams per block. It used a jelly roll and 5 inch squares. It turned out about 65" x 93". I may decide to shorten it by one row but since the fabrics are unwashed it will probably lose at least 3 inches in the quilting and shrinkage in the wash. I think it will be just about right for a twin bed. I don't plan on adding a border at this point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I finally stitched something on my embroidery machine. I did it on a small piece of white flannel and added that to the diaper like I did the others. The red ribbon accent set it off just right I think. Now I need to get some onesies done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The long cold winter this year had the amaryllis blooming along with the Asian Lilies this time. They didn't seem as deep in color this time for some reason.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This contraption unfolded on each side to hold a wash and rinse tub. The wringer is in the middle. It was the smallest model I've seen. There were some that were much larger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just think of having to pump the water at the well, heat it at the fire or wood stove and then move it to the wash bucket. Scrub the clothes. Rinse them, then hang them to dry. There would have been a lot of children to keep clean. Having baby diapers to deal with in the winter would not have been a small chore either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Are you singing 'I heard it from the grape vine' yet? I think these were in the McDonald's kids meals for a while. I know my kids had a few of them but I'd never seen this many. My other all time favorite commercial is the Taco Bell chihuahua saying "Lizard, Lizard". I had hoped that they would do another round of those with the new Godzilla movie but they didn't. We went to see it last week. It was good, it lasts over 2 hours so I felt like I was getting my monies' worth. ( I feel cheated by the short ones! )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just to prove I am a normal quilter here is a picture of the stash enhancement that found it's way home with me. Batiks and black and white prints. Alas there has been a few more purchases since these were made also. I need to get back on the fabric diet. There was also a Hoffman Batik strip pack that I didn't get a picture of. The rainbow stripe will make a great binding. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Exciting News! I went over the 100,000 pageview mark this week! I'll be announcing a Giveaway for my followers in the next few days. I've also written over 200 posts now and went over the 300 followers mark on Bloglovin. Thank you all for reading my ramblings!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I'm sure you are tired of waiting on me to tell you more about the quilts I found on my trip. I have had a busy week so I am finally able to get another post written. Thank you for you patience and nice comments. The thing about waiting for something is you may also get a few surprises along the way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Now back to the Antique Malls and a few of the more interesting quilts that DID NOT come home with me. I don't want to disparage another quilter's work but I would like to hear your thoughts and comments on some of these.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This one was hanging in the entrance of the first Mall we went into. The name of it was Satin Girls because all of the hair was made of shiny fabric. It looked more like poly lining than satin to me. The quilt was hand quilted and applique. The borders were at least 14 inches wide. You can see the close up below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This was a block I hadn't seen before. It has a nine patch center and then a Churn Dash variation around it. I want to draft it in EQ7 and play around with it some. I think it has possibilities. The quilt was quite scrappy with a large variety of prints. I love the navy polka dot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This one has me stumped. I'll have to draft it on graph paper. The blue squares were solid and inset so it is hard to tell where the block is. Anyone know the name of it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This one intrigued me also. It was made of different colorways of some of the same prints. It was used under an attractive display so it was hard to get a full shot of it. It was a strippy with rows of diamonds alternating with plain strips of the prints. I thought it was interesting and modern looking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've played with this one in EQ before I think but I need to look up the name. The blocks were framed with different prints. The contrast between the light and dark prints gave it a positive and negative effect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The side border was just odd rectangles added to make it big enough for the bed. I've seen that before for sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've never seen a kaleidoscope center in a pineapple block before. The blocks must have been over 20 inches. It is filling a chair seat. This could make an interesting quilt I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Red and White quilts look great even with great holes in them. So simple and stunning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This was the oddest color combo for Sunbonnet Sue I've seen. Acid chrome yellow on a purple background. I know it reads gray in the picture but it was purple. It was in good shape and just a top. Wonder why that one wasn't quilted? What do you think?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This blue and white block just sang out in this quilt. I don't think it was because of the other fabrics fading. The low contrast used was soft and pretty. I still need to look the block up, it looks like and easy one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The sashing and cornerstones are almost a big as the blocks. That's one way to keep from making so many blocks. LOL It works well in this one I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This lovely nine patch with the cheerful red centers. I love the points on the edge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's full of 30s prints that I'll never get tired of looking at. See the thimble?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is a boy rolling a hoop. Little ginghams and flower prints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Scissors and buttons and polka dots too. The blocks measure about 3 <span style="font-size: x-small;">1/8</span>" across. The quilting is finely done. There is an X in the nine patch blocks and a grid in the plain ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I bought this top. The piecing is neatly done and I loved the scallopy edges.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The stripes go in all directions which adds a lot of movement to the top. Here is a view of the back side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is a view of the edge. Two corners look like this:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let me know what you think about these 'quilt gems' from my trip. Which ones do you like the most and which ones did you have other opinions of. I can't wait to read your comments!</span></span></div>
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