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Friday, March 30, 2018

cutting and sewing

I found the magazine/pattern for Holiday Party and it is all boxed, labeled, and put in the project shelves. That is Christmas quilt #3. I am cutting for #4 Homespun holiday. I found it in Quilt magazine Nov/Dec 2013.

I had to try sewing the little friendship stars. They are 4 1/2 in unfinished, but they can be trimmed to smaller.

I am linking to:

TGIFF

Finished or Not Fridays

Whoop Whoop

crazy mom quilts

Monday, March 26, 2018

carolina crossroads borders

I have progress on my quiltville mystery challenge. I have added the blue borders to Carolina Crossroads. I used a special hint from Jo Kramer of Jo's country junction to measure by draping the top over the longarm frame bars. Wow! It sure saved my back, and was very easy, and I felt like I was doing a good job. I have improved my relationship with borders before through practice, but this is wonderful for me. I might even say I like adding borders.....I might

I have cut the green and gold, and neutrals for Holiday Party. As soon as I find the magazine again - it has wandered off - I will be able to put it all in a box with label for another day.

I have a quilting friend that sent me these, enticing me to swap with her. It worked. We are going to swap 60 each. She is the fussy cutter queen. Aren't they cute? Do you swap with others? I am thinking, as soon as I have the last Marie Webster block hand stitched, I can sit in the evenings with hubby and cut them while watching TV.

I am linking to:

Jos country junction

Making Monday link in sidebar

Moving it Forward Monday

main Crush Monday link in sidebar

show and tell monday

design wall monday

boms away link in sidebar

Thursday, March 22, 2018

more spring -more Christmas

It's trying very hard to be Spring. Me too. I had ice cream at dairy queen yesterday, and noticed that they had free cones on March 20th. I guess I was a little late. But it was still yummy. The weatherman says we could have a big snowstorm this weekend. It can try to spoil Spring, but it can't.

Still cutting my Christmas fabric. I have loved everyone's comments and stashes. One minute I am singing a happy dance, because I have the coolest fabrics in the universe, and the next minute, I am grumpy because I will never get it all sorted and certainly not in one lifetime. But, today, this minute, I am busy cutting for a quilt. It is called Holiday Party and is in American Patchwork and quilting magazine December 2016 issue.

It uses 1 1/2 inch strips and I have some lime green greens. I have cut the reds ( and my finger)

I really liked the solid khaki color with the red and greens in the quilt, so I searched my stash, since I am trying to downsize, and I found 2 perfect pieces, but neither was big enough, And I didn't want to combine them. sigh.....Time to think...