This picture was taken . . hmm, I don’t know where or when this picture was taken but I think it was taken shortly after we got married or shortly after Chad and I moved to Kentucky. It looks kinda like my sofa behind us but I never had curtains like that. And, [...]

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Just a couple more things I want to share before we start. YES . . the first block will be posted on Friday, August 1!
On the instructions, for your squares, I may say:

Cut on the diagonal once so you have 2 triangles.

Cut on the diagonal twice so you have 4 triangles:

I will post the [...]

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With the cost of groceries skyrocketing, I try to come up with ways to cut back. I keep a magnetic pad on the side of my fridge and anything we need, we write it on there. Chad and Vince were always saying “get this or that when you’re at the store” so now [...]

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Remember I showed one block I had made on Saturday afternoon?  I got all the blocks finished Saturday night and Sunday.  Even though the blocks are all done, I’ll have to put them away and save the rest of this project for another day.

I had been wanting to make this quilt totally scrappy.  Being totally [...]

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Looks like he got plenty of sleep! But . . why is he in my quilting area anyway?

Looks like he maybe didn’t get enough sleep. Looks just a tad grumpy! Those all nighters with the guys are hard on a young man who likes 12 hours of sleep! And . . [...]

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Nothing was added this week!
Mostly I was quilting for others this week. I did get one of my own tops quilted so the backing fabric took 5 yards. I worked on a scrappy quilt today and think I used about 3 yards (that’s a guess), so I used 8 yards this week. [...]

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The only plans I had for Saturday were to sew!  That’s all I wanted to do . . sew!  Nothing was more important to me than sewing on Saturday.  The entire week had been spent at the longarm and I was about to die to sit down at the sewing machine.
Chad has a friend who [...]

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On the “Making the Borders Fit” post, Nancy wrote:
I am in the process of trying to make a border work on a mini-bowtie/SBS quilt top….. and so far what I want to do isn’t working. The quilt top is 52×68 right now…. and I wanted to add a solid color strip and then finish with [...]

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Do you ever get tired of sewing/quilting? I do not! That kinda surprises me because in my life, I’ve gone through hobbies and the only one that has “stuck” has been quilting. I’ve been quilting for 28 years! Not always as prolific as you now know me to be though.
If I [...]

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Vince is sick!  He has a sore throat.  When Vince is sick . . well, if you’re married, you probably know how awful it is for a man to be sick.
Remember that Vince was so sure my memory foam pillow was causing my eye problems.  It isn’t!  I’ve gone back to using it.  I am [...]

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