April 2011

Buttons Added

April 30, 2011

The Monochromatic Challenge and UFO Challenge buttons have been added back to the sidebar. I’ve checked them on both IE9 and Firefox and they seem to be working. If anyone has a problem with the blog not appearing correctly, please let me know. Since I can never remember which number is which quilt for my [...]

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Brown Top Quilted

April 30, 2011

This quilt is going to be a gift for someone who likes all things railroad. He’s taught me a lot about the old days of trains . . very interesting! I can’t remember where I got it . . maybe at Paducah last year but when I saw this fabric, I knew I needed it [...]

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Monochromatic Challenge

April 30, 2011

The color for May is RED. There’s probably less red in my stash than anything else but I’m so looking forward to this color. Maybe it’s all the talk about the red and white exhibit that’s been going on. I think I’ll work real hard on getting something really pretty designed for red . . [...]

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Fiesta Sunrise is Quilted

April 29, 2011

The last time I checked the votes before starting the quilting, the results were about 50/50 with Spiral Square just a couple of votes ahead. It was interesting reading your responses about how you choose your designs and what you would or wouldn’t use. Maybe since I no longer quilt for others and 99.9% (or [...]

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Road to Brownwood Instructions #2

April 29, 2011

Today we’ll make some half square triangles. Please use your favorite method. Since I didn’t need a bazillion of these, I just made them by cutting the squares 1″ larger than the finished size of the half square triangles and trimmed them to the correct size. Do whatever suits you! These will need to be [...]

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Bridge Hunting Trip

April 29, 2011

We’re about to make our first road trip to Brownwood. In the beginning, this was planned to be a house hunting trip but we’ve given up on finding a house. We’ve even resorted to looking for mobile homes or raw land or a cabin in the woods. Nothing! The house I had mentioned that had [...]

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