My Own Quilts

Queen of Procrastination

August 31, 2006

No doubt I’m not quite normal! I love to quilt! I love to piece, I love to quilt, I love to make feathers . . so why do I put off the things that need to be done? I had this one quilt to be quilted. It’s called “Heat Wave” and it has some snail’s [...]

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On the Road Again

August 30, 2006

These two quilts are headed off to EQ to maybe be used in an upcoming episode on QNN. These quilts will be given to my great nieces, Taylor (with the pink borders) and Katlin (with the purple borders). There’s a third quilt for Payton but it isn’t quilted yet. Both quilts were pieced totally from [...]

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X’s & O’s

August 29, 2006

Thanks Tonya for such a fun project. I had so much fun doing this. Everything for this quilt came from the stash. I was getting low on reds so I pieced the red borders. Didn’t realize the one on the right had such a light/bright in with the darks. Kinda makes it look pink but [...]

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Success and Failure

August 26, 2006

Try as I might, I can’t convince myself that August is history. I agreed to buy no fabric in August. Today is August 27. August is almost over, right? But, almost doesn’t count and . . I bought fabric! Let me defend myself before you pass judgment on me. First, I’m doing Tonya’s X’s and [...]

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Alternate Block Choices

August 26, 2006

Last week when I was in a state of “can’t believe this is happening to me” about my blog not working, I decided that instead of doing what I should have been doing . . . Quilting the last two quilts for the book Binding the 12 remaining quilts for the book Making three quilts [...]

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My First Quilt

November 14, 2005

Finn’s post encouraged me to dig out my very first quilt! Back in the early 80′s, I was trying to find something to occupy my time during lunch one day. Shopping was my favorite thing to do back then and I came across a little quilt shop. I had always loved sewing and had played [...]

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