Wednesday WIP

Still quilting on Joanna’s Chicks!

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Stash & Quilting Report

Incoming Yardage to date: 75 yds.
Outgoing Yardage to date:  56.25 yds.
Total Stash Busted to date: -18.75 yds.

Ok, so my time in the positive was short lived.  But I love my new batiks! (see previous post for the full disclosure with photos you will drool over) So, I’m not feeling too bad about it.  Ok, not [...]

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The Stash

Judy has challenged us to post pictures of our stash.  I’m game.

This is more fabric, and my magazine stash, and the very bottom box is more fabric that I have set aside for two different quilts I plan to make.  Someday.  One is a chicken theme quilt, and you can see the rooster fabric in [...]

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And the Butterfly Emerges!

Remember the caterpillar post from a couple of weeks ago?  I’ve been watching the chrysalis, checking on it everyday.  I went to work this morning, came home at lunch and found this:

Beautiful!!

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Stash & Progress Report

First, I will get my complaining and whining out of the way.  I had great intentions to get so much accomplished this weekend.  Then wham! Wake up Saturday morning, early, with a headache.  Get up, take Imitrex, back to bed, next time I wake up it is after 9! And I still feel cruddy.  Head [...]

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I love my STASH!

Friday afternoon my Mom called to tell me a dear friend of ours has been diagnosed with breast cancer.  And, being the quilter that I am, I ran straight to my stash.  Oh yes, she must have a quilt!  I had a stack of 5″ pink charm squares, and this is what I did with [...]

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The center is complete!

I think the next step may take me awhile

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Caterpillar Post!

I haven’t posted any caterpillar posts on my blog, in quite awhile.  However, if you put “caterpillar”, “swallowtail”, “butterfly” or “butterflies” in the search box in the upper right corner, you will find several older posts with lots of pics of the black swallowtail butterflies and caterpillars, that I like to watch in my yard.  [...]

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I just kept sewing yesterday!

By the time yesterday was done,  I had worked a bit on FIVE different quilts.  Well six, if you count the prep work on a customer top I’m fixing to start quilting.  But I made a little bit of progress on five of my own WIP’s.  Yay!
I made great headway on my Boston Commons.  I [...]

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Sewing, sewing sewing!

It may go into remission occasionally, but that Quilting Fever always comes back!  Gracie’s Star is now a flimsy!  I have to pick out my backing fabric and an allover quilting pattern for it.  I’m going to use Quilter’s Dream deluxe cotton batting.  It will be cozy!

And I quilted this cute pumpkin table topper for [...]

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