Oh My Stars! Block…

There have been very few posts this week -- Are we all off doing something interesting?  (Thank you, Peggy, for your weekly endeavor!)  I was sorting through some photographs, and I stumbled upon this one, taken at the Outdoor Quilt Show in Sisters, Oregon, in 2009 or so.  I have been there three times.  It is always the second Saturday in July -- can be really hot; maybe windy; very rarely threatening rain, so they always hang the quilts.

This is a store front on the main drag…

I'm pretty sure I'm going to dive into doing a Dear Jane quilt.  I bought the book from a quilting friend and have started collecting appropriate fabrics.  Need advice:  Do you hand piece the blocks or machine piece?  Do you cut and piece or do you paper piece?  Does paper piecing offer more accuracy ?

Thanks in advance.

This week was taken up in part with quilting. Here is the third Pine Burr block:





And the fourth:

And the…

OOOO I wish I could txt, email, tweet, snap, pin, post something to ol' Mother Nature.  She's made me lose my sew-jo, and at moments I don't even want to hang around with myself for fear I will cuss myself out. 

Luckily in a few weeks I will be at the International Quilt…

I haven't been here for a while. I feel like I've been on a huge treadmill. Dashing here, running there, falling on the ice (I'm fine but I landed flat on my back before I knew I was falling). Not much quilting going on.

But, when I was standing still for a moment, I ended up with a three new projects from our quilt guild--make an applique block, do a challenge with HIDEOUS FABRICS, and participate in a mystery quilt. Damn.

I've almost finished the table quilt I'm supposed to…

As I mentioned earlier, my camera battery died and I lost half of what I had taken, so I redid the block.  I found that I wasn't happy with my sample block and redid it in Pinks.  

And here is how I cut it.  Remember for Color 4, you will need four 4.5 inch strips plus one 2.5 inch…