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For a long time now I have been interested in landscape quilts, so when my guild offered a class to make hand appliqued mini landscape quilts, I jumped at the chance to finally make one. While I didn't come away from the class with learning anything much new, it was fun and caused me to finally get around to making one. The best part of the class was that it challenged me to grow and explore something that I've wanted to learn for a long time now, and I'm thrilled that I have!

Yesterday I finis… Continue

It's a beautiful morning here, with clouds in the sky and rain coming down. We finally have rain that is worthy of the name, as we've been very dry around here for a long time. I love the rain, which is ironic given where I live. I feel cooler just looking out of my quilting room window.

A few minutes ago I saw something else that was beautiful, and that was a landscape or art quilt that my friend B J Elder/WA posted a couple of days ago. It is a gorgeous quilt done by a very gifted quilter, an… Continue

I finally finished those three quilts for my friend to take with her to Guatemala! Hopefully I have finished them before she leaves, as she didn't tell me when she would be leaving this month. This was a UFO of sorts because she gave me the fabric panel for the fronts just before our dgd arrived to stay for the summer, and I didn't get any real sewing done while she was here. So it feels really good to have them finally done.

One of the things that I've been looking forward to when I finished,… Continue

I've never worked on a quilt that was constructed with a "quilt as you go" method, so it was with great excitement that I have been participating in my guild's project this summer. We have been making a queen sized quilt together and it has been so much fun! We aren't finished yet, but are stitching down the strips on the back of the rows to cover the raw edges before we attach the rows to each other.

It was easy to piece the blocks, which actually quilted them in that same step! Sewing the str… Continue

One of our dgd's has been living with us since the latter part of May, except on weekends. It has been a pure joy to have had this opportunity to spend so much time with her. Sadly, our summer with her was over when her mommy picked her up on Tuesday afternoon. We all miss each other terribly, though she's very excited about starting school this coming Monday.

For me it is the opportunity to get back to quilting and having time for other activities that I've missed being able to do over the las… Continue