Kathy/WA's Blog – September 2011 Archive (4)

I said that I would get the main part of my quilt done today and I have.  I was a little worried this morning, nothing was going right at work and I figured that would carry over into my sewing time but I sat down,  had my coffee and gave myself a break before starting.  In the next few days I will get the border put on.  I haven't quite decided on what to do about that part but as easy as the block was to put together, the borders will be a piece of cake.…

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I had to go back and look at my posts to figure out when I started my latest quilt.  September 12th.   With any luck I will have the main piece of my quilt finished tomorrow.  I was surprized when I realized I needed to make ten more blocks and once the pieces were cut I had most of them put together in one day.  That's got to be a speed record for me! And knowing me I will stay up way too late tomorrow just to get it done.  Ok so late for me is 9:30.  I have been totally stressed out about… Continue

I've had a perfectly lousy week, but its my friday and I have two days to play with my blocks!  Having worked off and on over the past week or so on my new project, I made a personal discovery.  There is such a thing as too much of a pivot point when it comes to putting blocks together.  So I took my blocks apart and tried a new route on assembling my block.  Sneek peek enclosed.  Now that the first block is together and I'm really happy with the block, I should be able to get quite a few of…

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Well I started to make a quilt using red fabrics and for some reason I just couldn't get into making said quilt.  I loved the design but it just didn't hit me, if that makes sense, so I gave up on that project for the time being.  I have instead started a new quilt, made completely with Connecting threads materials.  I wasn't too sure about using the green I ordered with the materials I had put together but having completed half the block, I've decided that I really do like the…

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