Whoo whoo

Little owls for my Little Owl. I finally, finally finished this blanket for her. Took me long enough! I used flannel instead of batting, and kind of cheated by just using a big bias tape maker to make the binding.  But she loves it, and it’ll be perfect for taking to the farmers’ market and for [...]

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Quilts and Messes

Finished the four doll quilts for the tot’s school today. I put a new blade on my rotary cutter and it pretty much made my week. Honestly, what’s with that? Just change the blade when it’s used up. It’s kind of like when I cut open the bottle to get the last speck of lotion [...]

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Randomness

After quite a long hiatus, I’m doing a bit of quilting. Mostly I just want to use up my (not extensive) fabric stash so I’ll have an excuse to go buy some more. I had a couple of random half yards of fabric sitting around that never got made into pillowcase-style dresses for the tot, [...]

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Quilted

For you consideration, two poorly focused shots of the inadequately quilted crib quilt that I finally gave up on and finished binding on the machine. So it’s half hand-bound and half machine-bound. I make my own rules. Actually it’s the quilt I made for the beginner’s quilting class I took, and she didn’t have us [...]

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Quilting frenzy

The other day the tot and I were shopping for some fabric and stumbled across something truly wondrous. Now, this is not my usual aesthetic. But here’s the deal. Grandma – that’s my mama – is about to start caring for my niece, when her mama goes back to work. Grandma often blasts around the [...]

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Quilted

Yesterday afternoon I panicked because I needed a special gift for a special little girl – we’re missing her birthday party but that certainly didn’t mean I wasn’t compelled by the Goddess of Crafty Over-Acheivement to make her something. So, feeling very clever for having already cut out a bunch of squares, I whipped up [...]

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Long overdue

Two months ago I took pictures of my beautiful new niece – and have finally finished editting them. I got the important announcement ones done and the rest have been sitting there gathering virtual dust. Until today. Here are a couple of my favorites. I admit, the main reason the second is a favorite is [...]

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