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We are now offering a new pendant! My name is Bonnie K Hunter, … !Are you familiar with Deb Strain? Please snoop around and see our fresh and exciting new quilt patterns...and don't forget to browse around our newest fabrics for Moda. Family and home are the most important things to me, so I try and balance that with my need to create . Our entire website has been completely re-vamped and we have almost tripled the amount of items on there! I like how Ozzie's tail hangs down into the sashing.I replaced the small center block (potted plant and seed packets) with a bee skep and flowers, and added bees all over the quilt because my husband raises bees. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”“Listening is an art that requires attention over talent, spirit over ego, others over self.”Next step is to clean up no longer needed tools, etc.We're all seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.“Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”“I want to say THANK YOU to the rare few individuals in my life who have listened without judgment, spoken without prejudice, helped me without entitlement, understood without pretension, and loved me without conditions.”You'll notice they are back in their original layout.I won't square any of the blocks until all of the are done.I laid out all the strings for each set of four quadrants,And for those who are wondering how the back looks,here's a photo with the extra kite fabric trimmed away.“Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant.

It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. What a special gift that you could have made for your daughter and/or granddaughter! The quilt will be a combination of hand piecing and machine sewing. She had done the machine quilting on it, and we started chatting back and forth. So plans are running through the head and maybe now I will be motivated to get back to piecing – but while I wait for my orders to arrive I need to get to work and make my two purple blocks for the RSC20 Country Charmer quilt for August and some more pineapple blocks. He always came and hung out with me when I picked them. As always our patterns are … 2020. If you wish to link to this site or to a post from this site, please give appropriate credit for content. So this may all be a little random, but here we go! For flying geese blocks, they fit right up into the V of your block, nice and snug...no slipping. I miss him!When my dad passed away in January, my quilting friends, Jill, Vicki, Becky & Kim, gave me a tree to plant in our yard in his memory. All images, text, and content on this site are the sole property of Julie Sefton (unless otherwise attributed) and may not be used, copied, or transmitted without my express consent. 4 Patch Dresden Template! Utility means "of practical use" - and my quilts ARE used. I love to wash them.

I love this metal sewing machine! It was just crazy to have it sitting in the closet with all that work in it and that close to being done! We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. She designs fabric for Moda and also designed these note cards. and gave it to me one day. My planning wasn't perfect and there was a big space above Boomer's head that I couldn't decide what to do with, so I put it all away for another year or so (sheesh!!). This flag was designed by a member of the Facebook group. I used to stick strawberries in his mouth (he liked them! I bought a bunch when Deb told me they were discontinued, but don't wait too long to get yours. I add a little piece of it to a lot of my wool applique projects. I love to piece on them. This was before adding the binding - I'm hand stitching it down now.Here are some pictures that Sharon took while she was quilting it - she did a beautiful job - I just love it.Click on the picture to go to my website. They replaced garden tools and gloves. They make trimming easy.We have added a huge amount of new jewelry, scissor fobs and needle minders.

Mail them to your friends - we all love a fun mail day!The others are all Bloc Loc rulers. Something ate all of our berries this year (probably because Boomer wasn't here to chase them away), but every time I went to check the patch, out of habit, I always looked to see if he was coming. Well...unpack it! -- from Audrey Easter who blogs at Quilty Folk - http://quiltyfolk.blogspot.comA squirrel is a sudden distraction that pulls us away from projects already underway. Quiltville's Quips & Snips!! These are 1 1/4" pendants.The cat on the left side represents our five outside kitties.

I do it every day. I got to make me another one." I replaced the garden hose on the right with a United States flag. Thank you for visiting my blog which is a personal journal of my quilting life, plus a few favorite things thrown in for fun.

. I included almost all new pins, and a bunch of earrings. low volume prints and pinks for two different projects.Eventually there will be eighty 6" finished squares.When I first flipped through Crazy Mom's latest book,her Slopes design was the one I most wanted to makeWith Feisty (see previous post) off the design wall,A replacement thermopane glass insert has been ordered (thank goodness the interior layer was not breached)that we invested the money and space for this lift.DH has spent this week leveling the flooring in the room.Even though the surfaces are hard enough to walk on,I made one test block using 2.5" squares which are larger than the ones she's using.I cut some of my test squares from this stack of low volume prints that were cut a while back for a project but were not used.I pulled out a box full of random 2.5" squares including a few HSTs to help get me started.Goodness knows I have lots of scrappy fabrics from the resource boxes that will be perfect for This lovely yardage from the back of the closet will be perfect for backing . Here is the original...You can see all of the changes that I made - here are the details, with pictures below.It took a long time for me to finish this, but I sure am glad that I did! Here are some close-ups - the pictures are kind of washed out, but you get the idea! One day I saw some pictures that Sharon Lacey posted on Instagram of a version of this quilt. When he was a puppy he made it very interesting - constantly jumping around in the patch.

I love to look at pretty quilts. I made a lot of changes to the original pattern to make it my own. I hate to trim, but if I need to, I will always use the Bloc Loc. If you haven't tried them, you really should. Happy Quilting! "“Having a parent who listens creates a child who believes It didn't take long before a second block was done. ... To get started visit the OLFA blog for this free “I Love You More!” pattern.