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Spring Bouquet Wall Quilt

Here is a fun, somewhat insane, project I finished recently.  I decided I wanted to scale down my Spring Bouquet quilt and make it wall-sized.  The original quilt is 84" x 84" and the blocks are 9" square.  The scaled down version measures 29" x 29" and has 69 blocks measuring 3" x 3" ... View Post

Boundless Quilt Kits

  How do you feel about quilt kits?  I haven't used one, myself, but I think they are pretty ingenious.  What's not to like about getting a snazzy new pattern and all the fabric needed to make it?  It can sometimes take me an hour to pick fabric for just ONE block, so I can imagine that a ... View Post

Spin Out

Hello?  Hello?  Is there anybody out there?  No, you are not having hallucinations. You are seeing an actual, honest to goodness, post on my blog! I'm going to attempt to come back to the land of blogging.  As much as I love Instagram, I miss the depth and substance there is to reading and writing ... View Post

Right Round Medallion Quilt Finish

Is it really the end of summer already?  School starts next week for us!  My family spent five weeks driving across the country (twice), and visiting my family back East.  We saw the Grand Canyon, the Meteor Crater, Amish Country, Las Vegas, hiked waterfalls, scaled the Rockies (in a car), swam ... View Post