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Slowpoking
Mourning Jules is growing slowly. The first four rows of the heart are attached. Now, three more heart rows and three ending rows and it will be ready for a border. Filed under: grief quilt, hand...
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Mourning Jules progress
The last three heart rows have been added for a full heart design. Only three rows to go and then the border which I am going to attach by machine. When I started hand piecing this quilt I did not...
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Comfort quilting
Working on my Mourning Jules quilt has been such a comfort to me during the weeks around the first anniversary of his passing. Although it is not finished, I far surpassed the goal I set for myself in...
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Circle in circle progress
This project has been in a drawer because I started it as a hand piecing project and did not really have the motivation to keep tackling those curves. In the back of my mind I had been considering...
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Circle success–a finish
When I got all the Circle in Circle blocks together and started thinking about a border, I was thrilled to find that all seven quilts using this block in Mary Mashuta’s Confetti Quilts were finished by...
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Hexagon Stars–more hand piecing
It’s been a while since I posted about the blue and yellow blocks in my header–my December 31, 2010 post to be exact Jules was still here when I started it in Panama and he gave it a Spanish...
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Hexagon star edge
I am not partial to irregular edges on bed quilts so my first thought for straightening the two sides of Cielo Azul was to add large half triangles. True to form (will I never learn), I cut them all...
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Another epic quilt tale
I had been seeing the Rose Star pattern on several blogs and it looked like a great hand piecing project so I ordered a Kite template from QuiltSmith. Wanting my project to evolve quickly, I ordered...
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Resolved…again
I had more or less given up New Year’s resolutions until last year when I made a list of works in progress and resolved to finish all of them before starting anything new. Like many of us quilters, I...
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Tumblers in progress
It seems forever since I have worked on my Mourning Jules quilt but that is because I didn’t have a quilting plan for the border. I had bought a template but decided it was too whimsical for the theme...
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Recovery stitching
Wouldn’t you know that just when I felt like sewing again, I was forced to restrict my activities to let my poor back heal. I tried to mostly read and watch Netflix but after a while I needed more...
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