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| I finished my crocheted afghan. It has the better part of 8 skeins of yarn and has already been used by my husband last night. My kids weren't raised with quilts, they were raised with afghans just like this one, that their grandmother and I made. I know my daughter is going to be jealous. |
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| The ninth block of Nabby's Dowry. I think probably the last one, there are two more steps left, but I imagine that they are sashing and borders. |
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| Mackenzie's nine dolly quilt blocks. |
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| And their evil twins for my wallhanging. |
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| Nabby's Dowry is part of Pam Buda's Heartspun Quilts Pocket Patchwork Sew Along series. Here is one of the previous ones, and below is another. I'm sure she'll come up with something cute for this one, too. This one is Forget Me Not here. |
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| This one is Busy Work, lots more to see here. |
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| The cocoa cups are done, and it's a good thing they were saved until last. None of the steps were hard, but this was the most tedious and it might have caused some of us to give up. I'm tempted to go ahead and see about assembling it, but I'll wait, just to make sure that I don't goof something up. I have plenty to do in the meantime. |
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| Block 8 of Nabby's Dowry, mine on the left and my great-granddaughter's doll quilt on the right. Wilder sure makes a difference. |
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| My great-granddaughter, Mackenzies, 8 blocks for her doll quilt. Can't wait to see what the next two installments bring. |
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| My Halloween flimsy is a Halloween quilt now. I've been wanting to make more holiday quilts, so this is a good start. The panel made it quick and easy. Five borders was a challenge though, lol. |
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| The back is very plain, but 'very' scary. |
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| I got the panel from Hobby Lobby and wanted it to be reversible, what the heck, it doesn't take any more fabric and after a month or two, I can flip it and go another month. I used the trees from Deck-ade the Halls. I promise, it's not straight, but it's not as crooked as it looks. Hobby Lobby had the panel puffy and with the flower and crows glued on like floppy appliques, but I opted to just do it like a little quilt, and I will use the clips from Ikea to hang it on small nails. |
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| And the quilt is basted, so should be finished in a day or two, with any luck. My husband's health hasn't been the best, so everything is on stand-by. |
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| Only have the cocoa mugs and the assembly to go now. I should have a new Christmas quilt with any luck. I made two of these panels, the other one I'm going to use as a backing on my fall door hanging. I just can't pass up the opportunity for making it reversible. |
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| Here is my Halloween flimsy. a panel, and lots of borders. Hopefully, it will be cute, and not too scary. As you can see, I'm design wall challenged. I'm also making a wall hanging to hang on my front door, but it is just a panel that I'm going to finish. This is pretty much a 1 monther, but the one for the door will make it through 2 months, as it it fall -harvest. |
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| When my niece and her family were here we made a trip to Ikea. I have the mail sorter and the pen holders to this and I couldn't resist the trash can for less than four dollars. I'm weird I know, but I like trash cans (and clocks) all over the place. I have at least 5 trash cans in my sewing room. This one was sitting empty, and then after having my yarn rolling all over the floor I had a brainstorm. It is perfect for my yarn and my partially completed afghan, and there is lots of room. I can carry it easily from room to room and it 'feels' pretty. |
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| Not much sewing going on, but this one is easy to keep up with since it is just little bonus HSTs. The hardest part is finding enough that aren't the same colors. I haven't finished my August BOM's yet, but I think that even though I'll fall behind, I'm going to concentrate on getting a simple Fall-Halloween-Thanksgiving quilt and wall hanging done first. I'd like to have them done before the first of October, so I'll have more to show than good intentions, lol. |
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| No skating by this month, Each block was a little time consuming. I see that I was careless with some of my points, but I still like the blocks. |
