I learned my lesson from the other day – I’m getting ready to hand sew around the edges of this one. This was a really quick block which worked out well since that left me plenty of time to work on several things today. I used a pale blue fabric for the background. Every time…
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how awesome is this!
The letter carrier dropped off the mail just as we were headed out the door last night. What a surprise I had when I opened the package! A couple of weeks ago I had a notification that I was the lucky recipient of Christmas ornaments from a blog that I follow. She asked me to…
More BSQ blocks
Crikey. I’ll never keep these organized at this rate. I had this great idea that I would have one blog post per block like I’ve done with the Splendid Sampler but I didn’t keep them straight in what order I did them. To add to that, I’m not sewing them in numerical order, alphabetical order,…
Merry Christmas!
Just a quick post to wish everyone a very merry Christmas! We’re spending a few days surrounded by family and a few friends so I’m unplugging for the most part (once at least one other person wakes up – haha!) Here’s another block from the Bible sampler quilt but I don’t know which number or…
BSQ 7 – Beggar’s block
I’ve gone back and forth a few times about how to title these blocks. I think I’ve finally decided on BSQ (short for Bible sampler quilt) then the number it is in the book and then the name of the actual block. I’ve actually made more than what I’ve posted here so far – surprise,…
6 – Beggar’s block
I’m taking a few days of vacation before the end of the year so I thought I would see if I can knock out of few blocks since one of the kids is still in school. I probably won’t get much free time next week since I haven’t even begun to think about wrapping presents…
Block 87 – Shining Star
I’m bound and determined to use up as many of my small scraps as possible as we are nearing the end of the Splendid Sampler. I thought when I laid the fabrics out for this block that I had enough contrast between the navy and dark green as well as the white vs. light blue. …
7 – Birds in the Air
I officially started on the Bible sampler quilt. I spent a few days thinking about what colors I wanted to use in it as well as fabric type. I have a good deal of batiks on hand and since I’m going to be paper piecing all 96 blocks I decided batiks it is. This particular…