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Another Kim Diehl project, Laundry Day.  This little kit came to me from Fatquartershop.com, shortly after I joined the Simple What Nots Club, featuring monthly kits from Kim's patterns and fabric lines.  It took no time at all to cut it out.  The whole thing is just over 20" square, and will be a perfect […]

Oh dear, I have done it again.  Somehow buried something very cute at the bottom of the stash closet and forgot I had it. I made this little Schnibbles quilt years ago.  Years ago, as in 2007.  I took a class with Carrie Nelson, at Buggy Barn, and this one one of the projects.  I […]

It was a perfect weekend.  I got in lots of sewing time, and completed the two Kim Diehl projects that were the focus of the two classes I took with her during my recent trip. The first project was the easiest as far as machine applique is concerned.  Only those easy little leaf shapes which […]

Idaho Lily is coming right along.  The applique is all done, the blocks connected, the inner border on, and the sawtooth border started.  This little table topper is going to go great with my decor, especially during the upcoming holidays.  I tell you, it made me VERY nervous to cut away the backing fabric behind […]

You may have heard about the earthquake we had in California earlier this week.  It hit the folks in the Napa area pretty hard.  There are a great number of wine storage warehouses in that area, and some wineries were pretty devastated with their inventory falling and breaking.  Tragic. We were not affected particularly, but […]

Just checking in mid-week.  Hope you all are having a good one.  Summer is well on its way to being over, and that is somewhat difficult to accept, as it seems like summer just started.  No worries, there will plenty of more chickens and corn on the barbie before it is all a distant memory. […]

This finish of Metro Hoops by Sew Kind of Wonderful, using the Quick Curve Ruler is truly a happy one for me.  I thought I would share my thoughts on the construction experience and give credit to some things that were helpful to me. At the start I had a lot of issues with the […]

My mission lately has been to get some of my many flimsies quilted.  This one arrived just in time for the 4th of July!  This little quilt is called Dulcinea, a Schnibbles pattern by Miss Rosie's Quilt Company.  It is hot off the longarm machine of Mary Flynn of Quilt Hollow. I am wishing you […]

Thank you to all of you who have sent me such helpful suggestions on how I might make my corner triangles align more accurately in my Metro Hoops project, using the Quick Curve Ruler by Sew Kind of Wonderful.  My blocks are flat, they are squaring up to a perfect 8 inches, but those darn […]

I am doing the best I can here with this QCR project, Metro Hoops.  Here are three components of each block unit.  A strip set, cut into a curved shape with the Quick Curve ruler, and two side pieces, also cut with the QCR. All you have to do is sew them together so you […]