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Well, actually I did not batter this block into submission. I failed utterly to make Lissa Alexander's Sewcialites Block 19, "Unity". I do not know what the problem was. Maybe the instruction measurements were a tad off, or I was making some sort of error. I must have tried three times to make that block […]

This is ModaBlockHeads 3 Block 37 by Vanessa Goertzen. Look at that. 12. Count them. 12 square in a square blocks. My nemesis. They always come out wonky. Or at least they used to. Now that Fatquartershop.com has come out with paper piecing tablets for this tricky block, there are no more problems with it. […]

How is your week going? Mine is pretty great. I love making these tiny little paper pieced blocks. I am reading a couple of good books. Homeschooling is going well. I really can't complain.  Regarding the blocks above- The brown and cream one front and center is adorable, and the buzz saw red and brown […]

Things have gone a bit topsy turvy on me in the past week.  My 95-year-old dad has had a small stroke.  It was a scare at first, but he is doing quite well. His symptoms are relatively minor, mainly a weakness in his left arm. He was hospitalized briefly.  And this is not a great […]

Well, this turned out somewhat better than I had expected.  With backing and batting and quilting, the light green background on this pumpkin table runner does look darker. My quilter used an adorable pumpkin vine quilting motif in green thread, which enhances the green background. It is still awfully subtle, but I guess it is […]

I think I spent as much time unsewing these blocks as I did sewing them together.  The problem was the center. I needed to have two of the leaf blocks turn inward and I neglected to do that.  Also, getting those four stems to line up in the middle was a bear. Oh well, it's […]

Our air quality is so bad from the fires all over the state.  I had some things I was trying to organize out in the garage and thought I would be "inside" enough while working on them for an hour.  Mistake. After an hour of puttering outside my house, I developed a full-blown asthma attack. […]

These little Maple blocks from the Pattern Basket pattern of the same name are turning out so cute.  I decided to go with a pile of batik fat quarters I have had forever and I love how the colors work together.  Very organic and fall like.  Excuse my hairy design wall.  I haven't lint rollered […]

Sorry for my sketchy posting this week.  Things are heating up around here with the start of school looming ahead of us in the next couple of weeks.  I will be homeschooling Eva and that will bring some changes to our schedule and our surroundings.  I know as time goes on we will find a […]

This is a little bitty four-inch block I made last week for Moda BlockHeads.  This was block 26, Zigzags.  The idea was to make 1 1/2" unfinished half-square triangles and make your block 4", 6", 8" or 12", depending on how many HSTs you wanted to make.  I stopped at 4" and that's it. It's […]