Midwest Quilts: Part 4

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Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

The Dachshunds! - We had Speck when Rita came to live with us but Speck was old and he didn’t want to play. He was nice to Rita, which surprised me, but he had health issues...
5 hours ago
Sane, Crazy, Crumby Quilting

What's In The Hoop? - What's (finally) in the hoop? Cherry Baskets I'm big stitch hand quilting with red perle cotton. I need to decide on a motif to quilt in that half circ...
6 hours ago
With Strings Attached

Weekly update: placemats + reading - On Friday I showed a photo of nine-patch blocks that I made out of the border fabric from the bingo board blocks. I said I had no plan for them. Wel...
15 hours ago
Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!

And Then There Was This - - This was my weekend! After a whirlwind Opening Day of Old Town Excitement on Friday (You'll find everything under the Old Town Mystery Tab at the top of...
15 hours ago
Humble Quilts

Texas Quilt Museum - The Texas Quilt Museum was open on the Monday before the quilt show. We were the only ones there and we spent several hours gazing at these lovelies! ...
15 hours ago
Textile Time Travels

November Dresden Plate Challenge - Island Batik Blog Hop - This month's challenge/assignment for Island Batik Ambassadors is to create a quilt using the classic quilt pattern - DRESDEN PLATE. Here's mine and you...
16 hours ago
citymousequilter

november wind down - as turkey day approaches and 6 days to tree up day, no time to waste finishing this... just a quick closure and it'll be done....well ahead of turkey da...
16 hours ago
That man Quilts?

A little of this, a little of that - Last week got busy at work. I was asked to help with two research projects, plus the two projects I was already working on really took off. I was crea...
17 hours ago
Alycia Quilts

Gratitude 25 and a little Quilting - Two Kinds of Gratitude:The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give. - E RobinsonTaken looking southeast from my off...
17 hours ago
My Sewing Room

Design Wall Monday - Nov. 25 - What's on everyone's design wall this morning? https://smallquiltsanddollquilts.blogspot.com/ I'm making tiny Christmas stockings for the annual grandki...
18 hours ago
Institches with Bonnie

Monday Meanderings 11 - 25 - 2024 - Happy Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving has come barreling in this year, or so it seems to me. And we all know what comes next! This week I didn't seem to get ...
1 day ago
Making Scrap Quilts from Stash

Hat #36 - Thanks to football Sunday and a Viking win in overtime another hat is done. Pattern is Mount Ambler found free on Ravelry at this link.
1 day ago
Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Oh Scrap! : Scrappy Finishes - The only thing I did with scraps this week is to stuff them into my scrap bins. I really need to get back into the habit f sewing with my scraps. They ...
1 day ago
DONNALEEQ

ATLAS ZIPPER CASE - I took a break for a few days this past week and got involved with Kristina Brinkerhoff's Center Street Quilts, Atlas Zipper Case pattern. Just needed a...
2 days ago
Treadlestitches

Thankful - Welcome to Treadlestitches! This coming Thursday is Thanksgiving, an appropriate time to express our gratitude for all the blessings we receive daily a...
2 days ago
Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE

The Scrappy Quilt - A cartoon character "Scrappy" A scrappy quilt We love to make them and love to look at them.... One would guess the name is fairly recent but.... In ...
2 days ago
Quilty Folk

Bramble Blooms Quilts are Progressing and A Couple New Starts! - Though I try to keep the open ended projects at 10 or less, a couple projects just demanded to be started this month. First off is the barely-there start...
3 days ago
Down To Sew

Biggy the Bee - MaryJo made this amazing Biggy the Bee quilt. I custom quilted Biggy and filled in the rest with swirls and flowers. What a neat quilt! Thanks MaryJ...
4 days ago
pages from me

- Marjorie in the comments said that it had been a long time since either Keryn or I had posted, and hoped we were all right. We're still here, still sewin...
4 days ago
Michelle's Romantic Tangle

{I've Been Reading} You Feta Watch Out - * You Feta Watch Out *by Linda Reilly The latest grilled cheese mystery has a recipe for grilled cheese fruitcake and I'm almost tempted to try it if so...
5 days ago
Wyoming Breezes

Stealthy - stack of “Stealth” blocks will finish @ 6 inches I think these blocks look like colorful Stealth bombers, so I’m going to name the finished quilt “Stealthy...
6 days ago
The Constant Quilter

What I did on my summer vacation... - Early summer was great with lots of family fun and plenty of quilting time in between. Then, just after my last post in August, my Myasthenia Gravis kic...
1 week ago
straythreads

Rainy day and sewing - Playing with blocks on a rainy day in the sewing room. So glad it isn’t snowing!! —Ann—
1 week ago
Applique 'n Patch Quilting

Progress slowing down .... - Gosh, I had to think hard about doing this post. I just don't feel like much has been happening the last two weeks. But, surprise, surprise! This is th...
1 week ago
joy for grace

A Crow, a Surgery, the Ocean, and a Little Plaid Basket (but not in that order) - To those of you who left comments on my last post, thank you! I responded on the post and not to your email boxes. There seem to be some glitches in eith...
3 weeks ago
JulieKQuilts

Lots of things going on! - Good morning, or evening to you!!! I have been sewing pouches of different sizes, and I enjoy filling them with different things and gifting them to f...
3 weeks ago
Elaine Adair Pieces

November Guild BOM - I took liberties with the center and made it into a pinwheel. That Pincheel coloration was my 4th !!! version. The previous 3 versions just didn't...
4 weeks ago
True Blue Canadian

The next-next generation - Since my children would be the next generation, I have titled this post as the 'next-next' generation. I see my grandchildren often and am lucky enough t...
4 weeks ago
Cheryl's Teapots2Quilting

Prairie Star Quilt Show Part 2 - This is the last part of the Prairie Star Quilt show from last Friday. The quilting is great on this quilt. I've always liked Feathered Stars and Doub...
4 weeks ago
Fun With Barb

The Circle is Complete - Kindred Spirits; Jill's Quilt, is finished! Jill started this quilt in 2006. It was a group project of our Cupcake Club. A group of four quilt friends ...
3 months ago
The Quilting Professor

Donation Quilts - The second quarter of this year has been filled with lots of non-quilty things. But still, some good finishes occurred. A box of kid-sized charity...
5 months ago
Quilting Twin

Gardening - The effects of my chest cold linger on, lots of coughing and very little energy. In spite of my lethargy I have managed to do a few things. I needed t...
6 months ago
Pleasant View Schoolhouse

Cyclamen 1 - I bought this little cyclamen plant at Kroger to paint and find myself going back to it again and again. This is the first painting of four so far. It'...
9 months ago
CowgirlQuilter

Exciting News!!!! I opened a Quilt Shop!!!! - Exciting News!!!! I opened an online quilt shop!!!! The Quilted Mule!!! It's been a dream for a while, and I did it! Currently, it is online only. ...
10 months ago
mangofeet

Happy New Year! - And here's hoping 2024 is kinder than 2023.
10 months ago
Wonkyworld

Thrift Store Find: Mata Ortiz Tejido textured bowl by Reynaldo Quezada, Mexico - Recently we were thrift shopping in Portland, and thinking we were done, we wandered down an aisle we'd already covered and headed toward the door. So...
1 year ago
- The Quilter -

April/May 2023: Lost in Time - Wow! Has it been this long since I posted? I thought I did one in March but it is nowhere to be found. 😑 So what have I been doing? Crocheting Project...
1 year ago
Love Laugh Quilt

Sewing and spring - I had the best time recently, camping at a beautiful location With my trusty little sewing machine! The weather varied quite a bit….but it didn’t include an...
1 year ago
homespun living

HOMESPUN LIVING IS MOVING! - Happy New Year! Hope yours is off to a great start. I have been giving a lot of thought lately to making changes that will help organize and simpl...
3 years ago
Park Hill Farm

A Bittersweet Day - Today marks the one year anniversary of my beloved Felix's sudden passing. It has been a long and lonely year. I am grateful to all my friends and fami...
4 years ago
Dora Quilts

Springtime In Illinois - I know this blog is long overdue for an update. The last year and more have been full of mostly amazing changes. My chemo was completed near the end of las...
5 years ago
Gypsy Quilter Designs

To be or not to be, that is the question. - First seen in a book including Country Threads patterns by Connie and Mary, making this table runner moved to the top of my list. That was about 5 years ag...
5 years ago
nifty quilts

Basting a Quilt on a Table - If you're a person who bastes your quilts on the floor, as I did for years, you might want to know that you can save your knees and do it on a table. I ...
5 years ago
Scraps and Threadtales

Tonya visit! - My friend Tonya (Unruly Quilter) came to visit and left this "doll soup" on my stove at the Quilt Cottage. (I know not the most inspiring name but for ...
6 years ago
Quiltin' LibraryLady

Surprise!!! - It's only been three months since I last posted, but who's counting, right? Anyway, here's a quote from Bonnie K. Hunter's blog that really caught my eye: ...
6 years ago
What a Load a Scrap

New Blog - I'm blogging solo at https://fromthebuttonbox.blogspot.com. Stop by and say 'Hi'.
6 years ago
365 Days and Other Ramblings

A FAST Quilt Finish... - *Last Saturday, Andy & I went to an estate sale. There was a LOT of STUFF...but my interest was in the fabric! Did I mention this was an estate of a...
6 years ago
Farm Mom's Musings

Return of the Blog? - I haven’t blogged for several months. Anyone miss me? Indeed it was early last fall. It was beginning to be a chore rather than fun. So I stopped. Rec...
6 years ago
Na Na's life, memories, and frugal living

Urgent warning notice - URGENT WARNING ABOUT SHIPPING QUILTS TO ME: Please take notice that if you accidently mail a quilt to my old address you will NOT get it back. The lady wh...
6 years ago
Tim Latimer - Quilts etc

Finished! - I had my (hopefully ) last pancreatic procedure yesterday! This one was to remove the stint and the stone fragments. I am very tired today and have a...
6 years ago
Q is for Quilter

Reproduction Antique Basket 4-Patch Crib Quilt Top - You can read about the original antique quilt in an earlier post. Because my blocks are slightly smaller (3″ instead of 3 1/2″), I decided to make the quil...
7 years ago
Dakota City Quilter

New Blog Address - This blog seems to have a mind of its own. I am moving to a "new" blog-- https://dakotacityquilterii.blogspot.com/ Hopefully this blog will work better. ...
7 years ago
HenHouse

Petal Power and a Reshuffle - Hello readers, I hope this post finds you well, this Friday evening of the Bank Holiday weekend. Thank you for all your comments on my last blog post, it ...
7 years ago
jenniferquilts

Pillowcases - My Mom and I sew together quite often, sometimes I get her into things.......like pillowcases! We did these last winter and now they are finally getting...
8 years ago

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

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