Life in Color โ€” a scrappy Log Cabin quilt block pieced in pink and green prints.

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  • Crosses on point – an enders and leaders quilt

    I love the idea of making an “enders and leaders” quilt during the year. I don’t have a huge problem with threads tangling on my Juki, but I know that every time I’m clipping threads, even automatically, I’m using up thread. I’m trying hard have less waste in my quilting process and also trying to maximize my sewing time. But honestly putting little bits together and slowly seeing a quilt come to life while working on others is super fun. Here is one I finished not that long ago. Bonnie over at Quiltville has a lot of info on Ender…

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  • One of my dearest friends adopted in 2018 and I was able to throw her shower. I LOVE showers and I was so happy I got to do this one. Because it was an international adoption I went with a globe/map theme, utilizing my local Buy Nothing group to borrow a bunch of them. We had a beautiful group of women and I wanted to do something extra special for our activity. I love the idea of guests books but think they are not always the best for long term… how often do you get them out and look at…

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  • I’m so happy to have this lovely quilt finished (50 x 58). I already blogged about it here so I won’t go into too much detail. I quilted this on my domestic machine (my beloved Juki). It may be one of the last quilts I quilt on that thing – as I’m a month or so away from getting my long arm. I really really can’t wait! To do this simple quilting I used a walking foot, especially because my batting was so puffy. Here you can see how simple it was. Yes I used some of my deep Denyse…

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