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DianeLoves2Quilt: October 2014
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014. Last week was slow and steady. But this week I crossed the finish line with my Vintage Ornaments quilt, even down to the label. The quilting in the sashing came out with the effect I wanted. It looks like the path taken by little starbursts wandering among the ornament blocks. And, in the blocks where it shows up, I am pleased that I made the effort to quilt in two sizes of meandering. I also made a second Counting Monkey. Wednesday, October 15, 2014. WIP: Slow and Steady.
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DianeLoves2Quilt: September 2014
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Thursday, September 25, 2014. On it) It can do such a tidy, quick job once I mastered the trickiness of getting it started. See the edges in the following photo. For inspiration I keep referring back to the QuiltingIsMoreFunThanHouseworkBlog and all her Scrap-A-Palooza tips. Be sure to check out the Scrap-A-Palooza Quilt Gallery tab to see what marvels can be made of all those scraps! Wednesday, September 24, 2014. Out of them someday. A loud thundering compressor? This is the quilter's equivalent of pic...
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DianeLoves2Quilt: February 2015
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Sandwich Making and Some Nibbles. This week I intended to make quilt sandwiches. Today I seamed the backing for Simple Gifts. The backing fabric was originally purchased to be two lengths running sideways across the quilt back. I just noticed the backing fabric has a direction. Since I want the written lyrics to the Christmas carols to read horizontally, seaming the backing became a bit more complicated. Has been slowed down by . the need to think! After several hours of mea...
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DianeLoves2Quilt: January 2015
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015. This week, I was working on blocks that had aqua gifts with red bows on a green background. I have been moving right along on these green background blocks, settled in a rhythm. I now know how to align the seams and where to trim the top bow section to have it meet the gift part how I like it. I was also thinking about the name for this quilt. I thought of naming it Quilt of Many Gifts. Patterned after the musical Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors. Wednesday, January 21, 2015.
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DianeLoves2Quilt: Purchases and Plans
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015. I just returned from Oklahoma after the birth of my first grandson on July 16th. My previous post. Was about a visit to Sooner Quilts. In Guthrie, OK with him and my daughter. I have returned home now and I'm a bit tired from travel. The trouble with a big push to finish something, immediately followed by travel, is the start-up again upon return home. I have two quilt tops waiting in the wings all layered and ready to be FMQ'd. I like the deep rich colors of the wine bottles i...
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DianeLoves2Quilt: July 2014
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014. WIP: Boats, Bitties, and Blue Waves. In my July 9, 2014 WIP post. I had just begun the fabric selection for my Nautical Baby Quilt. I'd picked out all fabric except the fabric for the waves, deferring that selection until I had some boats assembled. I cut out the pieces for the boats and background and tried out a new assembly system using Alphabitties. Never quite able to bring myself to throw out fabrics, I chain-pieced the triangles I cut off into HSTs. I left them connec...
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DianeLoves2Quilt: Start 'em Early before Heading Home
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Start 'em Early before Heading Home. I am heading back home to California after spending 2.5 weeks with my daughter's family in Oklahoma for the birth of their second child, a boy they named Isaiah. I did some serious baby holding while my daughter worked on the dinosaur themed quilt she is making for her son. She has published a post about it in her blog RobinLovesQuilting. Here is the fabric I bought to make a coordinating crib sheet. In my previous post. It is good to be head...
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DianeLoves2Quilt: August 2014
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014. WIP: Nautical Quilt Finish. This week I quilted and finished the nautical baby quilt. I quilted the central section diagonally with white thread as planned with my feed dogs engaged. I set the diagonal spacing and direction to match that of the wave blocks of half-square triangles. Turning was difficult at times as I changed the direction of the diagonals. But I wanted a zig-zag pattern like the sailboats make when they tack into the wind. At just over 21 months old she is sli...
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DianeLoves2Quilt: August 2015
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015. Quilt as accent strips and in my Traveling Mandala. Wall hanging as the geese of flying geese. At first blush these Hawaiian blocks look on grain. I am leaning toward making non-pieced blocks of 2x2 or 3x3 squares fussy cut from this fabric and interspersing them with other pieced blocks containing all three teal, red, and blue colors. I see too that her crafty endeavors have also wavered from quilting only. Maybe we quilters all needed a summer break. I Spy in Colorado Springs.
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DianeLoves2Quilt: Vintage Ornaments Finish
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014. Last week was slow and steady. But this week I crossed the finish line with my Vintage Ornaments quilt, even down to the label. The quilting in the sashing came out with the effect I wanted. It looks like the path taken by little starbursts wandering among the ornament blocks. And, in the blocks where it shows up, I am pleased that I made the effort to quilt in two sizes of meandering. I also made a second Counting Monkey. October 29, 2014 at 7:08 PM. Slow and Steady wins the...
