Yesterday was spent canning beef for a friend and fielding phone calls from work. It looks like I'll be heading in to work early today! My coworker/friend has been talking about needing to make space in his freezer. My answer to that is canning! I like to keep meat canned for convenience meals, so I …

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I’ve been preoccupied with canning lately so I haven’t had much time at the sewing machine. But yesterday I couldn’t resist sitting down and making some four patches. Let’s see how these guys come together. I started by cutting a pile of neutral and brown 1 1/2” strips. I laid a neutral and brown strip …

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I started pulling fabrics for the Good Fortune quiltville mystery yesterday, but had a sudden realization that I have WAY too many strings that are begging to be turned into a quilt. I think Good Fortune will be put on hold while I come up with a way to make a dent in this corner …

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Is anyone else behind the 8 ball for this years Quiltville Mystery, Good Fortune? I haven't even pulled my fabrics for it. The colors this year are so bright I am considering doing an alternative color scheme. I would like to use purples, I have a large stack of them! This weekend was spent canning …

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I had a great week hunting with family and was able to "tag out" by harvesting two deer and filling both my tags. Along with all of the relaxing time in the deer stand, it gave me time to hand piece hexies! I got 9 done! I use 1" hexie templates. I probably could have …

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I started my Dear Jane Quilt in January of this year. I am making (very slow) progress on it between other projects. I am making her (scrappy!) out of civil war reproduction fabrics. What's great about Dear Jane is that every block inspires some quilt design in my head. With any long term project comes …

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