New border options at the request of Nancie V

Nancie V at Stashbusters looked at my border options from my previous post and said she thought a crescent border would look really cool…so I just had to try it in EQ. I hate the effect of the tiling from the size of the sample of fabric in EQ, but this is still better than [...]

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Not-So-Ugly-Monkey Sampler blocks & our Saturday at the ball park

Well, I finished the next four blocks of the “Sunshine Sampler” (AKA Not-So-Ugly-Monkey) that I am doing along with some of the members of Stashbusters. This has been a fun quilt to work on, and I think it continues until October. Here is the State of Illinois block. The pattern has it as a two [...]

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April and May Not-So-Ugly Monkey blocks finished!

I knew April was going to be a busy month, so I didn’t even try to start the Stashbuster Ugly fabric blocks.  I was able to finish the last one up last night for both May and April. To be quite honest, the May blocks were MUCH easier than the April blocks. This is also [...]

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Green Not So Secret Project QOV finished!

I finally finished my green QOV. I used Alycia’s Not So Secret Project pattern for the quilt and pulled all my “muddier” greens out of my stash. I have quite a few “bright” greens, but wanted the darker greens as a more masculine quilt, as most of the QOV go to males. I wasn’t too [...]

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QuickBooks, quilting, duck sausage, and family life….with TWINS!

What that basically means, is that I haven’t had much time to post lately and I have missed it! I have been working on my business taxes and trying to finish that. Plus I purchased QuickBooks Pro 2009 at the really great price of $29.99 at the end of January, so have been trying to [...]

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