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Minneapolis Modern Quilt Mystery Quilt Along

This year the Minneapolis Modern Quilt Guild decided to do a Mystery quilt rather than a block lotto. This ensured you could go at your own pace and that you weren\’t stuck with a small amount of blocks and trying to figure out what to do with them. 🙂 The super talented Kristin from AContinue reading “Minneapolis Modern Quilt Mystery Quilt Along”

Scrap Management Workshop Dilemma

The Minneapolis MQG had a workshop this month with Amanda Jean Nyberg, who blogs over at crazy mom quilts, and is the co-author of Sunday Morning Quilts. I have usually been pretty good at using scraps but several projects in the book enticed me and I wanted to see how Amanda used color in herContinue reading “Scrap Management Workshop Dilemma”

Fresh Sewing Day February 2014

I didn\’t get too much fully completed in January but I got a lot of things to the point of almost done. 🙂 I have several quilt tops that just need the blocks sewn together. I also have a quilt top that is ready to be quilted, the back just needs to be completed. IContinue reading “Fresh Sewing Day February 2014”

Hand Pieced Quilt Along Almost Done!

I have been working on my Hand Pieced Quilt Along quilt for about a year now. I have loved working on this project and have done it completely by hand, even the cutting. I wanted to see what it was like to quilt back in the day and about how long it would take. IContinue reading “Hand Pieced Quilt Along Almost Done!”

Alex\’s Quilt In Progress

So there\’s someone special in my life right now and he thinks my quilting habit is awesome. Which is nice when a man recognizes your passion as something of value rather than that you\’re a weirdo. So since he has stuck around awhile I decided to make him a quilt. The only thing is thatContinue reading “Alex\’s Quilt In Progress”

Texas Tickertape

I wanted to show this to ya\’ll so badly but I wanted to finish it and actually get a couple of good pictures of it in the sun before I revealed this piece to the world. You know those times that you think of an idea and HAVE to make it right then? Well IContinue reading “Texas Tickertape”

Hand Piecing Block #3 Down

I finished my Hand Pieced Quilt Along Ohio Star Block this past weekend! We had a beautiful afternoon with the Minneapolis Modern Quilt Guild and sat out in the sun and did hand work all afternoon. I got this done and then another couple of blocks done on my only ongoing hand quilting project. IContinue reading “Hand Piecing Block #3 Down”

Beginning of Two

One of my best friends from college is getting married. Yay! She is also pregnant! Yay! And she is also having twins. For reals?! So that means I get to make two quilts for her daughters to be. I\’ve been wanting to make a wonky pinwheel quilt for awhile now, but have not had aContinue reading “Beginning of Two”

Sew Sew Modern Mini

I moved in January and traveled a lot in January and I was scared that I was going to have a time crunch on my Sew Sew Modern piece, but luckily I didn\’t. The partner that was selected for me, I had already had before in a previous swap so I knew her style, colorContinue reading “Sew Sew Modern Mini”

How Exciting Is This??

So I couldn\’t help but post about this because you all will understand, no one else does!! So I\’m in Minneapolis for a couple of days for business and on one of the blogs I follow I saw a mentioning of the Minneapolis\’ MQG meeting being this week. I thought to myself that it wasContinue reading “How Exciting Is This??”