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Lots of Finishes!

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 My Husband went to music camp last week so I got a whole LOT of sewing done!  Here's a quick run down: I dipped into my basket of Batik leftovers and put this top together.  I had seen a picture of a tile wall with triangles and square tiles separated in rows by large bands of solid color and it gave me the idea to use these scrappy triangle and square blocks in a similar way.  I'm liking it!  It was fun and went together really fast. I also Had a short stack of kids quilts that had been waiting for bindings for some time and I got those all done too! Such cute fabrics! And the backing flannel print too! Another flannel quilt, this one I finished recently but stalled in the 'binding' dept. too. These next two were actually Orphan projects from the CZU project ( quilts for wildfire victims).The project put the call out for bed quilts but they got a lot of donations of kid quilts some of which were given to families with kids but some needed finishing.  They...

Happy 4th!

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 We aren't doing much for the Holiday.  It's kinda hard to get excited about Independence Day when around the country and the world it feels like Freedom is being threatened in so many ways. But I guess I'm still free to print that opinion so that's something! Our grand kids are visiting which is great fun. But definitely challenging energy wise.  When they went off to the beach  today to visit their cousins it was nice to have some quiet time. I've been doing a bit of sewing.  I finished another Sample for the class I hope to teach later this month.  I say 'hope'  because sign-ups have been slow.  'Might have to re-offer  the class in the Fall.  Such is the pace of Summer scheduling?! Anyway,  I wanted to make a sample using the 2 for 1 block technique with a more organized 'look' so potential students could see that the technique could be used for more symmetrical designs.  I decided to make a table runner (smaller project /l...