Have a FUN Friday and Happy Stitching!~P
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- paulette
- I am a wife, mother of three adult daughters, retired school teacher and crafter. I love quilting, making jewelry, stitching, felting and scrapbooking but quilting is my BIG passion.
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What is this mysterious fabric???? - Here my two blocks from today, made all from batiks, with an added contrast fabric. One with high contrast!! and one with low contrast. I like them bo...
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Shannon and the Shutters - Hi ya! I wanted to start off today by telling you about a visit I had with my dear friend, fellow bunny lover and quilt instructor, *Shannon Shirley of Onc...
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2017 Classroom Quilt: Kid's Art - This week was quilt week at school and the kids were soooo excited! They traced selected pictures using their pencils: The also used fabric markers to col...
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Grand Canyon Trip–Sedona - A post from Kelli– I’m working on a series of posts summarizing and sharing all of the fun that I’ve had on my recent trip to Arizona. The first day of dri...2 hours ago
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There has been some knitting going on - [image: IMG_9ff0a049c1a02fe55157e12826467186] I have knitted quite a lot through the winter, come to think of it :-) I find that I love best to knit wool...4 hours ago
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Farm Girl Finery Quilt - [image: mr6] This is Marlene’s* Farm Girl Finery* quilt and the pattern is in Kim Diehl’s book *Simple Appeal. *Marlene hand appliqued the wool pieces ...4 hours ago
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Cottonwood Creek - *I have to say....it feels soooo good to have this quilt done! It was fun to make, but when you're in a crush rush to complete it, some of the fun disapp...
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Quilt Market St. Louis - Quilt Market always goes by so quickly and this year was no exception…I can’t believe it’s already over! It was held in St. Louis this year, and I was p...6 hours ago
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Fabulous little quilt show - I was able to make a quick trip up to our cabin this week in order to check on the progress of the repairs to our damages from the ice dam leaks over the w...
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Sew'n Wild Oaks Class Was In Session - Hello Everyone, What a fun day yesterday in the classroom at In Between Stitches with my Sew'n Wild Oaks girls. Paula is working on Lil' Orphan Scrappy an...
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Table Toppers - For the last couple of weeks, I've played with my blue and cream Blue Sky quilt borders and started and finished a few table runners. With Blue Sky, the b...
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Block 12 Moda Blockhead Stitch Along - Click here to go to the Moda Blog to get Carries Block Pattern… – http://blog.modafabrics.com/ Lots of fun making this one…it was a little harder picking f...13 hours ago
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"Tuintje & Binnenpretjes" - Hoe gaat het met het daktuintje? Prima. Het is heerlijk om vanuit de woonkamer, naar buiten te kunnen lopen, je eigen daktuin op te wandelen. S'morgens...
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Blockheads ~ Block 12 - It’s week 12 so we’ve completed two trips around the block with the Blockheads. Puzzled – Moi. Before you download the pattern – there is a tiny update-cor...20 hours ago
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Lucketts Recap 2017 | part 2 - If you missed part 1 of the Lucketts 2017 recap, you can check it out HERE. Friday was VIP day, but it was a little different this year. The VIP tickets...21 hours ago
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Making Space for Improv - My AHIQ two block challenge quilt is a finished top! The initial design happened so fast that it is hard to remember exactly how it unfolded. I think my t...
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Snack Time is Finally Finished! - Hi all! It's a beautiful day in May so I thought that I would jump outside and snap a couple shots of my latest finish - "Snack Time" by Jay Bird Quilts....
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Tough gloves for Free-Motion Quilting - BIG NEWS in my little world. I'm on DVD! My Craftsy class Free Motion Quilting Essentials is fresh out on DVD, which I know a number of you with slower ban...
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Power Outage & More Wine Than Stitching - We were having a perfect day in Portland...beautiful weather, warm, hanging out with our grandson...and then the power went out. It is very weird when ...
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Inspiration from my little quilt group.... - We met at Diane's home, and we enjoyed seeing these beautiful thirties reproduction quilts hanging over her banister. So cheery for summer. I made t...
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刺繍とがま口 - 樋口愉美子さんの新刊。 暑くなってきてキルトが嫌なこの季節にもってこいですね！ 刺繍がしたい、がま口も作りたいと思っていたところでしたのでグッドタイミングな本でした。 どれから作ろう～～？！ ワクワク ニマニマ。。。｡ﾟ(ﾟ＾∀＾ﾟ)ﾟ｡
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Weekend Wanderings! - This weekend was a bit cooler and I was a bit sick, maybe a cold, but my body is dragging and I found it hard to crawl around on the rocks, so we took it ...
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APRIL COOKBOOK BOM - Cathy had sent me pictures of last month's Quilt Block Cook Book BOM. Above the ladies show their blocks. A couple more show their blocks. And some here ...
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More Old Italians - Obviously I was a little hasty in putting together that mini tutorial that I gave you a couple of posts back on how to sew the *Old Italian* block as I ha...
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MODERN BATIK CHALLENGE - What is your favorite Thread? - [image: Modern Batik] I must confess that I am not the modern kind of gal, I am country at best. These modern ch...
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Little by Little - Happy Monday Morning! It's another beautiful spring day here in Podunk. I love these crisp chilly mornings when the windows have been left open the night...
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STYLIN' IN THE KITCHEN - I like to make aprons for the grandchildren that are two or older. Never dreamed that they would invite such stylish accessories.
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Mai UFO focus - At the Tour the Fibre facebook group I have joined the challenge to have focus on projects. To set goal for ourselves. Each month i will try have focus on...
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Crazy Weather - First we had hot steamy weather with a strong wind out of the south. Then the wind changed and came out of north and we had cold weather and rain. I got ...
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Time Is Flying!! - I know I promised you some retreat photos, but I haven't quite figured out photo resizing yet. And then I caught the dreaded spring cold! Ugh! And this pa...
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Watch it Live!! A Quilter's Doodles - Hey everyone -- I'm here in St. Louis, Missouri at International Quilt Market -- I hope you're tuning into the amazing quilts and creations I've been shari...
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Another tie breaker - Two years ago this coming Sunday little Teemu was born and he became a tie breaker. I then had three grandsons and two granddaughters. On May 3rd, his litt...
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Inspired by Stargazing and Fireworks - Allow me to introduce my new EPP Quilt "Stargazer" to the "Lilabelle Lane Creations" collection of quilts. Stargazer is making its debut at the Spring Qu...
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Today's the Day!! - Welcome to simplyputplus.blogspot.com! Today is my day to post my design (block #11) in the Farmhouse Threads mystery summer blog hop. And here it i...
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"Spirit of Christmas" - What a fun week so far... I've been working on some designs for our K & K Company... and finishing up our projects we are teaching at the "Spirit of Christ...
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Surviving A Tornado! - You may have heard about the deadly tornado that ravaged through Chetek, Wisconsin yesterday afternoon leaving one man dead and 25 people injured! My sis...
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Tulip Quilt in progress. - I decided to make my blocks larger and in a combination of low volume black and whites along with blue and white fabrics. Here are the blocks laid out on ...
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Fabulous Background for Applique DVD available now! - [image: FBA2] Okay, so if you haven't had the chance to take my iquilt.com class, Fabulous Background Quilting for Applique yet, now is the time! You can ...1 week ago
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Longtime Gone Quilt - I've been very slowly working on Jen Kingwell's LongTime Gone BOM quilt. I joined the BOM last year and you know how that goes! I had the* best *of intent...1 week ago
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Chevrons - On my Chevron Legacy, the last strip finally got done and attached. All that needs to be done now is the making of vines, prepping more leaves and start a...
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Happy Mother's Day! - Special flowers for you! "Virginia" and me she was my best friend! Have a "GREAT DAY"--- Hug's, Carolyn
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Giveaway Winner - Congratulations to Crystal Knight - the winner of Oh Glory, a new book out by quilt designer Kathy Flowers - Thanks for entering your name, Crystal. I hope...
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Taking Flight! - My latest pattern 'Touch and Go' and its little sister 'Amelia' is now listed on Craftsy, Etsy and here on my blog.... You'll find all the purchase options...
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Walking.... - In a Winter Wonderland. That's the name of this pattern. Started it in 2015, finished it 2016. Could only work on it a little with my bad wrists/hands ...2 weeks ago
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Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas from my barn to your home. I hope you have a very good holiday!
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I'm still here! Sorry I disappeared... - Hi again, I've had quite a few messages asking what had happened and where I was, so I thought I should apologise for disappearing and explain what's happe...
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Since July 10, 2009
I love these trees! I have to get back to piecing with lines like this!
ReplyDeleteLove the different scale of the blocks! I'd be tempted to make a couple with bigger trunks to add to the mix.
ReplyDeleteyour trees are growing rapidly
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love your growing forest!
ReplyDeleteYour forest is growing!
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