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    Yesterday I shared my flimsy for the Something Smells Fishy blog hop hosted by Just Let Me Quilt. The fishy part really had me all over the place in my design process. I found as many fish blocks as I could but decided I needed something more original.

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    Something’s fishy

    In my search I came across some funny word designs and immediately I knew I had to find a clever way to use them. It hit me, a t-shirt quilt since many of the designs I imagined on t-shirts. So I drew up a patchwork t-shirt block and started stitching.

  • Put your foot down 245

    July 1st I received shipment 2 for the 2024 Island Batik Ambassador program and the boxes are still sitting in my sewing room unopened. Before the end of the week though I plan to get these boxes opened and be wowed.

  • Economy Block Tutorial

    The Economy Block is a traditional patchwork block that makes beautiful scrappy quilts or a single block made large enough for a baby quilt. They’re also great fill blocks or quilt samplers.

  • Put your foot down 243

    At the moment I am all caught up with IBA challenges, until the new box of goodies arrive sometime next week. I’m really enjoying some relaxed sewing for the “Something Smells Fish Blog Hop” hosted by Carol at Just Let Me Quilt.

  • Prisms blog hop

    Welcome to my stop in the Prisms Blog Hop hosted by Claudia of Create with Claudia. The hop is in celebration of Claudia’s first signature line Prisms with Island Batik. Thank you Claudia for providing the opportunity to work with such beautiful fabric.

  • Put your foot down 242

    Today is my second appt this week to the dentist, yuck. I have been making progress with projects and finally finished the organization in my sewing room.

    Yesterday I shared my For the Birds/Create for a Cause quilt. With this finish I discovered I really do love improv quilting and learned to accept sometimes the block placements do not always work.