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Old 08-03-2014, 04:25 AM
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Snooze2978
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Location: Carroll, Iowa
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I'll join you this weekend. Got an outside project done with the help of a friend. Wanted to realign all my flower bed borders so I didn't have any sharp corners as its hard to mow and get close. Plus the front beds have the crescent blocks and the sides and rear have double bricks. Now they are all double bricks and I didn't have to go out and buy any as we found out the previous owner had put another layer of brick behind the 1st row. Have no idea why but glad he did.

Just finished Quiltville's Smith Mountain..........piecing that is and now working on her Bricks and Stones. I'm using veggie and fruit printed fabrics for the bricks as this is for a farmer friend but didn't have enough so decided to add a sort of solid fabric called Mirage from Connecting Threads. Well then came the arrangement and 2 people liked it with complimentary colors together as it takes 2- 3.5 x 9.5 together to make the block with flipping one upsidedown. Well when I was cutting and putting together the 4-patches (black & white) I wasn't figuring on that so didn't make enough to do it this way. Would have had to make up another 70+ half blocks and thought...........way too much trouble. Then I thought what the heck, I can use the leftovers for a lap quilt for myself for the library I'm working on out of the middle bedroom. So starched and pressed more black and white fabrics for the 4-patches last night and this afternoon I'll be cutting them into strips and stitching my fool head making them up again. Found another blender fabric at one of my local fabric stores called Shadow Play by Maywood Studios. Beautiful colors and fabrics. I'm in 7th heaven.
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