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So nice to see your beautiful blocks Thimblebug6000, as always your colour combo is great. Love your attic windows and your microwave bowls. My DH would also love the eagle one
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Lovely blocks Thimblebug. Sure you can post your pictures here. I love to see what you're working on. The attic window is great! And so are your microwave bowls. Never made one myself, maybe I should if I can find cotton batting.
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WOW Mirabelle, your Fool's Puzzle came out perfect!!
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Have week 40 blocks finished this afternoon. [ATTACH=CONFIG]499916[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]499917[/ATTACH]
Guess I sufficiently scared myself when I posted about starting Bonnie's mystery next week.... gotta get Sylvia caught up! |
I have an urge to make this white and red, and on a couple of the blocks, have the Elf on the shelf eyes looking out, one of the pieces of fabric. I am weird.
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Originally Posted by Rhondals
(Post 6980200)
I have an urge to make this white and red, and on a couple of the blocks, have the Elf on the shelf eyes looking out, one of the pieces of fabric. I am weird.
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Beautiful Thimblebug. You should scare yourself more often :D :D
Rhondals, please post some pictures! Can't wait to see your blocks :) |
Are any of you ladies participating in this under the challenge tab? http://www.quiltingboard.com/quiltin...ml#post6979347
Thank goodness I don't have that book or I would be tempted! :D |
NO, I'm not. I had the book but sold it again. I was too intimidated and scared so I never started.
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Sorry Thimblebug6000 I won't be doing this. I purchased the book a couple of years ago and then put it aside when I realised it was all hand applique aarrgghhhhh. It takes me so looooong to do it that it would be a forever project.:D Now if I could do it my machine maybe that would make it more appealing ???????
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I've spent the day on and off working on my blocks while watching Bonnie's quilt cam....of course a friend dropped in so didn't manage to see the whole live one... but have been enjoying some of the older ones as I stitch up more Sylvia blocks... I can't believe how far behind I have fallen.
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I wouldn't do hand applique, no way. That'd take way too long, and it'd end up in a box waiting to be done.
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Spent the afternoon stitching more blocks... week 41, 42, 33, and 34 [ATTACH=CONFIG]500117[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]500118[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]500119[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]500120[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]500121[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]500122[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]500123[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]500124[/ATTACH]
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Thimblebug,
Your blocks are all lovely and in my colors. They are delightful. |
Beautiful blocks Thimblebug6000, I see a couple of Jinny Beyer prints in there, I always loved her fabrics
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Oh Thimblebug, you really are on a roll :) :) Beautiful blocks!!!
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Thimblebug6000, I love that tan/brown with the swirls. I have a scrap of it in green from my aunt's stash, and it is going into my Sylvia.
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Originally Posted by sue z q
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Thimblebug6000, I love that tan/brown with the swirls. I have a scrap of it in green from my aunt's stash, and it is going into my Sylvia.
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Has anyone heard from auntjo? I was so enjoying her pictures!
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I just checked back and see that auntjo has posted in other areas, so not to worry. She has posted a gorgeous quilt Farmers wife one..... obviously a very busy quilter!
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I am about a year behind, but would love to join the group. I have a few blocks finished, but I am having trouble with "y"seams. I will continue on. I have only read about 20 pages of the posts, and have written down the numbers for the different weeks and will begin. As I read more posts, I may start with your most recent weeks and work backwards. I have been admiring all the pictures of the completed blocks.
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Originally Posted by QuiltingNinaSue
(Post 6625841)
Good to hear from you MamaHen. I have sooooo many projects to do but life has a way of interfering with my plans... trying to do Sylvia, 50 fab Stars, Dear Jane, SYE, and a Tennessee Waltz quilt on the side. But my bone-on-bone right knee with Arthritis is not allowing me to use the sewing machine, and fingers cannot do hand work, so I sit and imagine what I could be doing. Like 8 blocks for Sylvia, 5 Fab Stars, 10 Dear Jane, and 3 SYE, and 50 54-40 star blocks and 49 snowball blocks for TW. And there's housework to do as we are having company coming in for a week on Monday. I have earned my pilot's license this week, piling things here and moving it there. In time it will happen. Meanwhile, I will enjoy seeing everyone block's posted here and enjoy our warm weather and sunshine. I wish you all the best of the best.
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very nice blocks everyone.!! I am going to pass on this one tho. I did 2 Dear Janes and now have to move on to other things. Am going to something with BIG blocks for a while. lol. Will look in often to check on everyone. Just dont call me the Quilt Police. Jo
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Nice to see you Sophie2! Check on Anael's postings because some of the blocks she had a PDF for that showed easier ways to make those blocks. Rather than a Y seam she had split the square.
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Originally Posted by thimblebug6000
(Post 6985008)
Nice to see you Sophie2! Check on Anael's postings because some of the blocks she had a PDF for that showed easier ways to make those blocks. Rather than a Y seam she had split the square.
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Welcome Sophie2 :) You can do it, just ask if you're having problems with a block. Sometimes a block can be redrawn to avoid the Y seams. I can make a tutorial with pictures on Y seams if you would like that.
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Welcome Sophie2, can't wait to see your blocks
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Originally Posted by sue z q
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I'm working on H7 and look at the size of it! I'll be interested to see if anyone else has this one coming out so large. Thought I was making 1/4 inch seams: maybe not!
Wow...what a lot of pieces! Did you work on yours again? |
On Block H7 can someone please check their directions for me. My version says to cut 4 squares at 2 7/8" from the green and cut in half diagonally once to make 8 green triangles. They have turned out to be too large. I think there may be a correction to the block in the newer printing of the directions. Thanks!
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Hi thimblebug, my book says :-
Cut 4 squares 2 3/8th, Cut each square in half diagonally once to make 8 green E triangles. Maybe your book has a misprint - mine is dated 2009. |
Thank you so much! Off I go to trim them down... it's not the first misprint, that's why I asked here before getting too frustrated. :D
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http://www.ct-publishing.com/errata/10686.cfm
Here is a link to the errata for SBS from the publishers. |
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Thanks for the link.
Here are my blocks finished to date, I know I'm ahead now but I'm starting Bonnie's mystery this weekend and wanted to put away all my brown/blue/cream scraps to bring out the other colours :D As before I tried & could not do 43 and 44 so substituted other blocks; [ATTACH=CONFIG]500338[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]500339[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]500340[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]500341[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]500342[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]500343[/ATTACH] |
Great job Thimblebug :) Love the appliqué !
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I have gotten thru the complete thread and plan to restart my blocks soon. Love seeing all the blocks you have all posted. First I need to finish decorating the house, wrap Christmas gifts and finish quilting one quilt I started quilting the first of the week. The last SBS block I tried was A6 a star block that is paper pieced and has "Y" seams. Can anyone give me hints on the "Y" seams? I tried doing them as Kaye Wood suggested by leaving the needle in the seam, reposition the block and continue on. I've been able to do it on a larger block, but it didn't turn out good at all with the 6" block. I had trouble turning the small amount of fabric under the needle. Thanks in advance.
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DottieD, that site did not work for me to access the corrections. Is there another solution? Thank you.
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Originally Posted by QuiltingNinaSue
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DottieD, that site did not work for me to access the corrections. Is there another solution? Thank you.
Updates and Corrections - CT publishing See if that helps. Let me know if it doesn't and I will try something else. Kind regards. |
"click here to download a pdf of the revived illustration showing its placement" part does not work for me, saying location has changed... that is the part I cannot access. Sorry, I can get to the first page....not the illustration.
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Yea I am cutting the Bonnie H. MQ now too. hope to see some of you there.!!!!!
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Originally Posted by DottyD
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Hi thimblebug, my book says :-
Cut 4 squares 2 3/8th, Cut each square in half diagonally once to make 8 green E triangles. Maybe your book has a misprint - mine is dated 2009. |
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