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03-23-2026, 11:30 AM
#342
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Portage, Michigan
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You are all incredibly attentive swappers! I just checked again and we have more than half of the little birthday packages wandering about in the mail already. And it is only March 23!! You are a marvelous team of swappers. Thank you.
03-24-2026, 04:48 PM
#344
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Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: PNW
Posts: 1,913
I am headed out of state tomorrow, so I will kick off 2.5 day early this month. I finished the old candy UFO from many moons ago. not my favorite of quilts, but happy it is completed. 88" square, quilted with a wavy diagonal
03-24-2026, 06:48 PM
#345
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Location: Portage, Michigan
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Oh, my goodness that is a lot of 2.5s. I stopped calculating how my when I hit more than 1000 and they began swimming around in my head.. 
LAF, do you now how many you used? What a start of for the March 2.5 day. Looking for more pictures tomorrow.
Remember your "show and tell" does not need to be finished. Just a show of progress or even a solid "tell" of what you would like too do with your stash of 2.5's. See y'all tomorrow.
LAF, do you now how many you used? What a start of for the March 2.5 day. Looking for more pictures tomorrow. Remember your "show and tell" does not need to be finished. Just a show of progress or even a solid "tell" of what you would like too do with your stash of 2.5's. See y'all tomorrow.
03-24-2026, 08:01 PM
#346
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Join Date: Aug 2021
Location: Seattle
Posts: 218
LAF, I like it! I'm not finished with my latest candy project but I'll post what I have. I'm not sure how big it'll be, but not huge because although I have boxes of candies at this point, i don't have so much wall space. The other pictures are what I've been struggling with since January, the pattern is "two left feet" by Boo Davis. I told you all I was sick of it but would try quilting it anyway. It's very close to done, just a few spots left to quilt, but I bound it anyway just to get it off my table and on to my couch. Never did get really good at quilting circles, but I tried my best! It did grow on me after all those hours working on it.
03-24-2026, 08:07 PM
#347
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Location: PNW
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Wmu - I'm sure I could do the calculative math, but I don't have that level of energy.... I would estimate there are probably 1500 candies. only a few duplicates that I could locate. Most are from 1-2 years of candy swaps and whatever I cut from my stash. Look closely, you may find ones you recognize! (but you may be looking for quite a while!)
03-24-2026, 08:12 PM
#348
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Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: PNW
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wow, Pamelor! That is dedication to your quilting, so many pebbles! I do not have such patience. I did "pebbles" in a border once but simply could not mentally accept the idea of doing pebbles, too daunting. so I had to do it as a loopy meander but without the meander. it was my mental trick to feel confident to quilt it and to tolerate it as well!
03-25-2026, 07:01 AM
#349
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Portage, Michigan
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I am making progress on my 16-Patch Delight from QuiltingWithLori.com. This is about 1/4 of the quilt. I need to make about1/4 more of the miscellaneous blocks to make this LARGE quilt. (Too large for my quilt wall for sure. Oh, well. )
Today is stitch this amount together then repeat times three over the course of the next month.
)Today is stitch this amount together then repeat times three over the course of the next month.
03-25-2026, 09:01 AM
#350
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: WNC
Posts: 10,708
Well, here’s a first. My envelope was brought back to me bc I failed to put the postage on it. My carrier caught it apparently. Sooo. I’ll try again tomorrow. Will let you know when it’s picked up. Sheesh!
