Quilt: Gwen’s Stars!

[I was going to show my sneak peeks on my "Presents" Quilt today, but I decided to give the honor to my quilting teacher who recently finished "Gwen's Stars"! I really want my Sew-and-Tell buddies to see this quilt!!!] This week, you have seen the “retired” baby shoes. You have seen the work-in-progress Birth sampler [...]

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EVERY Quilt a learning experience

I had a hard time deciding how to quilt my presents block. I doodled on paper, and just couldn’t quite visualize how the block was going to look after being quilted: Since I couldn’t make up my mind, I decided to go ahead and jump in with the quilting and see what happens — Trial [...]

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More Presents!

Good day, Friends! I hope you are having a cheerful day! You have seen these presents: How about MORE presents?! This is a project I am working on for Quilter’s World. What do you think I should name this quilt with all these cute presents? I need some suggestions! I will have more pictures for [...]

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Birth Sampler: Part 2

Baby’s Birth Sampler has become my “downstairs” project lately. The definition of “downstairs” project can be found here.  This is the progress I have made so far: The following are the symbolic meanings I have found for the various motifs: 1. Tulips (stitched in yellow) symbolize Perfect Love.  I pray that Baby would know that [...]

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Retired!

I am putting up these shoes that were retired by Baby a couple of months ago… I loved these baby leather shoes. I had bought the shoes, thinking that those straps would keep Baby from kicking her shoes off. They didn’t work.  The straps were good at making sure we didn’t actually lose the shoes [...]

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