HERE'S A HINT -----

It's been snowing like crazy; plus, I've been trying to stay out of the way of workmen remodeling our bathrooms.  It is a win-win situation as I get to hide out in my sewing room.

I'm getting close to the finish of setting my Little Medallions into a quilt top.

 I'm ready to put a border on it.

Next week ---- hopefully, the finished top.

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THE LAST OF THE MEDALLIONS

The last couple of days I have been sewing up 19 more little medallions that I had cut recently while organizing my scraps.

That brings the total up to 62 4" blocks.

Which means I have used more than 180 different fabrics from my stash bins.  That is not even making a dent --- I'm guesstimating that I must have over 2000 different fabrics accumulated over the last 40 years in those bins.  In my defense, some of those scraps are no bigger than 3-4 inches square each.

How did that hoarding habit happen????  Over the years, my purchasing mode of operation has been fat quarters. I always preferred 4 different fabrics rather than a yard of one fabric.   When I would travel to quilt festivals, etc., I set a budget and would buy as many fat quarters as I could ---- enough years and quilts equals a lot of scraps.

This has been a fun project for me as it really feeds into my love of fabric design, color, scraps, and fussy cutting.

I have an idea for setting these medallions together --- hopefully soon for my next blog post.

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STASH BUSTING

Slowly, I'm making headway on my many bins of scraps.  I'm still working on my boxes of greens; plus I opened that old box marked 'paisleys and plaids'.  I've discovered more fabrics that cry out for some fussy cutting to make small medallions.

 I've made 15 more medallions.

 And, now have a total of 43.  

I'm getting anxious to decide on a setting option and a color to hold it all together.

My goal is about 60 of these 4 1/2 inch squares.

I'm sure I have at least 15 more boxes to go through -- slow going as I'm trying to sort, press, and refold.  Then I get distracted and make more little medallions!

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Love Laugh Quilt for Monday Making
Cooking Up Quilts for Main Crush Monday
Quilt Story for Fabric Tuesday

APRIL'S THROWBACK THURSDAY

For Throwback Thursday this month, I thought I would share three of my paper quilts.
Occasionally, I like to use design skills I've learned from my quilting experiences to work with bits of paper.

This paper quilt is taken from a fabric quilt I made called "Mother's Kitchen".

Rather than make a fabric quilt to commemorate a trip, it is much more efficient to make a small paper quilt. 

I've made several paper quilts to celebrate holidays.


More of my paper quilts can be seen by clicking here.

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NATIONAL TARTAN DAY - APRIL 6TH

On National Tartan Day, I'm sorting through my plaid scraps. There are more than just these few yet to be uncovered.

I've always been Mad for Plaid -- today would be a good day to start a plaid quilt, if only I wasn't knee deep in other projects.

Happy Tartan Day!

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