Where's Waldo....err Rozita?

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Took this pic of the dogs playing in the leaves. Do you see two dogs?......Rozita is camoflaged and disappears into the golden leaves......lol ....she is just left of the fire ring....if you look close you can see her black nose

Happy Scrappy Houses

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Found the perfect project to use up the scrap bags that my husband purchased at various quilt shops during the time I was organizing my charm quilt. He loves rooting around in the bins to pick out the 'right' scrap bag....lol.

This is Bonnie Hunter, Quiltville, Happy Scrappy Houses. It is put together with 'wonky' sashing so the houses tip this way and that. It is a cheerful quilt that makes me smile.

I have been going thru the bits and pieces left from my SBS or Farmer's Wife samplers and cutting the two inch pieces needed for the windows and chimney and background squares. I am trying to make four or five houses each week. It is fun and in no time I will have a quilt!

Farmer's Wife Sampler

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Made three more blocks for this sampler. Love the 30's fabrics ....they are so cheerful and old-fashioned looking. These blocks will make a happy baby quilt!

Happy quilt with striped binding

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Finished the happy quilt for the foster grandbaby's first birthday. The back is a fabric that looks like ric-rac so I decided to use that for the binding. I LOVE the striped look and may use striped fabric for the binding on all my quilts....lol! The photo is a bit blurry but you can see the polka dots and stripes make this a HAPPY quilt.

I have not machine quilted on my prized Bernina for over a year so the quilting is a bit shakey but she is only a year old and won't be too critical. My biggest issue was the marking.....it kept disappearing! We started the woodburner so the humidity is high in the house and I would mark an area and as I was quilting it .....it would fade and disappear......kept me moving thats for sure!

Guardian Angel Chemo Quilt

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My good friend Mary Lou made this 'Guardian Angel' quilt for me to take to chemo with me. She used my favorite fabric (the dark apricot swirl) and favorite color scheme....peach and green. Angels are quilted in the white spots to guard over me while I heal. This touched my heart.......love ya ML!

Love those 30's Prints

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I now have eight 'Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt' blocks made out of 30's repro fabrics. Love how cheerful and happy these blocks look. I have collected 30's repro's since the 80's when Judie Rothamel first start producing them. I have three drawers full of them but have only made two baby quilts so far. When this new book came out I thought it would be perfect to use them since they are from the same time period.

Block of the week

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Working hard on Sylvia's Bridal Sampler quilt. This is the challenge Block of the Week. I have completed all the BOW's for the past two months except for one. This one is paper pieced......I HATE paper piecing. I keep hoping that I will do a block and everything will click and I will LOVE it.......didn't happen this week. I did alot of mumbling and whining.....scrapped one whole row and started over......I do love how the block came out tho, don't you?