Design Wall Monday--Catching Up
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by AnnieO
6M ago
 Design Wall Monday--See more design walls on Judy's Small Quilts and Doll Quilts blog.  I disappeared for awhile, due to computer issues mostly.  I have been sewing and have a finish to share.  Grandson Hunter's quilt is all finished.  He chose all the fabrics and the yellow thread for quilting, as well as most of the machine specialty stitches I quilted it with.  It is very busy but he loves it. I used Hunter Green sashing and the backing is a Hunter Green flannel, very cozy.  His Mama sent me a pic of him eating breakfast wrapped in his quilt the next m ..read more
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Slow Sunday Stitching-Moon Over Blackbird
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by AnnieO
7M ago
 Slow Sunday Stitching— I’m spending pleasant minutes here and there on a free Lizzie Kate Fall stitch—even though Fall seems a far off place with all the heat/humidity lately. Moon Over Blackbird has been fun to work on   I like these pre-stretched blanks for quick projects. I’ll put another thread length or two into the project before heading to the sewing room. I was at the ironing board last weekend while we were waiting on Hurricane Hilary, it was raining pretty well when the Ojai Earthquake hit. We’re not that far from Ojai so it was very scary—lots of aftershocks. We felt th ..read more
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Surviving Hilary and an Earthquake, and Quilting
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by AnnieO
7M ago
SO, we are being deluged by Hurricane Hilary the now Tropical Storm,  a first for California in over 100 years.. After meeting our son and grandsons at the park and watching our daughter in law play soccer this morning (she's playing goalie), it began to rain as we left, and has been raining ever since, pretty steadily. I spent most of the morning thereafter in the sewing room getting a quilt top sandwiched.  I was still in the sewing room when we had a 5.1 earthquake strike Ojai, 20+ miles away.  It was quite a ride during the quake and for many aftershocks thereafter.  Fo ..read more
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Fair Entries and a few Pics
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by AnnieO
8M ago
I finished all my entries for the Ventura County Fair and took them down to the Fairgrounds on Thursday after work.  Due to the short time-frame between the X-Games and the Fair opening date, there were still a lot of workers trying to get rides set up, long after 5 pm. Many food trailers and other concessions were waiting, too. The Fair opens on August 2nd. Here's the DMC Floral Bouquet stitch finished in the hoop with wrapped ribbon.  I found the iridescent blue ribbon at Michael's--it matched the blue flosses perfectly.  I added my initials, but then needed to add another flo ..read more
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Design Wall Monday--Catching Up
Annie's Quilt Orts Blog
by AnnieO
9M ago
Design Wall Monday--see more great design walls on Judy's Small Quilts and Doll Quilts blog.  Well, didn't mean to disappear for so many days!  I've been busy working on projects to enter into our County Fair. Only a couple more days before all entries need to be finalized online.  I got all the quilting done on this large throw made from long-ago leftovers from another quilt. I abandoned something fancy for the purple/green blocks and kept it simple with a crosshatch.  Our Nieces crocheted some adorable chickens--and stuffed them, embroidered the mouth and eyes, all wh ..read more
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Slow Sunday Stitching--Choosing a new project
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by AnnieO
9M ago
 Slow Sunday Stitching--see some lovelies on Kathy's Quilts blog.  Having finished the Lori Holt Stitch Card project last week, I poked around the Hoosier cabinet for a new start. I found two options caught my eye the most....  A Blackbird Designs small....no recollection of where I got this but I love the bird and the border.  I have never made a little pillow like this but have seen displays of smalls in old dough bowls that are lovely.  The other choice is a free pattern I downloaded ages ago. It is from 2018... I like to color! The giant pineapple and fat black ..read more
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Slow Sunday Stitching--Lori Holt Stitch Card Strawberry Finish
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by AnnieO
9M ago
Slow Sunday Stitching--Kathy's Quilts blog.--See more sweet hand- stitching there. I have a finish to share.  The Lori Holt stitch card project has had more attention and I have finished all the stitching I planned to do.   I combined motifs from a different stitch card to fill up space on the prestretched Aida blank. I think it turned out sweet. A nice green ribbon around the frame should finish it off.  These stitch cards are so cute.  I used single strawberries and modified the daisy motif from the top left stitch card.  Next I'd like to stitch the teacup, bu ..read more
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Design Wall Monday--Fixing Meadowland
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by AnnieO
10M ago
 Design Wall Monday--see more great quilty things on Judy's Small Quilts and Doll Quilts blog.  A  problem quilt has been hogging space in the sewing room for months--my Christmas print version of Then Came June's Meadowland quilt.  In December I had done some free motion quilting of motifs with freezer paper, and then attempted a candy cane in the rectangles along the edges of the quilt, which bombed.  The quilt was in time out and taking up space since then.  I finally got sick of looking at it and revisited the issues. The main one was that I had a LOT of threa ..read more
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Design Wall Monday--Baby Girl Quilt Finish
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by AnnieO
10M ago
 Design Wall Monday--see more design walls on Judy's Small Quilts and Doll Quilts blog.  I meant to link up this morning and ran out of time, then forgot all about it when I came home for lunch, but I have a finish to share.  Binding now completed. Boy, it seemed to take half the afternoon to go all the way around this small quilt made for my nephew and his wife's first baby--and my brother and his wife's first grandchild. A wide solid turquoise strip brought it up to size.  I used a leftover light block made from the Meadowbloom jelly roll as a label.  I'll put th ..read more
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Slow Sunday Stitching--Another Baby Quilt
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by AnnieO
10M ago
 Slow Sunday Stitching--see more projects on Kathy's Quilts blog.  After I finished the teal border on the Lori Holt Stitch card project,  I decided to add a few tiny strawberries in the corners.  I showed the first on a prior post, but ran into counting issues and it has been in time out the past week.  I think I will just go ahead and leave it be, add the last strawberry and see! Other hand stitching today is quilt binding on a baby girl quilt made from 2.5" strips.  The blocks finish at 6".  My arms got quite a workout turning this quilt  1000 times ..read more
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