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This is one of the quilt pattern blocks from my Quilt Ladies, it’s a great quilt block of using up scraps, but if you plan colors out, it’s wonderful too. This is from my book “53 Quilt Pattern Blocks”
Finished Quilt Block Size 18” x 18”
Cut 8 Blue 2 ½”x 2 ½”
Cut 12 Lt. Blue 2 ½”x 2 ½”
Cut 21 White 2 ½”x 2 ½”
Sew Nine Patch blocks
Cut 4 Blue 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Cut 4 White 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Make Triangles
Cut 8 Lt. Blue 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Cut 8 White 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Make Triangles
Cut 4 Red 2 ½” x 8 ½”
February Quilt Pattern for YOU
Here is My little table topper quilt pattern for you. No calories, no watering and you can use up a few fabric scraps. If you are not into red right now, change it up and make yours any colors you like. Happy Valentine’s Day
Finished quilt is twenty inches by twenty-two inches
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You will need 9, 4-Patch blocks
Cut 36 squares – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″
Sew together to form 4-patch blocks
Lay them out and like color placement.
Cut 6 Dark – 4 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ and sew as shown, two in each row, making three rows
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Cut 4 – 2 1/2″x 1 1/2″
Cut 6 – 2 1/2″x 4 1/2
Sew into 2 Rows
Sew all Rows together to form center of quilt
Cut 2 Dark – 2 1/2″ x 16 1/2″
Cut 2 Red – 2 1/2 x 16 1/2″
Sew to the sides
Cut 2 Red – 2 1/2″ x 22 1/2
Sew to the top and bottom
You will need a binding of Cut binding 88″ x 2 1/4″
I machine pieced my quilt and use the fancy stitches to quilt it.
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I picked up grocery store flowers and just shot pictures, daisy photo’s, nothing better. I have been reading, “Perfectly Yourself” by Matthew Kelly. He says, about the phrase, Practice makes perfect, “Practice makes progress.” OK, mind blowing for me. Notebooks of ideas of quilts, watercolors, paintings to do and over thinking each idea and everything I do….Must be perfect, must to complete, must…must…be perfect. No, I need to just be me. I think maybe with more knowledge of photography, I have set myself up. Today, I let my own process be, I can just some how see it.
I hope you enjoyed the January quilt pattern I shared, if you missed any sections HERE they are. I have a new one starting this coming Sunday.
Cut 4 Orange- 3 7/8″ X 3 7/8″
Cut 4 Black – 3 7/8″ X 3 7/8″
Make Triangles
Cut 8 Black – 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″
Sew top and bottom as shown. Sew on Top and Bottom
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And then, he gave me all this…. All these wonderful boys, men and girls. OH God, thank you, I could not be any happier, any luckier, or any prouder.
AND the truth ! ! ! I’m typing this January 14 because RIGHT NOW, (the 18th) I am laying on a beach and will be for the NEXT FEW DAYS ! ! Purchase a quilt pattern ! TODAY !
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I didn’t get out this week to shoot any new pictures….these are my attempt at a photo competition???? and I mean I TRY ! ! This first one I LOVE, but I placed it in the documentary category, and it’s not a documentary photo??? After 3 emails and 2 phone calls, I knew…..it was not going to get even looked at. My Fault…. I titled it “A bit of Her Life” maybe they knew it was my life?
I have been playing with black and white. I love adding a bit of color too. That’s why the top one was NOT a documentary photo, but creative??
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Thank you for asking, my Mom is in a Skilled Nursing Center and settling in….Well? She can walk a bit with a walker, uses a wheelchair most of the time and since the surgery she lost all her bathroom abilities. Which I think is pretty common, from the talk around the lunch table with her. She is in a wonderful place, LOVES playing bingo, going to drum line, and she has found the spa ! She is not far from me, which is good too.
LESSONS Learned
ALWAYS tell the TRUTH: health issues suck, I know you/they are sick and no one wants to be sick, but talk about it, get it figured out, fixed and move on.
LAUGH, out loud and strong: Yes, it’s all serious, but we all know going into live, we are going to die in the long run. LAUGH
ASK the VERY hard questions, of yourself, of others, of services. EVERY thing you can think of, ask the questions.
FIND someone who you can say WHAT ever you need to say and will not judge you. Who will listen, and let you talk.
I have heard SO much the past months about empathy, and I think sometimes I just don’t have ANY ! Or maybe I just can’t have any NOW !
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other being’s frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another’s position.
I do get it….but, moving through survival mode. My way is, look, learn and solve the problem. What is needed and what HAS to be done. I can’t seem to find empathy at those moments, but isn’t that empathy too, getting it done?
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Here is a Complete quilt pattern for you. I think it’s a fun quilt because of the colors and the black making it pop. Over the next few days you will be
able to make the quilt as shown below. This quilt LOOKS hard BUT it’s just triangles.
I cut 3 7/8″ blocks to make my triangles, you can cut any size you would like. I made and quilted this quilt YEARS ago and I have used it as a table topper, a front door quilt and as a lay over the back of the couch quilt for color. My quilt has a finished size of 30 inches by 30 inches.
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For the center
Cut 1 Blue – 3 7/8″ x 3 7/8″
Cut 1 Orange – 3 7/8″ x 3 7/8″
Make Triangles How I make my Triangles
Cut 2 Blue – 3 7/8″ x 3 7/8″
Cut 2 Orange – 3 7/8″ x 3 7/8″
Cut 4 Black – 3 7/8″ x 3 7/8″
Make Triangles
Cut 4 Black – 3 7/8″ x 3 7/8″
Sew units as shown, sew to the sides. Sew top and bottom as shown and sew
Finished center of the quilt block.
Stop back and we will continue in a few days !
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All About Me, it’s been months since I’ve been able to say those three words, “All about ME” has a GREAT ring to it. I’m marking this as my year of Only HAPPY ! Writing yesterday made me VERY happy and I’m going to be doing a LOT more, “All about ME”
We had a fantastic trip to Dallas for the holidays and being on planes, subways and walking, with sounds of people all around us was decidedly wonderful. The holiday inner spirit of family life and of total strangers who smile, laugh or just a head nod in unison. I heard conversations over coffee, the hand shake of friendship and that exhausted Mom who said, “Pappa, please take the baby for just a moment.” His smile, his hand of love for them both, the holiday in perfect motion.
We are human, all blood, all one, please let us try to keep these moments, feelings and love inside for each other daily, weekly and forever.
