It's Coming Together!

My design floor is full!

Or at least it was as I was putting this beauty together.

"Why don't you use a design wall?" comes the question I know I'm going to find in the comments.

I do not have wall space in the studio.  If you've been inside, you'll know why.

And I just find this easier.  When blocks get sewn together, they often don't stick to a design wall without pins.  I don't want to deal with placing and removing pins.

And it's good to bend and stretch and rearrange while I can.

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Crackers & Jam & Winter Solstice!

Things are coming together faster than I thought they would!

Of course, those little cracker blocks have many more small pieces and took longer to stitch/trim/de-paper than these blocks - 

Before I knew it I thought I had all that I needed and the layout process began yesterday!

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Binding In The Done Column!

It's done!

And it was well worth waiting for.

I had cursed this quilt, I had cursed the quilting machine having issues and the 2 months that it sat partly quilted, unable to go further -

And I cursed myself for not having the knowledge or the know-how to just jump in and fix everything myself.

And yes - all of that was exacerbated with worrying about Jason and the brain tumor surgery and recovery and everything that came between the quilting machine malfunction and last week when I was finally able to resume quilting.

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Lupine & Laughter Mystery - Part Five!

FIVE GOLDEN RINGS!!!

But not Five of a kind for this part -

Guess what we start doing today?

We're going to start putting some things together!

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