From Backing To Quilting!

It's the weekend after Christmas - I'm sure everyone is still pretty much in a holiday stupor, but hopefully getting things back together and able to spend some time recuperating in your sewing spaces!

On Wednesday (Christmas Eve Day) I spent a few hours at the QPO stitching the big pink behemoth backing together from the squares I had finished the previous day.

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Lupine & Laughter Mystery - Part Six!

Happy Boxing Day, friends!
"The Day After" can come with a sense of relief that we have made it through yet another Christmas season - 
I know many of you may still have family around and need something a bit lighter this week, 
So how about we put some more things together?

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Christmas Eve In Pink!

It's a crazy idea, right?

To spend an extra couple of days piecing a backing out of hunks and chunks of forgotten yardage when it would be SO much easier to just buy 3 yards of a wide backing fabric and be done with it and onto the quilting phase of things.  Right?

Maybe.  But then there are all of those trimmed margins of that extra wide backing fabric that would be considered good enough to save for future use - and then I'm just adding to the scrap bins instead of whittling them down.  

This is how my brain works on repeat!

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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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