Orange Crush – Pineapple Crush – Decisions Decisions Decisions

| April 20, 2008

Many quilters from all over the world are at this very moment happily completing Step Two of the Orange Crush Mystery Quilt designed by Bonnie K. Hunter (if anyone is interested in joining in on the fun – go to www.quiltville.com.)  Weeks ago, while waiting for our Step 1 instructions, many of us (including yours truly) selected our […]

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April Birth of a Sampler – THOUSANDS of 1 1/2 Inch Squares

| April 20, 2008

I wonder how many other quilters have ever cut so many extra strips of material that they could almost make a WHOLE quilt with the leftovers?  I guess I got CARRIED away with making my little 1 1/2″ square four-patches for the round (shown below) on my Birth of a Sampler Quilt because I had an embarrasssing number of […]

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TA DA Step 2 of the Orange Crush Mystery Quilt

| April 18, 2008

Oh what a stretch it was to go TOTALLY SCRAPPY on this!  I was feeling more brave about mixing “EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK” with each block that I pieced.  My grandma used to make quilts like this – and so I am trying to give up control and fight against my “CONTROLLED AND ORGANIZED GENE” […]

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Wakefield Quilt Retreat – April 3-6, 2008

| April 6, 2008

The WAKEFIELD QUILT RETREAT was an adventure… ….a lot of fun…. and it was a great learning experience!  I REALLY learned SO MUCH. The first thing that I learned is that these women are A LOT OF FUN TO BE WITH! We laughed a lot – and we even found an additional NANCY (#3 – […]

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Step 1 of the PINEAPPLE CRUSH MYSTERY QUILT is Finished

| April 1, 2008

Bonnie K. Hunter, of Quitville.com posted our assignment for STEP 1 of the Orange Crush Mystery Quilt (mine is a PINEAPPLE CRUSH MYSTERY QUILT!) on March 31.  It was supposed to start April 1 – and in AUSTRALIA, March 31 WAS April 1st.  So we all got a nice surprise – our STEP 1 a […]

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