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- – Trailing Along – -

Posted in Embroidery, Quilting, tagged , , , on August 24, 2011 | 14 Comments »

I’m back to work on my Island Trails quilt this week.  Yesterday, I was able to do quite a bit {thanks to my “sick” monster who kept us home all day}.  First, I attached the border.  I know that was really jumping ahead, but I was so over working on the small details.  I decided [...]

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Windmills & Threads

Posted in Quilting, tagged , , , , , on August 10, 2011 | 13 Comments »

W.I.P. There’s just something about them.  Not many things can catch my eye like a windmill.  The strength of their structure is so gracefully vulnerable to the power of the invisible.  It’s magical.  Truly, I can gaze admiringly for long stretches of time.  There are bunches of them on The Big Island of Hawaii’s most [...]

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Island Locations {WIP}

Posted in Quilting, tagged , , , , , on August 3, 2011 | 9 Comments »

WIP IT WIP IT GOOD! I jumped ahead on my Island Trails quilt to step 5.  Yup, it made more sense to applique the island’s locations and then hand stitch their names.  Working around the hand stitched names seemed limiting.  Who wants that?  Am I just delaying the hand stitching?  Probably.  I have about 5 [...]

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the BIG island

Posted in Quilting, tagged , , on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

On Wednesday, I jumped ahead on my Island Trails project without showing you steps 1 & 2.  This is due to me skipping ahead without totally completing them, so naughty!  I had an unexpected day off yesterday, so heaps of projects were completed.  5 loads of laundry {washed, dried, folder, hung, and put away}, dead [...]

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