Quilty Fun First Birthday

5:20:00 PM
Posted by Nanette Merrillin 32 comments

Hi Everyone.  I've missed posting to my blog and talking to my friends.  Life is pretty complicated sometimes and that is the reason I'm taking an elongated break.  
Happy Birthday to Lori Holt's Quilty Fun book.  I am joining the FQS  Jolly Jabber bloggers birthday party with my birthday cake block.  Fun to make and super cute.  You can make a cake yourself.  Lori has the pattern at Bee in my Bonnet.
-nanette 

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August-Sept Sew-It...today New Project

2:35:00 PM
Posted by Nanette Merrillin 18 comments

I really like working with the people at Sew-It...today magazine.  Recently they asked me to submit another project for the August-September issue. I made a kitchen project for the magazine.  Picking out fabrics for my projects is one of my favorite parts of any design. I like to bind smaller projects by machine and  keep my hand binding for larger quilts.  I can't show you my finished items yet but I will post about it sometime in July.  That isn't very far away.  We are sliding into summer

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Mother's Day

4:55:00 PM
Posted by Nanette Merrillin 16 comments

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Sew-it....today

4:33:00 PM
Posted by Nanette Merrillin 39 comments

Hello my friends.  It has been too long since my last post.  I've been busy working on other areas of my life but I'm really missing quilting projects.  I'm excited today to tell you my picnic scrap quilt is featured in the latest Sew-it... magazine. It is fun to have my quilt featured on the cover.  This is a great scrap project or a leaders and enders project. My friend Glenna is also featured in the magazine. It is nice to have a quilt to pack for a

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Better Late than Never

2:45:00 PM
Posted by Nanette Merrillin 23 comments

Don't you hate when a blogger gives you a sob story about why they haven't made any new posts or how busy and complicated their life is?  Well that is me.  I won't bore you with all the details but I will say that I had my entryway quilt and table still decorated with valentine themed stuff up until this past weekend.  That is so NOT like me.  I feel like a nightmare lately.  I blame my 2 kids on missions.  I'm kind of superstitious about no good

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Potholder Tutorial Rewind

8:37:00 PM
Posted by Nanette Merrillin 21 comments

"Doll House" Potholder Tutorial  Because of lack of material I'm doing a rerun of one of my tutorials.  I'm still not able to sit at my machine for very long.  Recovery from bursitis isn't very fun.   And I'm rather sick of myself not being able to do normal stuff.  So I thought I would rewind to a time when I was my old creative self.  This is such a fun house block.  It makes me feel good to look backwards at all the fun things I've made.

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Belated Valentines

8:27:00 PM
Posted by Nanette Merrillin 12 comments

I'm always so behind these days.  My life continues to be kind of topsy tervy right now but I'm learning to be patient with myself. I love red and Valentine's Day.  I love that it is just a sweet day and I take it with a no obligation point of view.  I choose to celebrate in fabric because the prints for valentines look so happy. I have very fond memories of sending valentines to my classmates and enjoying the valentines sent to me.  I used to keep the

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Sad and Happy

2:04:00 PM
Posted by Nanette Merrillin 34 comments

The time has finally come for Mason to leave to have his missionary training in Argentina.  Because of visa problems, his departure was delayed several weeks.  It was a little disconcerting to him to have that happen but he handled it well and the time passed quickly.  At least to me.  Mason takes things in his stride and I know that quality will serve him well while he is in Uruguay and away from home for 2 years. I know every mother thinks her kids are special, and

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Feb Sew Sweet Block

6:23:00 AM
Posted by Nanette Merrillin 13 comments

I thought I had my Feb 2014 Sew Sweet Block finished but when I looked at my block compared to Clover and Violet's block, I realize I did something wrong.  So I will probably be making another block. I looked at the pictures and directions on Clover and Violet.  I am not a newbie when it comes to log cabin basics.  I think I cut the strips out okay. But mine isn't exactly like the sample.  Hmm.  Oh well.  It was fun to make with cute aqua and

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Donna From Lavender's Nest Block

3:11:00 PM
Posted by Nanette Merrillin 12 comments

I'm happy to be included in the block swap at Donna's Lavender Nest.  January is Donna's month.  We know Donna loves lavender so that is the color Donna chose and she asked us to use this Jacob's Ladder pattern for a 12" block.  I had a pretty floral lavender fabric in my stash ready to make this block.  I've got to mail it off (I'm late) to Donna post-haste.  It was fun to just sew one block.  It was a nice fast and complete project for me to

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I haven't really sewn anything since before Thanksgiving last year.  It has been so long since I've been able to live my normal life but I'm getting better.  And I'm reclaiming my sewing machine.
I decided to ease with short spurts of sewing and with a simple project.  I made this table heart above a couple years ago.  I needed a gift for a friend and thought it was a perfect little project to remake.
I love working with 2.5" squares.  And I really think valentine fabrics are so sweet.  I used a combination of reds from my stash including some Pam Kitty fabrics.
I trimmed the heart and sandwiched the heart with a batting scrap and some valentine fabric.  Then I machine quilted the blocks in an X pattern.  Simple.  Still, even with a simple project, I had some unpicking to do.  I'm just a little rusty but I'll get it all back, soon.
All of you that are sewing along with Lori, you can put some squares together, too.   See Lori's blog and The Jolly Jabber for instructions.  Patchwork squares make me happy.

-nanette
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Quilty Fun Trees

9:56:00 AM
Posted by Nanette Merrillin 12 comments

So it is tree week in Lori's blog tour.  I really want to make some trees.  I haven't yet but I think they are perfect.  I'm still not sewing yet but I'm feeling about 35% improved.  I'm working hard to make it back to my real life.
I swiped these from the Jolly Jabber.  The tree is really well designed.  Of course!
This is Fat Quarter Shop's notion of the month.  And I want one!!  I can think of so many times I've needed something like this.

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