Quilting with the Dread Pirate Rodgers! aarrggghhh!

I belong to a Facebook Scrapbooking Layout group.  One recent post showed a background made of concentric circles woven with vertical strips.  Questions were asked for directions but the or...

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A Long-term UFO finally is finished! Long before October 2012, I had accumulated a collection of brown and red "vintage-y" looking squares, about 7" big.   I made a few quilt tops with th...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2021/04/vertical-diamonds-quilt-from-2012-is.html

O.M.G.  I almost can't stand it. The 28 border blocks with their accent circles In my last post, I mentioned that I have completely, totally, absolutely, positively FINISHED all the borde...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2019/09/deco-garden-border-blocks-done-floral.html

My focus lately has been on my heritage scrapbook albums.  I finished one maternal line of my husband's, going back as far as I could reasonably verify, which was to a gentleman named Andrew ...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2019/08/deco-garden-bonus-block-37-border.html

bonus block 41: Blue Bubble Flower I've not been quilting so much these days.  Another passion of mine is genealogy, both my family and my husband's.  Over the past years, decades for so...

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Bonus Block 44 - red rose (although I chose coral):  Every year, my (extended) family takes a tent camping vacation at Calaveras Big Trees State Park in California's Sierra Nevada mountains...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2019/07/deco-garden-latest-blocks.html

DECO GARDENS NEEDLETURN APPLIQUE PROJECT Reeze Hanson's "Deco Garden" Back in 2015, Reeze Hanson of Morning Glory Designs   released an applique BOM, which she titled "Deco Gardens".  Thi...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2019/07/starburst-blossom-and-deco-garden.html

the finished applique (not yet quilted) This hasn't been a Forever Project™ for very long.  Mr. Pirate and I recently went on a short road trip to a nearby quilt show in Shingle Springs, ...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2019/06/reverse-applique-project.html

or ... Returning to blogging Diagonal 9-Patches (1/2017) unquilted I recently read a blog by Jessica Sprague  , where she talks about her hiatus from blogging.  Jessica is an extraord...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2019/06/so-where-were-we.html

Wow ... the pressure is on!  Benita of Victoriana Quilt Designs invited me to participate in her September 2018 "Quilter's Meet -n- Greet"  !   This is very exciting because you, the reader...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2018/09/victoriana-quilt-designs-quilters-meet.html

Shimmer Braid with original pieced border Waaaaay back in 2015, I saw a post from the Fort Worth Fabric Studio, in which they were announcing a new kit available at the time.  The name of t...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2018/08/shimmer-braid-top-completed-3-years.html

When last we met, I was working on Esther Aliu's "Stash Busting Stars" and had left you hanging at the half-stars used in the borders.  Totally my fault.  For a long while, I had been in the ...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2018/08/stash-busting-stars-top-finally.html

And *just like that* .. bingo! ... half-star #4 was finished! oooooooh!  I'm half way done with the half-stars!  A milestone! Work continues with half-star #5, using the dark hued striped...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2017/03/stash-busting-stars-half-star-4_15.html

Yup, here it is, in all its glory ... the next completed half-star! This makes #3 of 8. If you count the fabrics from the center outwards, #1 is the blue diamonds #2 is a pink floral #3 ...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2017/03/stash-busting-stars-half-star-3.html

Having finished all my full Stash Busting Stars, I have turned my attention to the half-stars that are needed for the layout. Here is the second half-star I've completed. And then ... liste...

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Wow ... I have FINALLY completed my very LAST full Stash Busting Star!  It was 5 months ago in September 2016 that I started this project with the VERY ambitious plan of doing a star a week. ...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2017/03/stash-busting-star-11-ribbon-box-top.html

On our 20th wedding anniversary in 1999, we returned to Tahiti, where we had gone for our honeymoon.  I discovered there were no fabric stores on the main island of Tahiti ... certainly not an...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2017/02/tahitian-pareau-needleturn-applique-ufo.html

Every February, the online quilting forum group I belong to has a real live quilting retreat in Phoenix.  This year was our 15th gathering.  Over the years, we have forged true friendships on...

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I have been remiss in posting my Stash Busting Star finishes.  Let's blame it on Christmas, laziness and traveling.  That'll work for me. :-) Here is Star #7, finished 12/26/2016. Here i...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2017/02/stash-busting-star-7-8-9.html

Like many other longarm quilters, I use doodle cloths to practice new-to-me quilting designs.  I load muslin as a the top, whatever batting I have on hand (frequently splicing small pieces toge...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2016/12/doodle-cloth-recycling.html

All righty then, Quilting Public ... I'm doing an all-over fill that *I* have called 'nested clamshells' but a Google search with that term results in a big goose egg.  I've gotten suggestions...

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I recently posted about a 21 year old UFO that I finally assembled into a top.  Well, this is another long term UFO, although not 21 years.  :-)   From one of the ladies who participated, the...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2016/12/machine-embroidery-ufo-is-now-top.html

This post is going out all over blogland, in the hope that some of the ladies listed might see it and remember our quilting friendship on FIDOnet of long ago. It was back in 1995, that I (...

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I started this UFO this past October .. about 2 months on the calendar.  I do apologize for the weird photo.  My sewing room isn't very wide and I needed to use a wide-angle lens on my cell p...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2016/11/pinwheel-ufo-top-is-now-finished.html

I'm continuing working on my current Forever Project™ .... Esther Aliu's "Stash Busting Stars".  I've finished star #6. Only 3 more full-sized stars to go!  (and then 4 quarter stars and...

https://pirate-sr.blogspot.com/2016/11/stash-busting-star-6-and-another-ufo.html