Elaine Adair Pieces

 I clicked something following the comments that were NOT published, which seems to have changed back to "Allow Reader Comments".  Yep they are now visible.  Thank you for not giving up on me!...

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  A few new pots of posies, didn't hurt this pretty day.  

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Here are approximately 20 quilts of various styles that I'm hauling, in prep for a Trunk Show still in the planning stage. The biggest decision is how many will fit in my small car !  8-)))   ...

https://elaineadairpieces.blogspot.com/2024/04/preps-for-trunk-show-and-workshop-also.html

 I am working on another Kaleidoscope quilt and have been obsessed with exchanging wedges between 2 slightly related blocks.  While the blocks appears difficult, it is one of the first I learne...

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 Apparently I am "stuck" on this design, the fifth I've made recently.   This is ready to be gifted. The back ...,  This is all straight-lined quilted with 2 sets of double lines thro...

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Finished!  I learned this "system" from Jackie Robinson /Animas Quilts, called Strip and Slash and  purchased her DVD years ago.  Her method is precise, and productive, as well as an effective...

https://elaineadairpieces.blogspot.com/2024/02/2468-pieces-more-kaleidoscope-blocks.html

What is that?  My second sewing station is a door on 2 file cabinets with the machine on the door, and a chair slides under the work area between the file cabinets.   Occasionally the  top ar...

https://elaineadairpieces.blogspot.com/2024/02/minor-improvements-in-studio.html

 See that teal and turquoise block?  It's looking like "transparency", an effect I'm liking.  The center blocks were all sewn and machine quilted traditionally, and I actually used a pattern.�...

https://elaineadairpieces.blogspot.com/2024/01/progress-adding-borders-qayg.html

  If you add DARK corners to the outside Kaleidoscope block, the entire "look" of a regular Kaleidoscope is altered. I added the fused triangles to the one piece border when it seemed ...

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  Quarter Log Cabin in Blue .  Friend Linda "cleaned up her sewing space before company arrived" and donated a LOT of lovely blue fabrics to the FREE TABLE at our local All Day Sew.  I sn...

https://elaineadairpieces.blogspot.com/2023/10/another-quarter-log-cabin.html

 Just playing with variations.  mmm how to border it ???  Kinda "heavy" with so much action.  I wanted to make the star main focus, but perhaps plain wedges would have been better.  Live and...

https://elaineadairpieces.blogspot.com/2023/07/kaleidoscope-variation-quarter-log.html

THINK PINK -  This was made up by All Day Sew friends, from gifted PINKS.  Some of the sewists wanted to learn a little about QAYGo, and also String Quilting, so many contributed to this projec...

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  Wow - trying to find where my photos got downloaded is a new trial!   G'daughter asked me to make her a Hawaiian quilt - a new kind of quilt project, so I found this book of patterns, al...

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Latest kid QAYG.  Batting squares aland backings were already cut and counted, kid-like prints were all in one place.  Life is good.   It went together in about one month.   A little c...

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  * This QOV was donated, as well as 2 kids quilts  * I made a LOT of zip pouches until zipper stash was depleted.   * Made a pleasant drive (2 days) by myself to Indiana to surprise m...

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  I'm still here - just overactive - am feeling darned wonderful, energetic, going in too any directions at one time.  Above is some playtime after picking up a bunch of strips from the Guild...

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    Many of these cutsies are from many of YOU!  Thank you Jody, Carol, Candace, Elsie, Alice, Anita, and others!  8-)))  Also, Thank You Janet for the 4.5 in ruler which meant I didn't...

https://elaineadairpieces.blogspot.com/2022/09/another-i-spy-quilt-ready-for-gifting.html

Another kids quilt, a QAYG, which turned out pretty kyoot!  I'm loving it.  I was extremely exacting on the measurement suggested by Marti Machell.  The final stitching is done from the fr...

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  I've had this collection of small mola patches for years, then misplaced them, and voila, recently found them.  Decided to make them up into little pouches before they get misplaced agai...

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A few days ago, Janet O  (Rogue Quilter, https://roguequilter.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-25-year-old-finish-flange-binding-and.html)  sent me a message that I had won something - oh dear, I don...

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  Sometimes, a simple border is best.  Thank you to several blogging friends for the excellent suggestion.  

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 I mentioned my gifted bag of scraps in a previous post.  At first glance, that bag didn't look very appealing but the simple job of sorting them into lights and darks encouraged possibiliti...

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  I made the WELCOME banner long before I finished the quilt.   The banner was made from the quilty crumbs. There are 20 blocks in all. Perhaps I should just name the quilt "WELCOME" ?...

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  (It was held a little crooked. )  We said "use taupe", and we were aiming for "Low Volume," and "use what is in your stash"  and "something different."  The blocks were made my members of...

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  This favorite quilt was finished several years ago, from Quiltville, from one of Bonnie Hunter's books, -- she called her pattern Day Break.  Despite looking fiddly and painful to deal w...

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