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Continue reading →: Starting the Eclipse QuiltYesterday was the day to start working on the Eclipse quilt. First I had to clean off my work surfaces in the sewing room and that took over an hour. Things had been piling up while I worked on moving the blog and website. For those of you who wonder…
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Continue reading →: A new veterans quilt topI get together with my quilt club to sew once a month and that time was the last 2 days. We have a great sewing space and we can leave our machines set up overnight. I use that time to work on veterans quilts and this week I got this…
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Continue reading →: Ready for new projectsLet me start with the new website. You’ll need to switch over there soon! I will not be posting here much longer. Here’s the info The blog is at vickiwelshmakes.com , you can subscribe for emailed posts on the site.For Feedly, Inoreader of Bloglovin you can find it at https://vickiwelshmakes.com/feed/ These new projects…
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Continue reading →: Veterans QuiltIt was so nice to stay off the computer yesterday and do some quilting! These two veterans quilts came together quickly with no thread breaks or tension problems. I love my Innova. I don’t know who made this one but I like it a lot. This is the second one.…
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Continue reading →: I made great progress!I’ve done two main things the past 4 days. In the morning I’ve been helping Chris chop up a big cherry tree limb. When he pointed it out to me, it looked like it was about 10″ in diameter. In reality, it was about 25″ in diameter at the trunk.…
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Continue reading →: FocusingThis is the extent of the sewing I did yesterday. I’ve decided that I want to put most of my energy this week into getting the website and blog moved so that it won’t be hanging over me anymore. I’ll give myself a sewing break to sew some of these…
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Continue reading →: Crochet and lighting updateMom and I dropped our machines off for service yesterday to a new sewing machine repair place. We are quite hopeful. We have not had any good options around here for a long time. The people in this new place were so nice and attentive. I think a lot of…
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Continue reading →: Spa dayIt’s spa day for the sewing machines, not me. I’m not a spa kind of girl. I don’t really love strangers touching me. But these machines are due for some TLC. The Juki, my favorite machine by far, is well overdue. I’ve had this machine over 30 years and I…
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Continue reading →: Little ProgressI haven’t gotten a lot done in the last 2 days. On Thursday I worked early voting. It was another slow day and I added almost 4″ to my scarf. This pattern is fun to crochet. It’s mostly front and back post double and treble crochet. Unfortunately this photo is…
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Continue reading →: The last of the placematsWell, here it is, the last of the placemats! The last for now anyway. I always like making them so I know there will be more. These were made with leftover fabrics from the Red Sunset quilt that I made 2 years ago. I’m sure that the napkins were dyed with the…
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I’m Vicki
I’m Vicki Welsh and I’ve been making things as long as I can remember. I used to be a garment maker but transitioned to quilts about 20 years ago. Currently I’m into fabric dyeing, quilting, Zentangle, fabric postcards, fused glass and mosaic. I document my adventures here.
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