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A new Yahoo group has been started  by Tara Lynn Darr, author of the book "Simply Charming". Both I and Karen Martin of MooseBay Muses Blog have joined  with many others. It is for those of us who enjoy scrappy quilts! Here, I thought we all did!  I have   lost  misplaced my hexagons that I was working on last week .  I know that I shall find them, I even looked in my pocket. ( Inside joke) Not that I have nothing else scrappy that I am working on. For instance , my hexie diamonds which are scrappy, are just now getting put together with a black hexies. Also if you look back a couple of posts I finished "Virginia's Star Quilt "  by Lori Smith.  So the remnants did not go to waste ,  I used some in Pam Buda's , Journey Three Quilt , A Light In The Window.  The blocks are 3 1/2 " unfinished churn dash blocks. The red fabric was not in Lori Smith's quilt that I put together. However I liked it as an accent in this smal...

Just a couple of finishes to show you..... Got my table topper back and bound from the book "Elegant Quilts" by the Quilted Crow Girls. This is my label on the back. This is " Virginia's Star Quilt" by Lori Smith. Just need to iron it one last time. Now the next pic is my scrap leftovers from my strip set for my "Science Fair" quilt from Jaybird quilts.  I just cannot make myself throw the pieces out. so I sewed them together and will keep saving leftovers to use in another small quilt or table topper. What do you think? Chit chat later, Martha.

I prefer not to cut a square diagonally and sew two triangles together to make a square. I do not like those small points entering my sewing foot space or my feed dogs. Especially when I have to make 112 of them.  I prefer Jo Morton's method of cutting squares, marking two diagonal corners and sewing on each diagonal 1/4 " away from drawn line on both sides. Once all four lines have been sewn then comes time to cut! First cut a horizontel and vertical cross on your square. Then cut on your drawn lines that are diagonal. You now have eight half square triangles. You must now trim them to the size you wish. To do that I use My Eleanor Burns half triangle square up ruler! Love this ruler!! You leave square folded flat do not press yet. You will trim al sides at once , so coooool! I needed a three inch half triangle block so I put ruler with 3" marking on the seam line and cut both sides! Until I had a pile like this. Sweet! As my grandson wou...