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Month: August 2025

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Quilting

Full reverse rudder

31 August 202513 September 2025 melle

Tried to make some progress on CJ’s t-shirt quilt, but I’ve pretty much screwed myself with the stabilizer. It’s

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Binding

Here I don’t have to be quiet

30 August 202516 September 2025 melle

Debated binding types, but in the end felt like using my tape maker. Managed to only over cut the

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Quilting

Inside the longest rabbit hole

29 August 202513 September 2025 melle

So that was…an experience. Still not a fan of the walking foot; convenient, since I broke it. Alas, not

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EPP

On to the next

27 August 20251 October 2025 melle

Open project baskets shouldn’t lie fallow for long. I have an inkling for my first pattern design, but sticking

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Binding

Last gasp

26 August 202531 August 2025 melle

Secured and replaced any quilting that escaped the edges. Could have been more careful blind-stitching the facing, but not

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Binding

the weather is sizzling hot

24 August 202526 August 2025 melle

Normalcy returns. Best to clear something – anything – off the table before inertia’s sticky little fingers come calling.

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Quilting

Beetlemania

21 August 20252 September 2025 melle

Survived the final hurdle of the summer and filled my air travel quota for at least a year. Hopefully

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Piecing

One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it

11 August 202511 August 2025 melle

Hand-quilting is so. slow. but can’t test the walking foot until something else is franken-fitted for duty. Should also

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Loose Threads

Getting back on track

10 August 202530 August 2025 melle

Been a week with nothing but hand-quilting. Getting itchy again, but inertia is an ass. Starting with what the

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Quilting

Slow but steady

3 August 20253 August 2025 melle

Last minute hems pressed, busted dresses repaired, hangovers survived. Back to the needle. And a little retail therapy. Weddings

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Out of Context

For me—the camel’s back was already well and truly fucked.Mike Carey
Dead Men's Boots

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