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Trees are budding and daffodils blooming...must be time for the Sauder Village Quilt Show!  Every year this fabulous regional show heralds in spring and an end to a long, bitter winter in the Ohio Valley. I dropped off my quilt yesterday afternoon and asked if I could take some pre-show pictures of Founders Hall.  The magical quilt team was scurrying around, accepting the checked-in quilts and sorting them by size and category. As soon as the over 400 quilts are checked in, they will close the doors, don their pointy "good witch" hats and quilted cloaks, and magically hang the quilts (instead of magic wands, I think they use magical rotary strip rulers to direct the process).  That center huge light fixture will be lit to add more light on the days of the show. They have a permanent, ingenious magical web of thin cables spun across this generous venue, just waiting for the largest quilts (you can see the grid if you look closely). Smaller quilts are pinned around t...

I am doing a 6-inch block swap with a couple of friends.  Most of mine will be hand applique and most of theirs will be pieced.  Their piecing is so perfect and mine is less than that by far, so I feel I am getting the best deal! The only rules are that the blocks must finish 6-inches square and must be made from Reproduction fabrics and scraps. Neither of us know what we are doing with them yet...not the ultimate size of the project, the number of blocks needed, the setting, NOTHING!  We are flying by the seat of our pants!  I am going to call it "Repro Madness" as a working title.  We will each make three of every block we come up with, then share. These are my first five offerings.  Some I am designing, some I am borrowing.  I drew the cherries.   Here I am, using my long beading tweezers, to place my freezer paper patterns on scraps of fabric...the tweezers really make all this tiny, fuddly stuff easier and faster for my clumsy fingers! This ...