I Won Some Ruby!

I am a winner...heehee...of  a giveaway over at Connie's Quilting by the River.  I won this:

Thanks Connie!  (Have you read her blog?  It is wonderful!)  I have ideas swirling in my head about how I will use this charm pack.

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Progress on the Owl Quilt

My owl quilt is progressing very slowly on account of some math errors and from spending a lot of time with these two little buddies who have been under the weather.
 

I usually get some inspiration here and there, and then work out the math myself when I make a quilt.  And yes, I do make errors and always learn what a dunderhead I can be something.  This time I borrowed some math that was "off".  I didn't discover the errors until I had the entire quilt cut out and had sewn a row or two of blocks..okay half of the blocks.  Ugh.  Rip, recut, resew, resize...sometimes more than once for a block. (Sigh. Did I mention I am a s-l-o-w learner?)  Moral of the story...we all make mistakes.  Check your math before you get too far into your quiltmaking.  Here is where I am:
 

I am really happy with the final design.  I hope to have this quilt in the mail to its sweet recipient and be able to show it to you all within the next couple of weeks.

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Aboriginals

I found a couple of Aboriginals from M&S Textiles for my collection.  Yes, I need to USE it instead of just hoard it.  I also found this great black and white check from Michael Miller.  It's a gingham print.  There were several colors.  I used constraint and only got this one.  Can you ever have enough checks and dots?

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