Glowing Hearts QAL - The Parade!

Welcome to the ninth annual Parade of Quilts for my Quilt Along! First of all, I want to pause, as I always do, and think of you, Dad, on this day. You always thought it extra-special when your birthday happened to fall on Father's Day. I miss you still. I know you would love that my Quilt Alongs always end with a parade on your birthday.

I am so excited, as always, to see the lineup! It's such a thrill, and it never gets old, seeing what people do with a design of mine.

Simple Satisfying Sewing

Maybe it's because my heart is aching so for the Palestinians, maybe it's because my throat feels utterly constricted with rage, maybe it's because this world seems so wilfully angry and ignorant, but I've been doing just what the title for this post says: sewing simple, quick, easy, satisfying little makes. You saw the collection of makeup bags in the previous post. Well, I made my orange churn dash block for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge colour of the month,

I'm having fun finding appropriate 5" centres in the colour of each month!

Eight Makeup Bags!

From time to time I seem to go through spurts of making makeup bags. When I recently, as in over the past month, sold five, this was one of those spurts.

Some of these grew out of a need to make room in my 2.5” squares tray, others from a need for a gift, and still others because of sewing leader/enders, or finding a fun zipper I just had to use.