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  • The Navy and Yellow Log Cabin Quilt- Changing One of The Fabrics and How It Looks Now

    August 6, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! It’s been a month or so since I published a post about the navy and yellow log cabin quilt. Between the last post I made and this post, I haven’t been able to finish the turquoise and grey log cabin quilt. Even though the turquoise and grey quilt is not done, the navy and yellow quilt is! In this post, I wanted to talk about my decision to change one of the navy fabrics in my quilt and how it turned out.   EDIT: I used two different watermarks in these photographs. One is for this blog, essieofwho.com, while the other one has the watermark I use for…

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  • The Navy and Yellow Log Cabin Quilt- The Cut Strips and Block Sewing Progress

    July 9, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! It’s time to talk about a new quilt! Earlier this year, I began to work on another log cabin quilt using navy (Or blue depending on the fabric) and yellow fabric. I talked about this fabric in a previous post here. As of the publishing of this post, the blocks are finished, the quilting is finished, and the binding is finished. Like with my Turquoise and Grey quilt, I was worried about problems I would run into while making it. Unlike the Turquoise and Grey quilt, the Navy and Yellow quilt had a major problem. Explaining what happened and how I fixed it will take some time to…

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  • The Patriotic Scrappy Quilt- The Fabric Choices

    July 4, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! The 4th of July is tomorrow! I’m excited to have a day off work. I’m also planning on eating steak and watching fireworks. This year, I planned on making a patriotic quilt. I bought the fabric and had a plan for it, but I didn’t move forward with it. Now that it’s the 4th of July, I’m a little disappointed I didn’t start on my quilt and can use it in my decor this year. Even though I’m disappointed, I wanted to share my plans in a post before I move forward with making the quilt.

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    The Turquoise and Grey Log Cabin Quilt: The Finished Quilt Top and Fabric and Batting Choices

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  • Beach Scene Quilt Panels (And Some Potential Future Plans for Them)

    June 30, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! After the problems with my turquoise and grey log cabin quilt, I decided to take a break from sewing for a while. Even though I’m on a break from sewing, I decided to clean out parts of my house. This is when I found more fabric. Some of the fabric was not longer good fabric (It was faux leather and was deteriorating) there were many pieces that were good. I decided to sort through them and see which ones I wanted to make or give away. This is when I found quilt panels I purchased a few years ago to hang on my walls. The panels are of…

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  • The Turquoise and Grey Log Cabin Quilt: Plans for Extra Blocks and Fabric Options for It

    June 27, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! In my previous quilt post, I mentioned I have extra blocks from my turquoise and grey log cabin quilt. In this post, I want to talk about what I plan on doing with them.

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  • The Turquoise and Grey Log Cabin Quilt: The Finished Quilt Top and Fabric and Batting Choices

    June 25, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! I’m still taking a break from quilt this log cabin quilt, but I also have work in progress posts I still need to publish. For this post, I want to talk about what the finished quilt looks like (Before quilting) and my choice for batting.

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  • The Turquoise and Grey Log Cabin Quilt- The Finished Blocks and Choosing the Layout

    June 23, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! The posts about the turquoise and grey log cabin quilt are back… for now at least! I needed to take a break from posting them. I ran into problems while quilting that made me frustrated. So, I needed a break from writing about the quilt and focus on other things. For this post, I will be talking about how the finished blocks look and the layout I decided to make for it.

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  • The Turquoise and Grey Log Cabin Quilt- Cutting the Strips and Beginning to Sew the Blocks

    May 14, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! It’s time to talk about sewing my turquoise and grey log cabin quilt! As of the publishing of this post, I have already finished the top of the quilt and is now waiting to be quilted. Yet, I haven’t talked about sewing it here on this blog. I decided to hold off talking about it until I finished the top. I didn’t know how long it would take to make the quilt, which is also why I decided to hold off talking about it. I already talked about making a log cabin quilt out of turquoise and grey fabric in a previous post. You can read it here.

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  • Some Thoughts About JoAnn Stores Closing For Good

    March 11, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! I know it’s been a while since I published a post on this blog, but unfortunately I haven’t felt up to writing. I keep going back and forth about what to write and if I should talk about certain things online. Right now I feel like I have more things to talk about on this blog than on my other lifestyle focused blog. Since it’s been a while since I posted, I decided to start by talking about my thoughts about JoAnn stores closing for good.

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  • Some Thoughts on JoAnn Stores and Their Most Recent Bankruptcy Filing

    January 21, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! I don’t normally talk about stores or brands and their business dealings, but I feel like I need to talk about JoAnn’s most recent bankruptcy filing. In 2024, JoAnn filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. I used to mention the JoAnn store many times in my sewing posts, but I stopped because I started to not shop there for fabric or DIY supplies. There were several reasons for this, but one of them is because the closest store to where I live became to hard to me to travel to. Despite my slowing interest in shopping at JoAnn, I also didn’t like the fabric selection they had. The quality…

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