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Beez Progress Report

Posted on February 16, 2026 | 5 comments

Many of you said that these stitcheries needed color and I agreed.

I went bold.

I had several bee prints that I thought I would use but ended up setting most of them aside. They just weren’t ‘doing it’ for me. Too dark against that black border. Or too white, and not enough color. Whatever. Go big and bright!

I will probably tone it down with more of that black sashing. We will see.

For now, it will marinate while I do some mundane things.

Like clean house…a necessary evil.

Have fun and carry on!

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Charms from the 90’s Finish

Posted on February 13, 2026 | 11 comments

I took those old 1990’s charms and finally made a quilt with them!

The quilt is about 42 inches by 52 inches. No particular reason for this size, except for the size, number and layout of the blocks that I ended up with.

The quilt was machine quilted on my domestic Janome.

Some of the quilting was done with a walking foot, and some by free motion.

I like how it turned out!

I might be motivated to play with some more of these 1990’s charm squares and move them out!

How about you?

Do you have old charms that you were inspired to use? If so, what did you make?

Have fun and carry on!

Charms from the 90’s

Charms from the 90’s Update

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Charms from the 90’s Update

Posted on February 9, 2026 | 18 comments

I settled on a star layout for the half-square triangles made from the 1990’s charm squares.

I don’t have a large wall, or the floor space, to lay out blocks, but we all make do with what we do have.

The stars are set with squares and this was simple to stitch up.

I had enough parts left over (including the odd sized half-square that I threw in the parts department and retrieved) to make two more star blocks for the back.