Meet Cheryl Lynch!
Good morning there, my friends. I am so happy to be back to the blogging. It has been a long summer and an even longer autumn here at the Blue Nickel. We emptied and sold my Dad's house and now our house is sold and we...
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TerifiCreations Blog Tour
Hey there, Welcome to this morning! I thought I would wake your day up with this hot pink quilted image from a new book on Color/Thread and how they interact in Quilting by my friend Teri Lucas ! Teri and I go way back! To 2011...
August 2, 2020
Meet Christa Watson!
So do you remember back to the beginning of this year? I barely do. One of my big goals this year was to bring new life into my blog. It is not easy because it is so much more work than Instagram! But you can say...
May 18, 2020
Enchanted Kingdom
Welcome to Kristen Balouch's Enchanted Kingdom! I have been sitting with this fat quarter bundle for awhile trying to think what bigger project that I wanted to do with it. I started playing with it awhile ago here, but I got distracted for a bit....
May 2, 2020
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The Gingham HST Project
I am a Hoarder Saver, you know. I save all of those little corner pieces that get cut off of mitered joints on binding and the corners of squares and rectangles when you add a corner - Snowball block style. And then eventually they get...
Ocean Park – The Story Behind the Cloth
Hey there, thought I better formally introduce to you to Ocean Park here on the blog. I have been mentioning it in Instagram posts quite a bit in the last few weeks, but no mentions of it here. So for today, I thought you would...
Back to the Country
Today I have a special post brought to you by my dear friends at Country Threads. I have known Mary and Connie since I first discovered the "professional" world of quilting back in the early 90's. Yeah it's been awhile.Mary and Connie were THE THING...
NGAQB2 – David
So Finally, I have finished my last round on the Last of the Seven No Girls Allowed Quilt Bee 2 that I worked on with John Adams, David Barnhouse, Nicholas Ball, Giuseppe Ribaldo, Molli Sparkles, and Christopher Thompson. It is the Second NGAQB I have been...
Valdez Quilt Festival
Hey there, I just want to share a little bit about my fantastic trip to Valdez, Alaska for the biennial Valdez Quilt Festival the first week of September. (photos are all from my iPhone - some better than others!) The scenery was so sublime! Valdez is...
June 24, 2018
Tie One On Tjaps – Mini Stories
Today's post is a continuation of the Tie One On Story - primarily the Tjap Mini Stories of the each design motifs. Posting quite a bit later than I had originally planned, but here it is!! The Tjaps (pronounced "chops" but I want to call them...