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 Here I am back at the computer trying again to write down all the things that are in my head that I want to say.   First of all, check out the BOM’s on Tara and Brian’s website https://www.quilted-connections.com .   It’s certainly not too late to sign up.  I’ve been working on the first couple of blocks of Graphic Jam, and the fabrics are way too scrumptious.  It is paper pieced, which is my love, and very simple to assemble.  It actually looks way harder that it is.  Every colored block is done in parts that go together easy.  For the My Favorite Color is Moda BOM, all I have so far are the instructions.  The fabrics are delayed a bit, but the blocks are all different sizes and simple sew also.  Hopefully this will start very soon.  Check them both out.  I did go a couple nights ago to pick up the new quilt that I designed from the quilter.  Finally decided on a name – Night Thoughts.  Can you guess why?  Most of the blocks were designed in my dreams.  I do my best work in my slee

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Well here we go for my very first blog post.  Brian and Tara said to just write about what you are working on and what inspires me.  Lots of quilts inspire me, that is a problem.  So, I keep writing down ideas and projects that I want to share with everyone and you will be hearing about them as time goes on.  First and foremost, for about a month now, I have been designing and working on a new pattern for a Block of the Month for Quilted-Connections – Let’s just say QC for short.  A while back I spotted a quilt someplace that I couldn’t get out of my head and it started the wheels turning.  If you know me at all, you know that I love creating something different.  So I went to my computer and started designing blocks on my Electric Quilt (EQ8) program.  If you have never seen or used EQ8, it is a quilt designing program that has a function to draw quilt blocks, or it has pre-drawn ones too.  You can color them using fabrics and then insert them into the quilt design.  The great thing i