Potato chips! That’s what you said, I’ve just spent ages looking for oyster cracker quilts 
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My quarterly goals:
Finish all the BOMs this quarter
Make a quilt for Barley the Bunny (plushie)
Make a nice wall hanging for myself
My bingo cards:
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This made me laugh out loud 
. Funny enough, I thought of you when I made that stash fabric call 
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My first quarter goals:
-finish t-shirt quilt top
-make quilted bear pillow
-make quilted kitchenaid cover
-make quilted zipper pouches
& my bingo cards:
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Can we mark off projects we post here if the numbers are called in the quarter or must we wait until they are called to post?
Anyway, here are my first quarter goals and my cards:
- Make a hanging quilted trash bag holder (a la @jellybean )
- Make a Halloween quilt top (a la @Immaculata )
- Finish baby bunny quilt for great niece
- Start colorwheel quilt (Cutting out pieces will take me a bit)
- Complete BOM for the quarter - Jan, Feb, Mar
Cards:
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My system is kind of like that. I have one bin in my Ikea Kallax that’s for “future projects that I’ve already got the supplies for” or “WIP/UFO’s”. Whenever I find something that I want to make, I put it in there, and I gather the supplies there. Then, when I get the “new project itch” I pull something out of there. It really helps to have the scraps you want to use, pattern, thread etc all in a bag.
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Ada napped, so I managed to do a bit more cleaning and declutterring. Hung Command hooks to hold rulers, thread, and tools. Declutterred threads. Then researched options for the final two blocks on this quilt, and cut one of them. Here are the pretty Ombre pieces for a Flying Around block.
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I use the shallow cardboard boxes from Chrwey the cat food boxes come in. I use them for current projects to keep things.contained and for.hopeful.fuyure projects, and yes, there arena few ufo boxes hanging around.
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I wouldn’t mind my oyster cracker idiocy if I’d ever even seen an oyster cracker, let alone having eaten one. We don’t have them here. I know them from the little house books, where pa is stuck in a snow drift for a few days and eats the Christmas oyster crackers.
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This is literally the only reason I know oyster crackers exist. The Dutch translator probably never heard of them either because in my Dutch translation they’re called oyster cookies.
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Do you guys just not have crackers that are specifically made for putting on top of soups?
Meanwhile, this is how the block is supposed to be made.
But I also have a pinwheel made from off cuts that I could use as a center.
Which do you guys prefer?
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Pretty! I vote pinwheel. Or a solid colour centre, maybe whatever you’re using for the binding.
Oyster cracker recipe
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I nearly spit out my tea! Oyster crackers are a staple in our house…and only a particular brand. We use them to top off New England clam chowder and tomato soups. If we want to get fancy, I toast them in the oven with some herbs and eat them as a snack.
Never made an oyster cracker quilt…omg…snort.
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Wow! I love the block with the pinwheel setting
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My first quilt top/UFO of the year is finished! I bought more fabric and spent a day or two contemplating and decided… no, it’s done. 50" x 58".
I started it a few years ago, ran across it last year and was going to finish it, then sewed 2 quadrants wrong, fixed that… then sewed the other two wrong and threw it back in the project bag for a few months lol.
Sorry no pictures at the moment.
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Had the 1930s Little House translator seen a picture of oyster crackers, I think they might have translated it as croutons or soup pearls, both of which are not exactly the same but a similar idea. But I think he simply had no idea what it was. Many of the foods have weird translations.
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Not here, we always have bread with soup. If you were really fancy you might have croutons (ie toasted bread). I have a friend from the US living here and she commented that the first time she had soup she was looking for crackers, and forty years later she still misses crackers when she’s having soup away from home.
And I like the Pinwheel, it really makes the block pop. You must be nearly done with this top?
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Yep! After I finish this block in a few minutes, I will just have 1 more to make, then I can put the top together. I want to get it done soon, so I can donate it to the Cunningham Children’s Home Festival of Quilts this year.
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I decided that I didn’t like the plain center, but I also wasn’t into the pinwheel. (I don’t know why, but I just really don’t like pinwheel blocks.) So I took the pinwheel apart and made it a diamond instead. Pretty happy with it now.
Next up is a Rising Star block (basically a sawtooth star within a sawtooth star).
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If you look at the top left square on the donated quilt you will see writing, in Sharpie, in the block. It’s names of biblical male characters. I am guessing this was a bible based block of the month quilt top, lap size.
I took apart the square and replaced the pieces with writing. Now to put it back in the quilt and finish this one off.
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