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Spoonflower’s Geeks
Last year Spoonflower had a contest titled Fabric 8, in which they selected 8 contestants to design a line of linked fabrics. I loved following that group and reading about their choices. This year’s…
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It’s Wednesday, so WIP on
Finally! I have a use for my phone app, purchased so long ago and hardly used. Anyone else like that? Yep, it’s Wednesday so that means I’m thinking about my works in progress. Well,…
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Feather
When Suz of PatchworkNPlay said she wanted to do an Anna Maria Horner Feather for her monthly block (I think that link will get you there or just Google it), I started in on…
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Doleket, deconstructed
When the theme of fire was announced for our Four-in-Art group, I immediately thought of all those days spent roasting marshmallows over campfires, just like Betty did. And then afterward, when people would gather…
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Doleket: Four-in-Art #3 Reveal!
Doleket While no one really knows how the prophet Abraham came to know God, many a rabbi has told a tale, a midrash, about this event. One famous one is how Abraham came upon…
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WIPs, early
I have the Four-in-Art reveal tomorrow, so am writing about my works in progress today. DONE Take Me Back to Italy, both a Schnibbles quilt and a Finish-A-Long quilt Four-In-Art #3 (check back tomorrow)…
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QuiltPro Quilt Software
I’ve used QuiltPro software for about a decade now, choosing it first because it worked on a Mac as well as a PC (I’m a Mac user, and Electric Quilt has ignored people like…
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Take Me Back to Italy!
I have this thing for Italy. So when I saw Va Bene!, a line of fabrics depicting scenes and buildings and landmarks from Italy, it had to come home with me. Many of our…
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WIP–Not the last person to post–Wednesday
The last few weeks I’ve been the last person to post on Lee’s WIP Wednesday over at her blog Freshly Pieced. Or at least in the last five. There’s a whole bunch of us…
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Christmas Treat Wallhanging
So, out here on the old sewing ranch-a-roo, I finished up Christmas Treat (name is courtesy of my husband) and took it outside to pose for pictures. The front. The back is an old…
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And the Razzy Award Goes To. . .
First, congratulations to Beth Baird, on winning the Practical Bag Pattern with this comment: “I would totally love this kind of a bag. Our grocery stores no longer give us plastic bags, so this…
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Christmas Lollypop Tree Wallhanging
I finally was able to stitch down the petals, dots and branches of my Christmas Lollypop Tree Wallhanging, figure out the borders (I referred to the antique Lollypop Quilt for ideas) and get it…
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Hat Trick, version #1
Okay, this is version one. I wanted to use my Dear Stella Va Bene Italian fabrics and you can see the problem in the “mushy” effect it has. The reds pop out and you…
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The Winners and Other Musings
Congratulations to Mary of Mary on Lake Pulaski who won the Hot Stuff bundle, and Nita of NitaDances won the boy fabric and the Power Tool button. I’ve had fun going around to people’s…
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I’m Featured on the Name Game!
Today Cindy of Live a Colorful Life is featuring this blog on her series titled, The Name Game, where she highlights a blog whose name she likes. I’m more than happy to be one…
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Cranking out those Lollies!
Cranking is probably the wrong word. It takes me the better part of a day to get one of these pinned, just because I have to leave time for pulling out all of the…
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Really? It’s Wednesday?
I’m not yet “jammified” (in my p.j.’s) but I could be, for how energetic I (don’t) feel. Bob Hope noted that “You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.” So…
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Finish-A-Long First Quarter Wrap-Up
I joined Leanne’s Finish-A-Long because I had too many quilts malingering in the closet together, and thought this might help me. This post is a wrap-up of my first quarter with FAL. My opening…
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Wonky Pillow Shams
Breaking News!! Last Finish-A-Long Project Slides Under the Wire! Pillow Shams Now in 3D! Ooooh! And a reminder for Sewing Corners! Check back tomorrow for a complete wrap-up of the first quarter of Finish-A-Long…
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Snapshot: Polaroid Quilt finished
Debbie of A Quilter’s Table hosted a Polaroids swap last summer, and although I put together the top fairly quickly, I didn’t send it to the quilter’s because I wanted to do the quilting.…
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This and That for a WIP Wednesday
Many thanks to Lee of Freshly Pieced Fabrics for hosting all of us quilters on WIP Wednesday. Picked up this pattern at the Glendale Quilt Show and slid in one more project before my…
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Bostonian Bag and a Wrap-up
While this post has lots of pictures of my recent class, the Bostonian Bag (which they titled Bag Bostonian), it is NOT a tutorial nor are there any patterns. For this you’ll need to…
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Chris’ Welcome-to-the-Family Quilt
This is where I was Wednesday morning, after listening to hours and hours of a new audio book: Beautiful Ruins. My mother’s still reading listening to it, so I’ll withhold my review until later.…
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Another Sashless Quilt
Starting another sashless quilt, based on what I did in the Sunshine and Shadow Quilt Tutorial. But this one’s for my newest grandson Chris, adopted into our family this past December. Chris is eleven,…
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Hot Mitts
No, this isn’t a reference to our past election and Governor Romney. This is in rereference to my hideously stained and abused and damaged kitchen hot mitts. I went to buy some new ones…
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