The Big Boat

For those that had a holiday week this past week, hope it was great.  And I hope you had a great week even if you didn’t have a holiday.  I bet a lot of people are just getting back into town today, ready to get back to the grind tomorrow.  Or recovering from all that [...]

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Sue Speaks Japanese

I’ve never really been into Sunbonnet Sue.  I mean, I’ve appreciated her, but never really felt the need to make her.  Until of course last week, when I decided to do a Sue block of the month next year.  As I was hunting around online for the pattern book, I came across some fantastic Japanese [...]

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Sue BOM

House Swappers…I will be posting the official sign-up post on December 7th.  Be deciding what kind of building you want to make, they’ll be first come, first serve.  Check out this post for ideas on what to make.  I think there will probably be only room enough for 2 people to make each category, so [...]

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It Was Fantastic

Absolutely fantastic.  I don’t think many of my readers are Twilight fans, so I won’t go into giggly detail, but it was fantastic.  A million times better than the first one.  Have I said it was fantastic?

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Tonight’s the Night

I’m going to have to take a nap this afternoon so I can stay up really late tonight.  Why?  Why else?  New Moon comes out tomorrow and these midnight tickets have been burning a hole in my pocket since I bought them 3 weeks ago.  Yes, I will be fighting all those teenagers for good [...]

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Irons in the Fire

I’m thinking that in January I’d like to start a block of the month quilt, where each block represents a different month.  Kind of like that 3D Sunbonnet Sue quilt I showed a couple posts back from the quilt show.  Does anyone know of any quilt patterns like that?
Yesterday I decided to finally bite the [...]

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Babies and Bricks

I finished binding the baby quilt last night, washed it, and it didn’t fall apart.  So I guess I’ll go ahead and gift it.  I was thinking about keeping it and hanging it over the door frame.  So any time I thought about trying FMQ again, I could just look at it as a reminder.  [...]

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Davies Plantation Quilt Show

So this quilt show I went to last weekend was a lot different then I thought it’d be.  It was really pretty neat.  I don’t really know anything about the history of the Davies Manor, but it’s this really neat old house set off in a wooded area of town.  It’s on a bit of [...]

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Free motion quilting, you are a cruel mistress.  I spent 3 hours ripping all the messed up lines.  Not all the lines,  mind you, just the messed up ones.  I got down to just the fairly decent quilting left, which was about 1/3 of the quilt.  Because I’m stubborn, and I was tired of ripping, I [...]

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HELP!

I know I said I would post pictures of the quilt show today, but that’ll have to wait…
Freemotion quilting is the bane of my existence right now.  I’m at my wits end.  I’m about ready to hang up the rotary cutter and call it quits.  I started free-motioning the baby quilt.  It went really well [...]

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