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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Busy Bee

It looks like we’re going to have enough interest to do at least 1 or 2 groups of 9 people for the House Swap.  I’m going to get the details all together and then put up a details/official sign-up post in the next couple of weeks.  If you’ve already told me you’re interested, I’ll send [...]

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Accountability

I’m a list girl, I always have been.  I think it comes from the fear of forgetting something important.  If I don’t write things down, I spend so much energy trying to make sure I don’t forget, or feeling like I have forgotten something but not being able to figure out what it was.  So [...]

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The Verdict

Since there were several people interested in the quilt top giveaway, I’ll do a drawing for it and let ya know who gets it.
A while back, I posted about the quilt top I made about 13 years ago, affectionately called ‘the ugly quilt’.  You can catch up here.  I was thinking about cutting it up [...]

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I Didn’t Know Any Better

I’m so excited!  I’ve just signed up for a photography class this fall.  It’s just a little ‘continuting education’ class that will meet 4 evenings in October, but I can’t wait.  I really enjoy taking pictures, but I don’t have any idea what I’m doing.  If a picture turns out well, it’s luck.  So I hope [...]

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A Scrap-Saving Tip

Karen, over at Sew Many Ways, blogged about this tip a while back, and with all the flying geese I had to make for this Neptune quilt, I figured I’d try it out.

After stitching the seam down the middle for the block I needed, I also stitched another line, 1/2 inch towards the outside, the [...]

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2 Witches and Shirley

On top of the blocks that I made for Jane’s halloween swap, I swapped a few extra blocks with some ladies, because you can never have enough blocks, right?  I received 2 of them this past week, and I just had to show them off, because they’re just so great!
This first one is from Caroll.

I [...]

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Another One Checked Off

My first t-shirt quilt is done!  I’m excited.  It actually came together a lot quicker than I thought.  Although that’s largely to do with the fact that my mom help me bind it.  We sat on opposite sides of it, and each bound  half.  It goes so much quicker that way, and the company made it fly [...]

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Experimenting

So I hate to hand stitch binding, that’s no secret.  But lately, I’ve been reading a lot of about doing it all by machine, so I knew I had to try it.  Just for the record, I won’t be doing it again, but I wanted to share my results with you.
So I stitched it by [...]

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It’s Also the 8th Planet

I’ve been admiring Tula Pink’s Neptune line for awhile, but had never purchased any.  I recently saw a really pretty Neptune pattern in August’s American Patchwork and Quilting, and decided it’d make a great Christmas present for a certain somebody.  Apparantly a lot of people thought the same thing because all of a sudden, it’s a bit harder to get ahold [...]

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