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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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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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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