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Friday, February 27, 2009

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I'm so proud of myself! I not only cut my way through ten yards of scraps yesterday, a goal which I thought would take a couple of days,...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

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Today, I'm cutting up fabric....some for a snowball quilt I'm dying to start...some for Fun With Bricks...some for a scrappy pineapp...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

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I found a moth in a skein of sock yarn, which pretty much describes how things have been going. I don't have the heart to rewind the ske...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

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I got the birds fused onto the quilt. Have I mentioned how HUGE this thing is? Now I get to blanket stitch around them, which is a lot harde...
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Saturday, February 21, 2009

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I'm in a lousy mood. I've been sitting here with two tops ready to assemble, not to mention a bunch of other things I could be worki...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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Despite my best efforts to waste the day online yesterday, that laundry room looks pretty good. I could still put the cans on the shelves in...
Monday, February 16, 2009

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I am a happy quilter. Yesterday I dragged all of the kids up to the President's Day sale at Joann's, hoping to come home with some p...
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Saturday, February 14, 2009

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Jerry's must have an impressive selection of telephone wiring -- by the time Bill got home from his expedition, I'd managed to finis...

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I need to make a quilt for a friend who's been having a rough time. Actually, far worse than a "rough time," but that descript...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

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With the Glittering Gems top done and the Birds in the Air top ready to assemble, I had to step back and see what else I was working on befo...
Monday, February 09, 2009

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The Stashbuster group is doing a Not So Ugly Sunshine Sampler. The first step was to come up with two yards of ugly fabric. I've got tha...
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Sunday, February 08, 2009

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Assembling the blocks into an actual quilt top is one of my least favorite parts of the process. I don't have a design wall or enough ...
Friday, February 06, 2009

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With all that's going on right now, it was either work on quilts today or go absolutely nuts. Something took a big chunk out of our favo...
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

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Even though we have karate and bowling and have to stop and get my oldest son's glasses fixed for the umpteenth time, I think I'm l...
Monday, February 02, 2009

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I've got six tops waiting to be quilted (seven if you count that wall-hanging in the sewing room that probably should be quilted one of ...
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Sunday, February 01, 2009

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I found my next quilt! There was another scrap quilt I saw a couple of months ago that had a buzz saw look to it, but at the time I was inti...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Mountain Majesties

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I was going to see how my blocks looked in the alternate layouts that the pattern suggested, but after seeing how they looked the other nigh...
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Monday, January 26, 2009

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Shirt buttons make a happy little plink when they're dropped into an old glass jar. I've got fantasies about making so many utility ...
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Sunday, January 25, 2009

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Yesterday, my best friend spent the day down here to work on her glorified nine patch. While she was pinning and sewing her curves, I worked...
Friday, January 23, 2009

more birds in the air

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I really like the way this quilt is coming out -- There are forty-seven blocks laid out here, and yes, they are facing the wrong way, but th...