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Sunday, July 19, 2009

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I got the top done this morning and it wasn't nearly as tedious as I expected it to be. Simple Pleasures isn't an example of precisi...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

and diet Coke is on sale at WalMart!

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Our phone rang very early this morning -- early enough that when it woke me up, I thought it was still night and someone in the family mus...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

This might work

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I took another look at the fabrics I'd decided not to use in the buzz saw quilt and picked out the two that might possibly work. The oth...
Sunday, July 12, 2009

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I am furious with myself! Last week, I cut the pieces for the cheery buzz saw quilt I've been planning (I can do that -- it's on my ...
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Thursday, July 09, 2009

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More than half of the Simple Pleasures blocks are done and I've had a chance to lay them out. My concerns about this quilt are rapidly d...
Saturday, July 04, 2009

binding and binding and binding

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At five-thirty this morning, the printer started running. I thought the cat had stepped on the copy button or something, but it seems to hav...
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Friday, July 03, 2009

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Dad has always been tremendously supportive of Mom's hobbies and mine. He's the one who bought my Janome as a Christmas present when...
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Monday, June 29, 2009

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I've tackled the list! Two sides of the Weed Whacker are sewn down. I got the background of the little chicken wall hanging pieced and t...
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Friday, June 26, 2009

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mustn't start anything new....mustn't start anything new...mustn't start anything new.... That's the mantra over at Stashbus...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

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Although I love the way that snowball blocks look in finished quilts, I'm not all that excited about piecing them. My latest pet project...
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Sunday, June 21, 2009

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I tried piecing letters today, inspired by the fantastic ones at Lazy Gal Quilting . Doesn't that Halloween sounds quilt make you wannt ...
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Saturday, June 20, 2009

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Just the thought of machine quilting has been making me skittish. Using the machine at all makes me a bit nervous. Not enough to keep me fro...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

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I am so in love with this quilt that I've even lost my bitterness about the selvedge bag with no selvedges in it . I might've made a...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

the excavation continues

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I'm slowly sifting through the mounds of fabric and patterns and half finished projects that've accumulated in the corner of the din...
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Saturday, June 13, 2009

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My deal with myself was that if I stayed strictly no-buy (which I haven't managed), I could start as many new projects as I wanted. So I...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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Today was errand day and we were on the road for hours. I really didn't think I'd get it all done, but the kids are signed up for th...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

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This afternoon, while I was trying to pretend that I thought my noisy little boys were actually taking a nap, I played with strings. Yes, I...
Monday, June 08, 2009

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We've been travelling. Which is great and wonderful and fantastic, but by the time we got home I was really looking forward to playing w...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

Miles of Muslin

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It seems like I'm always running out of muslin. The nice white muslin, not the tea dyed that I need to save for the sashing of the cat q...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

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When I first started knitting and quilting I read stories about how stash, sometimes lots of it, just fell into people's laps. Even afte...
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