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Monday, January 31, 2011

North Pacific

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Now that I've pulled out the pattern and pieces and taken a good look at it, I'm feeling better about North Pacific. It would be pos...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

#8

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I've been waiting anxiously to see what the UFO number for February was going to be, crossing my fingers that it was anything but #1 (Ch...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

limits

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I would've probably said that I didn't like limits on my quilting, if I hadn't been finishing these two quilts when the discussi...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

trying to be patient

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Wondered why I'm stressing so much over a binding? This thing won't be heading for any quilt shows, but it's turning out okay. I...
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Friday, January 21, 2011

sometimes you need a deadline

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Quilting the 30s top shouldn't have taken longer than an afternoon, maybe two. It's not a large quilt. I'm only doing a basic me...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

this quilt may be jinxed

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I've free motion quilted a couple of small quilts since my last tension war with the Janome. I don't remember having much trouble wi...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

done is better than perfect, I guess

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It's seriously tempting to just curl up in the corner of the couch and sulk, even when we're having a good day and I could get some ...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

We ask a lot of questions around here.

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Are rat skeletons really made of cartilage? What's a dredge? What's a towhead? Can we find a picture of a....? How do signs spin wit...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

15 minutes at a time

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Here's my first little quilt top of 2011, pieced in fifteen minute chunks of time that I pretty much forced myself to spend sewing. I th...
Sunday, January 09, 2011

burning yarn

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It might have been best not to let my teenage daughter come into the kitchen and find me setting lengths of yarn on sale with the burner of ...
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Friday, January 07, 2011

off to a lousy start

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Five years ago today, I had just been released from almost three weeks of hospital bed rest and was home in my own bed, expecting to rush ba...
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Tuesday, January 04, 2011

my little pool of light

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Have I mentioned that my house, especially my little sewing coroner, is dark? Especially in winter. With the dining room light on, and the l...
Monday, January 03, 2011

UFO #3

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This month's number is three, so I guess I've got to finish my 30s quilt . The quilting should be straightforward enough, if the mac...
Sunday, January 02, 2011

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I want a drunkard's path die. I think I might actually want it more than the isosceles triangle die I ordered a couple of days ago. Beca...
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Saturday, January 01, 2011

making myself a little crazy

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I'm making this a whole lot harder than it needs to be. I'm thinking no more than five squares of any one fabric...which would mean...
Friday, December 31, 2010

2010 Year End Totals

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This has been the year of the scrappy little baby quilt -- I finished 47 of them and would probably still be going strong if the group I ...
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Thursday, December 30, 2010

UFOs

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It's almost time to plunge into 2011 and start working on my UFOs. As far as I can tell, this is the complete list. I left out one top I...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Grandma's Donuts is finally done!

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I let this one sit forever before I finally got the binding sewn on. Now my oldest has claimed it because it's "crisp and not broke...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Bear Tracks

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I've finally been able to flip through the first of my magazines . I'm not reading anything, just looking at pictures and sticking i...
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Monday, December 27, 2010

Can I take the tree down yet?

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The little ones actually lost interest in the tree after the second or third day, so I've stopped venting my frustration on it, but ther...