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When you start free motion quilting, you are told to just do an all over meander, keep everything curvy and don’t overlap your lines. It sounds easy to someone who has been quilting for a while. But to a true beginner, that can be very intimidating.

You have to learn how to create smooth even curves, pointy points and move around the quilt top with an even quilting density without backing yourself into a corner all while keeping your stitches small, but not too small with a consistent stitch width. That’s a lot to handle if you’ve ...

The Kindle Fire, Kids Edition was a huge hit. I had her open that package last and she said “This is what I’ve ALWAYS wanted!” Chad used to say that about everything. I guess all kids do. Vince would say “Always . . as in since the day you were born?” She went to bed...

Oh my goodness...I do not tolerate hot weather very well. Our lawns our crunchy and dried; in the vegetable gardens, the long storage onions are ready for gathering a month ahead of schedule & all the pea vines have given up despite frequent watering.

As much as we appreciate having central air, it gets claustrophobic quickly. We have just returned from 6 days in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and even there it was quite warm. I had looked forward to relaxing outside our RV doing some hand stitching, but instead stayed inside with the A/C units running. Our ...

I've been saving this to share with you for the last few weeks - life has been hectic!  This is from my son-in-law, Mark A:

Build-A-Stitch Online Class - FALL SESSION! There are many people that can't travel or are unable to attend when I teach at national events. There are also people that just prefer to learn in their own environment. Well, if you are one of them, here is your chance!Build-A-Stitch ONLINE interactive class will be offered this fall! Class begins October 26th - registration for this first

I’ve been writing my blog for 10 years, at first I found it hard, but knew I should do it as I knew it was a good way for everyone to see the work I was doing, finally I realised I actually enjoyed writing it. Throughout those years I have tried to keep my posts only about my work and love of textiles, and maybe a couple of times, have I ever mentioned my family. Some people say they have no interest in facebook, instagram etc, for me it have given me lots of joy, keeping in contact with ...

Najwięcej związanego z akcją dzieje się na Facebooku ale jej efekty są tak piękne, że bardzo chcę się tą radością dzielić też z czytelnikami mojego bloga!
Mogłoby się wydawać że szycie workoplecaków spowolniło z powodu wakacji ale uwaga uwaga:
uszytych i zdeklarowanych jest 570 worko-plecaków, a 270 jest już w Afryce!! 
Dziękuję zaangażowanym za to, że jesteście, szyjecie i rozsiewacie wieści o szyciu! Workoplecaki nadal są potrzebne więc działamy!
A kto nie słyszał o szyciu workoplecaków dla dzieci w Afryce niech koniecznie zajrzy na ten post
http://szycieuli.blogspot.com/p/uszyj-worko-plecak-dla-dzieci-w.html

I do grupy na Facebooku

Reading stories to Addie sometimes cracks me up. She has comments about everything. She’s not much of a joker and takes everything so seriously. She worries about the characters. I would never read Bambi to her. I started reading the first Little House on the Prairie book to her last night. We got to the...

As you know by now, my daughter raises show pigs, trains them, loves them and then shows them at the fair.  After showing them at the fair, she spends time in the swine exhibit letting children ask questions and pet her pig.  On the last day of the fair, she shows her pig one more time during a huge auction and people from the community bid on her pig.  The highest bidder then works directly with a butcher and ultimately ends up with a lot of pork in his or her freezer to eat all year long. Lots of people ...

It was a mish-mash of activities yesterday. When it was all finished, there was progress on some fronts, but most everything was just halfway to the end. As usual, I started the day with some slow stitching and filled what was left in my hoop.

It was a mish-mash of activities yesterday. When it was all finished, there was progress on some fronts, but most everything was just halfway to the end. As usual, I started the day with some slow stitching and filled what was left in my hoop.