Ray is a busy guy…if he isn’t at the longarm, he’s opening mail, taking pictures, and sending emails to me so I can share them with you. Here is his latest. He writes: Carrie sent me an email that she and her daughter love to make quilt tops. They had made several and wanted to share …
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read moreI’m back to digging into old emails. This is so embarrassing… This one came from Paulette after she finished a kit a blog reader sent me. She wrote: I sashed the blocks and put a stop border and outer border on using what the original maker had sent along with her blocks. It turned out about …
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read moreAbout that new author I mentioned yesterday - Iona Wishaw. Her latest book is coming out on April 29th, although Daphne noted that it's already out. If you live in BC, she's doing book tours and signings, and you should go! It's great to support our authors. I hope she can get a more extensive reach! I finished the book yesterday and I loved it. Lots of thinking and fact contemplating, which I love!
Let's support our Canadian authors. And for our US neighbors, I do read lots of US authors, but I'm always excited to ...
read moreRay has a finished quilt…and mail to share with you today. He writes: Laurie T. in TX made this beautiful quilt and sent it to me. I love all the red and blue hearts in the quilt. With Valentine’s Day a month ago, I was somewhat torn as to whether it was a Valentine quilt …
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read moreDon't ask me about the comments on the blog or how they work. Sometimes people's names appear with the comment, sometimes comments are posted anonymously, and at other times, their status changes. Others want to comment, but they cannot. I have NO idea why. I should investigate the matter. Maybe there's some help feature that I can find.
Good grief -- I just did a Google search and came up with this. Which I think most people know. I think the main thing is that you need a Google account to reply, and you must be logged in ...
read moreI recently got an email from Ann. She works with quilters to provide quilts for a group called Wrap-A-Smile. I am including this here on the blog as I know there are many of you out there who make and donate quilts to worthy causes. Ann writes: Hi Jo, I would like to introduce your blog …
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read moreJazz has been busy working on quilts. She has had these done for a bit but hasn’t sent them my way in fear of overfilling my inbox. No worries. I am keeping up with email weekly and still working on deleting what I can. It’s totally okay to send me an email anytime. Hello Jo! …
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read moreDid you notice what I missed yesterday? As I was walking the dogs, where I get my most profound thinking done, I realized that if I don't change the pharmacy on my chart at the doctor, they will merrily send the next prescription to the old pharmacy, which hopefully won't be for a year, but I'll forget by then. So I called the doctor to make that change. Good grief - they need the fax number. FAX? I didn't have that, but when I went to pick up the prescription, I got the fax number, so that ...
read moreYou might remember my hard work in cleaning out my email. I’ve done very well and have maintained that email account so there are no more than 10 emails ever in the account. I’m so proud of myself for that…but I have a second email account that is overloaded, disorganized, and has lots of emails …
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read moreKarin, with the help of others, has more quilts to share. These are going to the people of Appalachia. Karin writes:I have 2 more quilts to fill the box and share with you. Both tops are from Nelle, of Stillwater, OK, and I can almost see the bottom of her FIRST box. Yep, there has …
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read moreI told you Ray was busy…here’s another installment of finished quilts and some mailbox goodies from Ray. He writes:This quilt is from Marge F. in NJ. While it is a small quilt, it sure packs a punch with all the rich, bold colors in the log cabin quilt. I used the stipple motif and black …
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read moreRay had a little bit of down time. Between his longarm being in the shop and then customer quilts that were behind, he wasn’t able to do as many community quilts as he typically does. That’s all okay. We all have life, life circumstances, and as always, this is a volunteer thing. But…he’s back and …
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read moreRay recently sent me some pictures from the recent Airing of the Quilts. For those of you who aren’t familiar, Ray is a volunteer quilt finisher. Blog readers send quilt tops (or occasionally UFOs) and Ray finishes them. The quilts are then donated to charities or sold and the profits from the sales go towards …
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read moreWe have so many Karens working in the community quilt project. This is fun…Karen B works to put together quilts for Martha’s Closet. Karen H was so kind and sent finished quilts to Karen B for donations. Karen B writes:Hi Everyone! I received a wonderful box of goodies from Karen H in Nebraska. All the …
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read moreOn Sunday I gave you a little parade of quilts from Karin. Today I’m featuring another round. Karin is so prolific!! She writes:Staying with Clare and Anonymous, we have number 4 in our parade…at first, I thought, how in the world did Clare, in Arkansas, get a hold of undersea fabric?? Closer inspection made me …
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read moreRay is here today to share three great quilts with you. Ray writes: Nancy F in FL sent me this beautiful scrap buster quilt. It is made from two complimentary blocks that work so well with each other. And the variety of fabric in the top is amazing. I used a stipple motif with white …
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read moreKarin sent me an email with SEVEN newly finished community quilts. I thought I would share a few in this post and the rest in a post for later this week. Karin writes:Hi Jo! Hope all is well up there in snowland!!! We had a cold snap a couple of weeks ago, and it was …
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read moreI think this might be the last post from my email inbox leftovers. WHEW!! It’s been a lot of hard work. Thanks for being patient with me. These are all from Karin. She writes: Hi Jo, I have 2 sister quilts that came in my mailbox yesterday. The first is the smaller one, and appears …
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read moreI’m getting towards the bottom of this email inbox and have a few quilts from several different finishers to show you. First up is Sue. She writes:I am enclosing photos of 2 baby quilts I am sending to Tanzania, PeaceLutheran Church, OHIO. I thought it would be better to send themdirectly to the church instead …
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read moreCan you guess I’ve been very behind on reporting quilt finishes to you? I am so sorry – a lot of life here these days. My longarm work has exploded, my mom has been ill, and my daughter is studying abroad (London). While that piece sounds like it would allow more time? Not so much …
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