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It is true, time flies. I cannot believe it is time for a SAL update again!! The good thing is that school closed Friday for a two-week holiday and I am so happy about it. To me it means sleeping in and doing whatever I feel like for the next two weeks. Mollie must go to the vet to be spayed and microchipped Monday morning and Thursday I have a workshop with Mark Gee, for astrophotography. His photos are simply beautiful and I cannot wait for this hands-on workshop, after trying to get a place in one of his workshops ...

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Hi Everyone! A big welcome to all the new readers!

This week’s topic: Abstraction or Realism?  I just read a great blog post by Elizabeth Barton, one of my teachers. She wrote about working abstractly in the art quilt form.  Have you ever wanted to make an abstract art quilt?  I know I have, but at first found it daunting, humbling and downright hard!!!

You see, I had always started with some kind of a picture as a jumping off point.  Several years back I took Elizabeth Barton’s ...

Any time THIS is involved in a make-over project, it is NOT a good sign.

Friday I had the day off.  I had a doctor’s appointment in Lacrosse.  It was what I had hoped was my last trip there regarding my thyroid surgery last February.  The appointment was in the afternoon so in the morning I had some time for playing Grammy.

Carver decided to keep his mommy up all night and mommy need a nap…Grammy to the rescue.  It so nice that we’re close and this can easily happen.  Kalissa ended up at the doctor in the afternoon and went home with antibiotics.  Hopefully that will get her feeling a little ...

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Today I finally had time to address a request from a friend.  Earlier in the week, I got a message from my college friend, Joan, otherwise seen in the Comments section here as SoSis.  It’s nickname she made up. SoSis is Southern Sister and SewSis, the nickname she gave me, is Sewing Sister.  I had used TraSis for a while, meaning Traveling Sister but she figured out we could both be So/Sew Sisters.  Clever, right?

Anyway, SoSis fell and broke her hip and needed an immediate total hip replacement.  That was a number of weeks ago and she ...

Today I finally had time to address a request from a friend.  Earlier in the week, I got a message from my college friend, Joan, otherwise seen in the Comments section here as SoSis.  It’s nickname she made up. SoSis is Southern Sister and SewSis, the nickname she gave me, is Sewing Sister.  I had used TraSis for a while, meaning Traveling Sister but she figured out we could both be So/Sew Sisters.  Clever, right?

Anyway, SoSis fell and broke her hip and needed an immediate total hip replacement.  That was a number of weeks ago and she ...

Contemplating an extended hiatus or a permanent one.  Uncertain right now. Thank you for your patience.

Every month I team up with U.S. Cellular and share a little about my Samsung Galaxy S7 Smart Phone.  This is one of those posts.  If you have a kid or grand kid with a smart phone you might want to check out this parent child agreement on cell phone use.  I think it would be very useful when opening a discussion on phone safety with your children. You can find that here.

It’s elections season…love it or hate it.  Democrat, Republican, Independent.  We all have out choices.  This year more than ever I think people are ...

The Sandhills Quilters Guild quilt show opens today at 10am.  Over 150 beautiful quilts and a bunch of vendors. It’s open until 6pm today and from 10-5 tomorrow. Our raffle quilt “Memories of “Provence” won Best In Show! 

The show is at the

Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Hill Rd S, Pinehurst, NC

Come join us.

Linda

1.  Darling Fox Pattern free from Shwin and Shwin HERE

2.  Are you among the many who are in love with solids?   HERE is a free quilt pattern from Jeli Quilts blog for her beautiful “Postcard from Sweden” quilt.  It is a Craftsy download.

3.  HERE is the link to a BOW (Block of the Week) if you are interested in making a cute quilt.  Lots of houses and yes, paper piecing!  It’s a Moda “Be My Neighbor” quilt.  This is the layout of the quilt.    It is being put on my Bear Creek Quilting Company.

4.  These wired head ...

1.  Darling Fox Pattern free from Shwin and Shwin HERE

2.  Are you among the many who are in love with solids?   HERE is a free quilt pattern from Jeli Quilts blog for her beautiful “Postcard from Sweden” quilt.  It is a Craftsy download.

3.  HERE is the link to a BOW (Block of the Week) if you are interested in making a cute quilt.  Lots of houses and yes, paper piecing!  It’s a Moda “Be My Neighbor” quilt.  This is the layout of the quilt.    It is being put on my Bear Creek Quilting Company.

4.  These wired head ...

Well, it’s been a few days since the auction for the children’s home and I’m done pouting that my quilts didn’t bring in the BIG BUCKS I was hoping they would. For the seven quilts I took, $830 was the grand total. Not shabby at all, but not what I was hoping either. It does thrill me that the Minion quilt went to a young lady who LOVES it, so that is a happy. And the HST quilt was “won” by a nice young man who got it for his wife who couldn’t be there ...

It’s my turn!  When the road home was announced, I felt like I was really going out on a limb.  After all, I’m not an experienced designer and I was swimming with some very experienced and talented fish!

When I think of my home here in Oregon, there’s one landscape feature that literally dwarfs the rest of the trees and landscape…Mt. Hood.  Towering over 11,000 feet tall, Mt. Hood is a focal point in our skyline.

I wanted to capture the way Mt. Hood dominates the skyline with an almost perfectly triangular shape.    Windsurfing was ...

A post from Kelli–

This past weekend, I had every intention to go up to Decorah, about 20 miles away, and check out their antique show that they host annually at the fairgrounds.  I’ve gone up there previously and was pretty impressed with the stuff that I’ve found.  This year however, I had a wonderful distraction–CARVER!  He’s a wonderful little guy, so I didn’t mind missing out on the goods at the antique show.  I ended up going a bit later in the afternoon on Saturday, so I think I missed the super good stuff ...

I’ve been working on UFO quilts for most of the summer.  I wanted to check my progress and see how I was doing.  I’ve not concentrated on any one project so it’s really hard to see how far along I’ve actually come.  I started to try to figure it out all in my head but then thought it might be easier to write a blog post instead.  I copied my original post with pictures and then added an update.

Up first…Blue Skies.  This is from the String Fling book….  I have a bag of strings ...

We welcomed all our new and returning members to the first meeting of the new season!

Our guest speaker this month was
Beth Cameron
She shared her quilts with us, featuring a wide variety of techniques. Here’s Beth with her friend, KarenOur registrars were hard at work, with all our new and returning membersPostcards for SeptemberA few of the many quilts donated to our Community Quilts program this month. Brynhild’s Modern Block of the Month for 2015-2016  Kim and Susan completed their Block of the Month quilts for 2015-2016 Debbie and Carol spent time sharing ...

Here we go again.  Our weather has been the wettest I ever in my life remember.

See the yellow?  That’s a flood watch for us.  It starts tonight and goes into Thursday night.

National Weather Service says, “MOST LOCATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PICK UP BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING…BUT WITH LOCALIZED AMOUNTS IN EXCESS  OF 7 INCHES POSSIBLE WHERE STORMS TRACK ACROSS THE SAME AREAS.”

What?  Yes, read that again.  I’ve read it several times.  I’d like to say that I can’t believe it because I can.  Let me remind ...