I recently finished up our stitch-along. It was Kind Words Never Die from Heartstring Samplery. It was a fun stitch and I’m so happy I stitched it. I fully finished mine this weekend and will be showing that off to you soon. With the finish of one, it’s time to announce the next stitch along. …
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read moreAnother week…more pups. Some going out and some coming in. Here’s the latest. First off you might remember the puppies that were lab and pitbull cross…the one ones where the owner called me in the middle of the night?? Well, the vet office that I work at has been adopting them out being we had …
read moreThis week was fun in my stitching. I went down and met my daughter Kayla one day and we had a stitchy hour or two together. Other than that, I didn’t have a lot of stitching time. I did make a little progress though. My goal for the week was to finish the stitching on …
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read moreRay sent me a few quilts to share with you. I always love seeing what he’s up to. This first quilt I’m showing…oh, I’d love to make one!! If you’ve been around here, you know red is my favorite color… Ray writes: The holidays gave me a break from commission quilts so I could longarm …
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read moreI’ve had this little cross-stitch piece in my to-be-finished pile for a week or so and being I’m getting the Valentine decor out, I thought I better finish it up. I had originally thought I would put it in this little frame…It was a little stark. I ended up going down to the basement to …
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read moreI’ve been in a big debate in my head on how I’ve been living my life and have decided I need to make some changes. The beauty of it all is that it’s not too late to make some changes…and I think the changes will improve my quality of life. I love everything I’m doing …
read moreIt has been 6 months since I started my Artist in Residence with the Durham Art Guild. With it coming to an end, I have a solo show with all new work March 15th – April 11th. My work for this residence explored more of my process but also looking at making pieces that may be more than just 2 dimensions.
For those that are local, I hope you can come to the Opening Reception March 15th and celebrate this journey with me. In the meantime, I’m sharing with you all the details around my show.
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read moreI didn’t get much sewing time at all. I tried to get to the sewing room all week long with no luck until noon on Sunday… Then the first thing I did was drop the box that had my little pieces in for my Tiny Nine Patch blocks. I dropped these and the container also …
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read moreI’ve started working on having Thankful Thursday posts…it’s just a random post of things that happened during my week that I am thankful for. It started after I’ve been reading The Frugal Girl blog and she has a feature called Thankful Thursday. This week I am thankful for how far I’ve come on my cancer …
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read moreI cut a lot of simple kits for baby quilts several years ago.
It is time to get more of them sewn up and ready for donation. .
This one used 121 4-inch squares. The car print suggested the colors of the rest of the squares.
It finishes at 38″. Not fancy, but it gets the job done: happy quilt = happy baby.
read moreThis week’s challenge was to sky colors but not less than 10% sky blue. I had a million ideas but was very short on time. (I’ve got a t-shirt quilt that’s way overdue.) I had an idea I would have loved to do based on the title “Purp”le Rain” but it would have required a ton of time.
Instead, I used inspireation from our recent ice storm. While we were frozen in place, we were treated to some lovely sunsets over the ice so I tried to capture that in raw edge applique.
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read moreLast Fall I showed pictures of desserts I made and donated to the local Historical Society dinner/fundraiser. A reader asked what the Brownie Delight was. That’s the white dessert in the pan. This has long been a family favorite. In fact, it was one of my husband’s favorite desserts. It looks like this… Taste of …
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read moreIt’s always a little awkward for me after I finish a big cross stitch project. I kind of flounder and don’t make much progress on anything until I get settled into a plan or project for my focus piece…and that’s what this week was. Last week I finished Christmas Garden…I told you about that in …
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read moreI’ve started working on having Thankful Thursday posts…it’s just a random post of things that happened during my week that I am thankful for. It started after I’ve been reading The Frugal Girl blog and she has a feature called Thankful Thursday. This week I am thankful for a choice I made 37 years ago. Today …
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My daughter’s great grandmother was the one who brought the tradition of saying “Rabbit, rabbit” first thing on the first day of a new month. This was supposed to bring luck for the month ahead. I’d never heard of it before and thought it was just a game she played with her grandchildren. Then I ran accross it in a Miss Read novel (which I highly recommend, by the way – quite a charming series about a school teacher in a small English village.) Somehow the tradition got translated from “White Rabbit” to “Rabbit Rabbit” along the way and ...
read moreNo change in the numbers.
The nameless tree quilt has a name now. I decided to name it Trinidad for the place where Laura took the picture. Every time I look at it I hear the old Eddy Money song play in my head, but I can live with that.
I finished adding motifs to the top and started sewing down the bits.
I hope to start quilting it in the next few weeks.
Fabric In: 0 yards
Fabric out: 1 yard
Net Fabric Used: 1 yard
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