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Getting up the nerve
The deadline is coming up to get the doll quilt I made for DQS10 out the door and on its way. I realized that I couldn’t put off quilting it any longer. I have known how I want to quilt it but I’ve...
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Diagonal Lace Socks
I finished my socks a few days ago and I’m just getting the chance now to post about them. I love them! They are soft and the colors are beautiful. I knit the leg nice and long like I like my hand...
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Sent and Received! Hooray!
I finished my doll quilt for the DQS10 swap! I used my Faux Piped Binding Tutorial for the binding on this little quilt. It seemed to be the perfect quilt for it. I had fun stalking my partner and...
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Wow!
I feel like I won the lottery!! I got a package in the mail and I knew it was the doll quilt that my partner made for me. It felt like Christmas morning. I carefully opened it and I saw bright,...
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Washington D.C.
We took a trip to our nation’s capitol for Spring Break this year. My husband and I spent three days there the first year we were married. We were so excited to take our kids and spend more time...
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Island Baby Quilt
I finished a baby quilt for my very good friend, Nia. She is having a baby boy and they are going to name him Toa. She is Samoan and I just love the meaning behind the name they have chosen for their...
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Dropped the ball
I have seriously felt lately like I have dropped the ball in regards to my blog and my two loves, quilting and knitting. We put our house on the market and to make the house more appealing we had to...
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Quilt Show!
Thanks for all your nice comments and ideas to make my quilting life a little easier while we are trying to sell our house. I have put all my must have notions in a box. And made project boxes so all...
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Quilt Show! (part deux)
We had a wonderful Featured Artist from our guild for the show. This is Barb Frazier and she is a talented quilter and a funny lady. Her wonderful booth was so cozy with so much eye candy. She had...
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Design Wall
I absolutely love my design wall and can’t believe I did without one for so long. As you know I don’t have a sewing room and I sew at the dining room table AND my house is on the market so I need to...
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Solid Doors
I wanted to show you a little more of my quilt from the quilt show. I am totally crazy for this quilt and love that every inch of it is Kona solids, my favorite. The pattern for this quilt is from...
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I finished this quilt top recently for my friend Gail, The Quilted Gypsy. I sew for her and really enjoy it. She has such an eye for putting fabric together. Lots of times they are bold and fun like...
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Summer Stitching
Well that ended up being an very long unintended blog break. I have had lots of excuses reasons but we don’t need to go into all of them. I have been busy with lots of things and sewing and knitting...
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Teacups and Pumpkins
What in the world do those two have to do with each other? They are two projects that I recently finished for Barb from The Quilted B. First is this pretty quilt. The fabric in this quilt is...
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DQS11
I just can’t seem to resist signing up for the Doll Quilt Swap on Flickr. It is such a great swap and so much fun. It is a secret swap where stalking your partner is encouraged. Who knew stalking...
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Christmas?
It really is never too early to work on Christmas projects. Especially since I usually start them after Thanksgiving and then there isn’t enough time to finish everything on my list. The nice thing...
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Countdown to Christmas
Have you started feeling that way yet? That Christmas is right around the corner and the countdown has begun? Have you started working on Christmas projects yet? I made this cute Christmas quilt out...
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Down but not out
I have a sewing room now! The down side is I can’t do any sewing in it yet. Let me back up a month and tell you what is going on. We sold our house and partway through packing I hurt my already bad...
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Feels Good To Be Back
Wow! I can’t believe I took that long of a break from blogging. With my back injury and waiting for our house to be built I just couldn’t seem to get to it. It felt like life was on hold. I barely...
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Faux Piped Binding Tutorial
I am excited to share with you that my Faux Piped Binding Tutorial was picked up by American Quilter magazine in their September 2012 issue! So if you want to add a cool and easy binding to your quilt...
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Winners!
Thanks to all who entered the drawing for a copy of the magazine that has my Faux Piped Binding Tutorial in it. I decided to pick two winners and they are Judy Warner and Karin!! Congratulations!...
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Mom and Me
We have been in our new house for about three and a half months and I love it. It is so nice to have more room and to have my own space to sew. My mom joined me and we have had a lot of fun sewing...
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Back in the Groove
It’s been a month since the kids went back to school and I am getting back into the groove of having more time to sew. It’s funny how a little time sewing tends to make it look like a tornado went...
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Ballerina Quilt
I finished the quilt for my hairdresser who had a baby girl. I showed the fabric that I used a couple of posts ago. My mom gets her hair cut by her too and wanted to make a quilt for her but wasn’t...
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Faux Piped Binding at the quilt show
I was invited to teach the Faux Piped Binding technique at my guild’s (Evergreen Piecemakers) quilt show today. It was a blast meeting people and sharing the awesomeness that a Faux Piped Binding adds...
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