Thursday

I am only allowed to travel to quilt shows if I return home with sports paraphernalia from teams that are in the general area of the place that I am visiting.  When I went to Road to CA I was in Ontario — which is east of Los Angeles.  Of course, the boys had no [...]

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Another page featuring Colin

Isn’t he just adorable?
This was done in response to a challenge we were given in last week’s class lessons.
We had a list of things that we could choose from, and only had to try to use 2, I ended up using 4 of the things on the list in my layout:
2 patterned papers from the [...]

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Now We’re Rockin’ Week 2 layout

This is week 2 of the digital scrapbooking class I’m taking over at JessicaSprague.com (and the class just keeps getting better! You should hear me giggling with glee as I learn a new trick.)
Most of what I learned this week isn’t readily apparent, it’s all behind the scenes stuff regarding shortcuts and ways to [...]

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Carpenter’s Star Quilt

I am slowly working my way back into working on quilts for a few customers. I just finished this one the other day.

Those of you that are members at MQResource have already seen this quilt, but I’m so pleased with how it turned out, I just had to do some more sharing.

Plus, as a [...]

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Machine Quilting Classes

I try to keep my blog mostly free of my quilting business related activities, because I don’t want this to wind up being full of advertisements, but:  it’s my blog and I can plug myself if I want to, right?
(Did anybody else start singing along with me?  It’s my party…sorry…)
MQX
Machine Quilters Exposition is rapidly approaching [...]

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Links, search words, and other interesting things

So I was just looking at my blog stats and was surprised to see that some of my viewers today were coming to me via Mark Lipinski’s blog. I buzzed over there to see how that could possibly be and found that I was included in a list of blogs that were either friend [...]

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Waiting for a blizzard

Yesterday we had temps over 40 — last night at 8:30 PM the water was still running down our driveway so fast it looked like someone had turned the hose on.  Today.
So different.
It’s currently 5F, with lots of gusty wind, so the wind chill is probably somewhere around -20.  The kids got dismissed early because [...]

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Reusable shopping bags

A few weeks ago I was more than a little dismayed to come home from a grocery shopping trip with 20 plastic sacks.  I mentioned this, and then the next day showed off a sack that I had made myself.
I’m ashamed to admit that the next time I went shopping I compeltely forgot to take [...]

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Baking or cooking?

I was snoozing this morning and had this tiny epiphany. I was pretty proud of myself for how clever I was, then I remembered that it was really just prompted by something I had read in a recent issue of Mark Lipinski’s Quilter’s Home Magazine. (I know, some of you probably hate his [...]

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Baby stuff

This is not the quilt I intended to make when I stepped into my studio the other day to work on something for Hannah.
The irony is not lost on me:  it’s for my sister’s daughter, and it is primarily BLUE.
What happened was this:  I found a chunk of the fabric I used for the border [...]

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