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Entries from August 2006

Queen of Procrastination

August 31st, 2006 · 11 Comments

No doubt I’m not quite normal! I love to quilt! I love to piece, I love to quilt, I love to make feathers . . so why do I put off the things that need to be done? I had this one quilt to be quilted. It’s called “Heat Wave” and [...]

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Just a Little Horn Tooting!

August 30th, 2006 · 19 Comments

According to the AQS website, the Projects, 2006 issue is out and . . you may recognize a familiar name on one of the projects! Yes, one of my projects is in there. I haven’t seen the magazine yet.. I don’t know if it’s in the book stores or if they’re starting to [...]

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On the Road Again

August 30th, 2006 · 15 Comments

These two quilts are headed off to EQ to maybe be used in an upcoming episode on QNN. These quilts will be given to my great nieces, Taylor (with the pink borders) and Katlin (with the purple borders). There’s a third quilt for Payton but it isn’t quilted yet.
Both quilts were pieced totally from the [...]

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X’s & O’s

August 29th, 2006 · 26 Comments

Thanks Tonya for such a fun project. I had so much fun doing this.
Everything for this quilt came from the stash. I was getting low on reds so I pieced the red borders. Didn’t realize the one on the right had such a light/bright in with the darks. Kinda makes it look pink but it [...]

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Quilt for an Hour

August 28th, 2006 · 18 Comments

If you want to see some of the completed tops made from the first quilt in an hour project, you can find them on my webshots page. If you have completed your top and want it included on the webshots page, send me a picture. When you go to my webshots page, you can either [...]

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Success and Failure

August 26th, 2006 · 24 Comments

Try as I might, I can’t convince myself that August is history. I agreed to buy no fabric in August. Today is August 27. August is almost over, right? But, almost doesn’t count and . . I bought fabric! Let me defend myself before you pass judgment on me.
First, [...]

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My Town

August 26th, 2006 · 8 Comments

Owensboro is such a funny little town. Today I took a different path to Hobby Lobby. NO! I didn’t buy fabric. Chad needed something from there. I usually travel on the bypass but today we went the back way. From the bypass, I had noticed that Crazy Larry had painted his building purple but from [...]

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Alternate Block Choices

August 26th, 2006 · 13 Comments

Last week when I was in a state of “can’t believe this is happening to me” about my blog not working, I decided that instead of doing what I should have been doing . . .

Quilting the last two quilts for the book
Binding the 12 remaining quilts for the book
Making three quilts for teachers from [...]

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Quilt for an Hour Project

August 25th, 2006 · 8 Comments

Is there anyone out there still working on this project? I’m so sorry that we were interrupted by blogger. I’m going to go ahead and post all the instructions, separate posts for each hour, because some are not working on it right now but are saving it for later use.
I will do another [...]

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Things I Missed Telling You

August 24th, 2006 · 9 Comments

As much as I talk, can you imagine how long this post will be . . I have a whole week to cover. Oh, it won’t be that long because I can’t remember things that happened past yesterday!

Several weeks ago I received an e-mail from a lady named Ginny. She had [...]

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