I’m a longarm quilter. Anyone not know that? I received an e-mail this morning from Valerie, a fellow longarmer with whom I was chatting last night at The Quilt Show. Her e-mail brought back memories of when I was a new longarmer. I had written a blog post about [...]

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I left Tuesday morning before breakfast, came home tonight . . to this!
In the second picture, just look . . the empty milk jug is left on the counter (instead of rinsing and placing in the recycle container just outside the kitchen door in the garage .. they have to walk right by it to [...]

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Julie over at Feeling Simply Quilted posted recently about pre-washing fabrics. Here’s my story.
I made this quilt maybe in 2005. The whole quilt was a fiasco but I’ll tell you the running red story first. I wash every single piece of fabric before it goes into my stash.
This quilt was [...]

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We have a joke in our family about my dad and a green cat. This is Joni Pike’s pattern, Catnip. Her patterns are so neat and can be ordered through Starwood Pattern Company. (Scroll down to “Sew Special Designs to see all of Joni’s designs.)
I gave this quilt to dad when we [...]

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77 in my house at 8:00 a.m. Not too bad for most people but 77 is in the meltdown range for me. Anything over 70 and I’m miserable.
Does this happen to you too? As soon as I finished my post about how wonderful life is, I realize it’s a bit warm in [...]

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We’ve had a great day and I just had to share. I’m generally the half full type anyway but some days I feel like I need to pinch me to see if things are real! I suppose this whole post could be just a great big list of Gratitudes.

Chad started a new job [...]

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While we were in Louisiana last week, I crossed the I-210 bridge several times without feeling too nervous so I was so hoping that I was on the road to recovery and the fear of crossing bridges was history. Not so!
To get to Paducah without adding hours to the trip, I had to cross [...]

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No, the sign’s not just for me. That’s what they put up for the quilt show next month. Tomorrow I’ll pick up my friend, Elaine, and her friend, Kim, and we’ll drive to Paducah. On Wednesday I’ll drop off the remaining quilts for the book so they can be photographed and [...]

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I did get to sew a little today. I made two pillowcases and four more string blocks. Mary correctly informed me that I missed the point of making the string blocks and I turned them into something difficult which is about what I always do.
I’m also posting a picture of another pair [...]

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Mom and I went to Quilts Bayou while I was home. I didn’t do too bad, did I? The notecards are gifts for friends, the top and bottom fabrics will be used for pillowcases, mostly gifts. I couldn’t pass up the fabric with the Louisiana food on it. Not [...]

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