March 2007

Another New Direction

March 31, 2007

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 it over a year ago so [...]

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When the Wife Leaves Home

March 28, 2007

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 [...]

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Pre-wash or Not

March 26, 2007

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 being entered in [...]

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Green Cat Quilt

March 26, 2007

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 were there [...]

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It Always Happens!

March 26, 2007

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 here so [...]

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Life is So Good!

March 24, 2007

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 Monday [...]

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