As a longarm quilter, the thing I hate most are wavy borders. I never understand why people don’t take a bit of extra time, measure the borders, pin them and make them fit correctly instead of just slapping the strips down, sewing and hoping for the best.
Well . . guess what I did? [...]

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Chad has been talking about building a canoe. He comes up with some funny ideas. He and his friend, Jason, took the plunge and started the canoe over the weekend. Here’s their progress so far. It surprised the heck out of me how good it looks. It’s 9′4″ long and [...]

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I arrived back home Wednesday night. The drive back wasn’t bad at all — just long! I was worried about a section of 271 south of Paris, TX where there are flood gauges along the highway, which makes me think that area floods but it was not flooded and I was able to [...]

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Remember my purple house from a post I did a year or so ago?
I know once you sell a house, you can’t control what happens but look what they’ve done to my purple house. They’re painting it blue . . kinda bluish gray! Not everyone would like a purple house I suppose, [...]

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My mom and dad have a farm/camp that is about 2 hours north of here. It was actually my grandparents’ old home place, though the house is gone and mom and dad put a mobile home up there 8 years ago. When I was a kid, I loved more than anything else to [...]

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I took this picture hoping to get a good picture of my quilting but then when I saw how pretty the back yard is, I didn’t want to crop it all out so it’s a not so good picture of my quilt but the background reminds me of how tropical it is here. The [...]

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Mom was showing me all of the tops she has started and I thought this one reminded me of some that Mary has shown lately. Mom still has to finish doing the applique flowers/vine down the white strips but she’ll be done with it soon I’m sure.
This evening was another favorite meal. Popeyes [...]

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Today I got all the blocks sewn together in rows, and all the rows sewn together with the sashing, and everything sewn together except the outer borders. I brought the floral fabric to use for the outer border but decided it needs a narrow red border before I add the floral border. I [...]

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Mom and I were going to spend the day sewing but dad has other ideas. He’s gotten hooked on the computer .. ebay to be more specific. Yesterday we decided to hook up the wireless network. My nephew had everything wireless but after he was gone, mom and dad took it all off [...]

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I made it to Louisiana. Left MO about 6:45 Monday morning, stopped 3 times for gas and bathroom breaks, drove through McDonald’s somewhere in TX and made it to mom and dad’s at 6:45 Monday evening. Twelve hours on the road is a long time!
My first night in Louisiana and look what we [...]

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