Welcome to June! The first five months of 2008 are history. Where do you stand in your stash reduction efforts? We started the year with between 30 and 40 people reporting weekly and we’ve dwindled down to 15 - 20 on most weeks. We still have seven months left in [...]

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One of the hardest lessons for me to learn with the longarm is that when I start something that is so fun and exciting, it may not be so fun and exciting by the time I get to the end of the quilt, especially when the quilt is about 90″ x 105″. I was [...]

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Be sure to check out the list of quilters over on the right side bar who participated in the Quilt for an Hour project.  There are some very cool quilts appearing on blogs!
Another Quiltathon is planned for June 4 and 5.  That’s this coming Wednesday and Thursday.  If you’re wanting to participate, work your hiney [...]

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Calendar

Where has this week gone?  How did it get to be Friday already?  Maybe I’m just losing what small portion of my mind was left.  This morning while in the shower, I thought . . Oh, my goodness!  Today is Wednesday.  Chad has a haircut appointment today.  He went yesterday.  Lori must’ve thought he was [...]

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Just the Boys

They’re tired, they’re dirty (very dirty) and they’ve been wet!  There ended up being 8 boys and 2 girls (that’s the story I got).  When they got the weather forecast for last night, one group of them left and the girls were in that group.  One of the boys said “they caught the [...]

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I know there are some Louisiana girls who read my blog.  My sister lives in New Iberia and mentioned that she might want to take quilting lessons.  This girl can’t even sew on a button — her husband does all that for her!  If she’s thinking of learning to quilt, we need to get her [...]

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American Quilter

This is always one of my favorite issues of American Quilter because it has all the winning quilts from the Paducah quilt show.  But, I have a pattern in this issue.  If you don’t receive this magazine, you might check it out at the book stores.  The pictures of the winning quilts are so [...]

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Nothing added this week and I used 17 yards.
How’d you do? Do you realize that this is the last report for May, then one more month and 2008 will be halfway over? Oh, wait . . maybe we shouldn’t think about that. If you had a goal for stashbusting in 2008, [...]

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Some of the Campers

Chad has been so hyped about this camping trip. It’s actually a three night trip instead of a two night trip. I guess I never thought to ask but just assumed a camping trip would involve all boys. Wrong! They’re picking up another boy on the way [...]

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Popovers

The other night when I made bread, Vince and I were talking about how so many things have evolved. Take bread for example. Our grandparents probably made all their own bread. Some may have ground their own wheat. But then, they were able to buy store bought bread and didn’t have [...]

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