December 2009

Quilting is Done!

December 31, 2009

There’s a lot of quilting in this top but it was fun.  Finished it this afternoon. A couple of closer shots of some of the quilting. I’ll post pictures of the whole thing once the binding is done.

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Ready or Not – It’s Almost 2010

December 31, 2009

On Lime Green Kitchen: Lamb Stew and it got rave reviews at our house! Does time pass so quickly for you?  Does it seem like just yesterday we were hearing about all the things that could go haywire when the year 2000 arrived?  Can you believe that was 10 years ago?  A whole decade has [...]

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A Feather Video

December 30, 2009

It’s not a great video . . unless you would enjoy seeing my arm up close but it’s the best I can do by myself trying to quilt and video.  Some day I’ll get Vince to help me and get a better video.  Maybe it can give you some ideas for helping with your feathers. [...]

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Guess What’s Found

December 30, 2009

Today on Lime Green Kitchen: Jailhouse Rolls – they’re yummy and you can make the dough ahead and save it in the fridge for up to 14 days. Unless this is your very first day to read my blog (if it is, please come back again soon!), then you know two electronic items I dearly [...]

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Ten Little Entertainers

December 30, 2009

It doesn’t take much to entertain us but those 10 chickens are so funny. We still have almost all the snow on the ground . . that would be about 8 – 10″.  This was yesterday evening.  Last night we got more.  I’ll never complain about summer again . . maybe. We never forget that [...]

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Feathers are Sew FUN

December 29, 2009

Loose Change is on the longarm now.  When I first made it, the quilting plan was to quilt lots of feathers in the black spaces.  Then I thought about putting free motion flowers and leaves.  So I played around with drawing in the feathers and flowers. Feathers won out: Can you see the floral backing [...]

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