February 2011

HST Mountain

February 22, 2011

The quilt I just finished has over 400 half square triangles. Considering that one week ago today I started this top — designed it, pieced the top, quilted it, bound it and it’s now done and will be shipped either this afternoon or tomorrow, AND that I made over 400 half square triangles . . [...]

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Re-Arranging Deck Chairs

February 21, 2011

The past few days, if I wasn’t sewing, I was cleaning out the filing cabinet. I save everything! Why do I do that? I hate clutter and yet it surrounds me. It’s so hard for me to throw anything out. In 1969 when I turned 15 and could get my driver’s license, my parents bought [...]

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Design Wall Monday – February 21, 2011

February 21, 2011

Pinwheels . . lots of them. If I had a dime dollar for every pinwheel I’ve made, I’d be a rich woman! I use them so often in borders and yes, these are border pieces. What’s on your design wall? We’re using a different Mr. Linky option today so I hope it’s working better than [...]

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Caught Red Handed

February 20, 2011

Seeing the video on tv this week of the cat that would steal things reminded me of Speck’s thieving habit. Excuse the horrible picture that was printed on a horrible ink yet printer many years ago. When Speck was little, he would steal money out of my purse. When no one was around, he would [...]

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Weird Comments

February 20, 2011

When I click on the stashbusting post and try to respond to comments, the comments are showing up way over on the sidebar but only on that post. Does it do that to you too? Older posts aren’t doing that so maybe it’s Mr. Linky. To answer some of the comments left: This year compared [...]

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Stash Report – Week 8, 2011

February 20, 2011

Nothing added again this week. Hang on . . I have to pat myself on the back! Weird but I used the same number of yards I used last week. All 11 yards were on the Quiltmaker 100 Blocks quilt. I think I used more because I didn’t plan it out ahead and cut [...]

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