December 2011

Design Wall Monday – December 26, 2011

December 26, 2011

Our last Design Wall Monday of 2011.  A new and exciting year is ahead for all of us.  Let’s commit to starting and finishing lots of new projects in 2012, whether they be sewing, quilting or knitting projects! My design floor has a zillion flying geese.  These will go together, 8 per block, and I [...]

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Merry Christmas

December 25, 2011

To my blog readers who celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas!  May your day be filled with love, peace and joy.  May we never forget the reason we celebrate Christmas — the birth of Christ! To my blog readers who do not celebrate Christmas, I hope you have a good day and I hope you cooked because [...]

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Stash Report – Week 52, 2011

December 25, 2011

It just doesn’t seem right to be having a stash report on Christmas Day but . . it’s our last stash report for 2011.  Can you believe it? I cannot! Mom and I went to a quilt shop last week and I headed straight to the 50% table where I bought these two fabrics, both [...]

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Button for 2012 UFO Challenge

December 24, 2011

Button making isn’t my strong point (obviously) but I’ve made a button for the 2012 UFO Challenge. It’s over on the left sidebar.  Copy it and use if you’d like.  Each month the new UFO number will be posted here on the blog and I’ll fill in the link on the page that is linked [...]

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A Meat Grinder

December 24, 2011

Recently a friend and I were emailing back and forth about canning and chili and ground meat.  He’s a friend from years and years and years back and he cans a lot of food . . way more than I ever thought about canning.  He was telling me that he grinds his own hamburger meat.  [...]

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Christmas Day, 2009

December 24, 2011

For the past two years, I look forward to Christmas just so I can go back and re-read this post and laugh.  This may be one of the funniest posts I’ve ever written . . or maybe you had to be there.  It was so funny.  For two years now, we’ve laughed about this day.  [...]

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