But that’s alright with me. I can live with that. This happens for me a lot, happy accidents I like to call them or happier surprises. I’m a design as you go kind of quilter. When I try and plan quilts they never go quite how I imagine them. Like this quilt - I spent [...]
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Have a truly Blessed Day!
I’ll be back later this week.
Teri
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go awry occasionally. I worked and worked and worked and worked to get the pattern pieces drafted just so. I stitched and stitched and stitched and pulled out some stitching and realized I’d goofed. I’ve figured out how to fix the goof but I goofed. When I drafted on of the pieces it’s just slightly [...]
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So the other day I worked on the Challenge quilt that I can’t show for another three or four weeks, until the big reveal at MQX. The quilt as designed has some interesting seams and unusually shaped pieces (hence the interesting seams) to say the very least. This results in needing to actually [...]
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I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do for the day, I’m working on two quilts that have serious deadlines. There’s the Pat Sloan yahoo group that are working together with an on line retreat.
Then there’s the thought of doing something other than all of that for some fun and inspiration.
And here’s [...]
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This is supposed to be my friend and help me as I care for my home.
This is supposed to just work. Clean up all that stuff that ends up on the floor like dust and cat hair and thread and my long hair. but not today - are you ready to hear what [...]
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A friend of mine gets together with other quilters a few times a year and at least at one meal they order dessert first. This beautiful little thing is sitting on the counter at Rita’s Italian Ice in Guiford, CT. I had a nice chat with the lady who owns the shop [...]
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On another blog I have I posted a picture of my sewing box. See here:
Yes, I know it’s a bit of a mess, but I’m working! See there’s thread and needles and straight pins and safety pins. The Jinny Beyer Perfect Piecer (I use this for machine piecing too!)
There are needles I don’t use and [...]
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Oh now before anyone gets all concerned and fussy over me. No I did not cut myself with any of the sharp knives we keep in the block or the cheap serrated knives we keep in the really good cheese grater.
No, I had the kind of mishap that only happens when I’m in the [...]
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I can’t believe the time has passed so quickly! She’s leaving tomorrow and going priority mail. Flat Alice has to be in school on Monday. I’m a bit tardy sending her home since I’ve just been enjoying her company so very much. Oh well. She’s definitely leaving with more than [...]
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