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Wow, I’ve been busy the last week or so! I’ve been sewing away on the Christmas Cactus quilt, having set a goal of 4 blocks a night. It sounds like more than it really is. I have all of my squares and half square triangles cut and stacked, and I divided the pattern into 100 [...]
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Thanks to all who entered my fabric giveaway celebrating 500 comments. The winner of 6 half yards of fabric is…
Laurel
Laurel said:
Wow! I think 500 days without snow would just about be the best for me. I can handle a little cold or a little heat, but the snow really gets me down, especially when it [...]
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The giveaway ends in just a couple of days – October 15th. Read more (and enter) here.
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For anyone who’s following along, I added patterns for basket blocks 4 and 5 to the sidebar at the right. Here’s the set so far:
Block 1
Block 2
Block 3
Block 4
Block 5
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I’ve received several requests for a pattern for the Sister’s Choice quilt, so I added a PDF pattern to the free downloads at the right side of the page. This pattern is for a QUEEN size quilt, larger than the one I made for the show. Here it is in the larger size, in my [...]
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I just added a couple of links to my quilting resources page. There are complete descriptions on that page, but the names sort of speak for themselves:
Amish Country Lanes Quilt Size Calculator
365 Days of Free Motion Quilting Filler Designs
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Frogdancer mentioned a soup swap on her blog, and I was intrigued. How do you swap soup? Apparently it involves posting a recipe for soup and listing your site on the Turkeycookies Soup Swap blog post. So here goes…
My favorite cookbook is called “The New Best Recipe,” by the people responsible for Cook’s Illustrated and [...]
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Way back in August, I posted about a giveaway when I reached 500 comments. I had just topped 400, and was looking forward to that next milestone. This morning we were at 498, and I held my breath, waiting for just two more. When I got home for work, there they were! You may remember [...]
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