Archive | June, 2006

New! Screensavers for your computer

June 17, 2006

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To celebrate the NQA Award, I put together a screensaver, just for you! The screensaver is full of pictures and close up views of the Stars In My Hand quilt and is available with or without background music. You can download the musical or nonmusical version, and install it on your computer for free! Enjoy!

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Stars In My Hand awarded 2nd place at NQA Show!

June 15, 2006

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Woohoo! I’m sooo excited! Yes, I’m tooting my own horn here, but I can’t help it! Stars In My Hand was awarded 2nd Place in the Bed Quilt – Pieced category at the NQA Quilt Show in Columbus, Ohio last weekend. This is my first award at a major show and I am really, really [...]

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Quilting with Patches and Shadow: No cutting today

June 15, 2006

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I guess it’s a good thing I hadn’t planned to rotary cut anything today! He’s so cute when he’s sleeping…

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I finally made my own quilting design

June 13, 2006

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This is one of the things I’m not so good at: designing my own quilting designs. I just have a mental block or something. I don’t know why, because it really shouldn’t be that hard, should it? I’ve always edited a pre-existing quilting design if I couldn’t find one to exactly fit where it was [...]

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World Quilting Team Shirts at the Quilt Shop

June 12, 2006

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Well, I’m surrounded by World Cup Mania here. I keep hearing about the World Cup, seeing ads about the World Cup, and seeing people wearing World Cup shirts. My hubby and daughter are glued to the TV watching soccer, and I don’t even go in the living room anymore. So, I designed my own version [...]

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UFO Report! A little progress here and there…

June 12, 2006

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As some of you may be aware, about two and a half years ago my friend Liz Buchanan and I decided to list all of our UFO’s so that we actually knew what we had. We even put the list into an Excel spreadsheet, with columns for what needed to be done, what was completed, [...]

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Things that keep me from quilting #2

June 11, 2006

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Okay, this is a fun thing that keeps me from quilting! I’ve been taking a class at LVS Online to learn to make digital scrapbook elements. Great fun, and I spent 5+ hours today doing my assignment for this week. Check it out! I don’t think using the computer to do scrapbooking saves any time [...]

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