Archive | February, 2007

Off the Bookshelf: Puzzle Quilts by Paula Nadelstern

February 15, 2007

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Puzzle Quilts,by Paula Nadelstern Actually, this book hasn’t even been on the bookshelf yet, since I just got it! I finished devouring it yesterday while I waited for my daughter at her flute lesson. I love it! It’s just so yummy that devouring is the perfect word! This new book by Paula Nadelstern is the [...]

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Creativity back on track, I think

February 13, 2007

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It’s looking better than it was on Sunday, anyway. I went to the fabric shops as planned today, and didn’t find exactly what I needed (now why doesn’t that surprise me??), but did find some hopefuls. I didn’t get to play right away though, because the day was rather full, with an appointment to make [...]

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Creativity Derailed

February 11, 2007

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Make no mistake, the almost-perfect fabric is indeed here, there’s just not enough of it. Okay, here’s what happens all too regularly lately when I start quilting (it used to be that I never started quilting, because I never stopped quilting, but lately, life gets in the way most of the time ): Last night [...]

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The 2000 Bloggers Connection

February 11, 2007

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Last month, I heard about a project called 2000 Bloggers. The original idea was the brain child of Tino Buntic. In his words: 55 million blogs… I’d like to showcase all of them, but I’ve settled on just 2000 bloggers. Bloggers come from all walks of life! Some are SEO experts. Some are writers. Some [...]

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A new quilt!!

February 6, 2007

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And it’s even mostly finished! This is the new project that I started so that I would have a quilt to use for the Swarovski crystals demo at the guild in March, and I do love the way it turned out. I think if I had to do it again, I would use a different [...]

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Appliqué Experiments

February 4, 2007

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A couple of years ago, sometime before I damaged the tendon sheaths in my hand and wrist, I started a quilt with a Feathered Star in the middle, and I planned to border it with a Jinny Beyer border print. I was kind of hoping to enter the quilt into a show that year. I [...]

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