Archive | August, 2008

Quilting: Good for the Soul

8. August 2008

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Yesterday wasn’t one of the best workdays for me in recent memory. Most of the time, I’m lucky enough that my job is essentially a hobby that I get paid for, but yesterday wasn’t the norm. One of my clients was in assault mode, and inundated me with 20 emails over the course [...]

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The 14 Year Quilt Plan

7. August 2008

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Have you ever fallen in love with a quilt? I’m sure you have, but has that love affair with that quilt lasted for 14 years? Or has it been one of those flash in the pan type things, gone as soon as you’d seen something you liked better? I’ve been hoarding the March 1994 [...]

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Paisley Pavane Visits Quilt Odyssey in Pennsylvania

6. August 2008

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Paisley Pavane traveled to Pennsylvania for the Quilt Odyssey show a couple of weeks ago. I almost forgot entirely that it was there, partly because of the moving confusion still hanging around on some things, and partly because I didn’t actually pack up the quilt and send it there myself; the nice folks at [...]

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Feeding the Techie Beast

5. August 2008

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Behold the new view from my desk chair: Mmmmm, triple monitors. Yup, I finally did it; I bought a third computer monitor. I picked up the first of these beauties years ago when they were on sale at the PX, and when I got it set up I promptly decided that it was the [...]

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Am I Getting Old?

4. August 2008

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How bad is it when I can put my arms over my head and stretch, and tear up the muscles in my back and neck so bad that I’m in pain for days? [...]

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Comings, Goings, and New Friends

2. August 2008

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Life is funny sometimes. Since my friend Dawn left nearly three years ago, there hasn’t really been anyone close by that I hang out with or quilt with regularly. During one of our last outings just before she moved, we joked that I should put an ad in the paper for a new [...]

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