Archive | September, 2008

Patchwork Times: Is that smoke I smell?

September 30, 2008

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I think my hair is on fire. I feel like I’m running around in circles, and I think I smell smoke, so that must be my hair. I looked at my blog today, just like I’ve done for the past two or three days when I’ve meant to post something, and thought “Where did the [...]

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Moda Fabrics + Electric Quilt = Quilt Design Coolness

September 24, 2008

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I was shopping for charm packs today for a small quilt I’d like to make and since Moda markets all of these cool charm packs, jelly rolls, layer cakes and other whatnots, I took a trip to the Moda site to see what’s out there now, and what’s coming up. I discovered something totally cool, [...]

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The Need to Share

September 23, 2008

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Sometimes I have this strange desire for somebody (um, anybody?) to know what I’m thinking at any given moment, and possibly be able to empathize, commiserate, share or otherwise relate to whatever it is. Maybe it’s something frustrating, or maybe it’s something completely awesome that has me fired up and wanting to share it. I’m [...]

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New Glasses and a New ‘Do

September 19, 2008

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It’s been a week (and a day) since I picked up my new glasses, and a week since I visited my favorite hairdresser, Jessica, in Stuttgart. I have to say that the glasses came off with more success than the hair, though the glasses are the cause of the current dissatisfaction with the hair. Backstory: [...]

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Ink Jet Printing on Fabric

September 17, 2008

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I’m working on a project right now that requires some fabric printing, so I got out the bottles of Bubble Jet Set 2000 and Bubble Jet Rinse this morning. I’ve had fairly good luck with this type of thing in the past, but I always dread going down this road because it’s kind of a [...]

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Let’s Talk Machine Quilting (and a Giveaway!)

September 16, 2008

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I treated myself today, and spent a little while machine quilting on a small quilt. Many of my projects these days are small-ish, and I’m really enjoying the machine quilting breaks that come along every few days. (If you’ve been following along, you’ll probably be able to figure out why most of my projects these [...]

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Shortcuts and Binding Relationships

September 15, 2008

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I have this love/hate relationship with binding. I love it, because it means that I’m almost done with the quilt, but when I get to that point, there are all these variables that have to be thought about, worked out, tried, discarded, tried again, and still when you put the binding on the actual quilt, [...]

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