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Stars in my Hand, ALS , and Bright Eyes

16. June 2007

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As I travel around the blogosphere and visit with my favorite bloggers like Jane Ann and Kristin, I aspire to be as they are: eloquently descriptive writers who take their readers with them on their journeys through life, sharing the good times, sometimes seeking solace and support during bad times, and connecting with their readers [...]

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Quilt Retreat: Quilt, Eat, Sleep, Repeat!

24. April 2007

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High on the (very) short list of things to love about living here: spending the weekend quilting (and eating and sleeping) in an 850-year-old monastery. The Kloster Schöntal, to be exact. The condensed version: good food, good company, good quilting, happy weekend. The uncut version: Kloster Schöntal is about one hour from [...]

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Creativity Derailed

11. February 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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A new quilt!!

6. February 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 [...]

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Free quilt patterns galore!

16. December 2006

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I was surfing the web today (feeling a bit ill, so not doing much else really) and found this absolutely wonderful site: FreeQuilt.com. It’s a collection of links to other quilting and sewing sites around the Internet with free patterns for download. In other words, mega legwork already done by someone else, [...]

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Inspirational Quilting

3. December 2006

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I found my way to the APQS forum where the longarm quilter gals hang out, and I saw this absolutely stunning quilting, and just had to share. I can’t post the pic here of course, but you can follow these links to the first pic, and the second one (you’ll need to scroll down [...]

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