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Bright Lights

Sunday, January 25, 2009

My parents live in a rural area in Southern Utah, about 40 miles from…well…anything. It’s a lovely area, mostly nice and quiet, with the expected wildlife like coyote, snakes, rabbits, squirrels, pheasant, elk and of course, the deer that wander all over and sometimes visit the yard. When we lived in Las Vegas [...]

Lessons Learned at Quilt Retreat

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

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The retreat was wonderful, as expected! I did take The Misery Quilt with me to work on, and really made great progress on the machine quilting. It was also good to have other quilters around for input and opinions on some of the decisions that needed to be made about thread colors and [...]

More than one way to skin a … UFO!

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

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(I purposely did not say “skin a cat” because we don’t skin cats here! And where the heck did that saying come from anyway?) I sent one of my creative works in progress into the wild yesterday, with everything needed to finish it included: pattern, cutting and piecing instructions, and necessary fabrics (except batting [...]

Quilt Retreat: Quilt, Eat, Sleep, Repeat!

Tuesday, April 24, 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 SchÃ¶ntal, to be exact. The condensed version: good food, good company, good quilting, happy weekend. The uncut version: Kloster SchÃ¶ntal is about one hour from [...]

We interrupt this UFO for a new project!

Saturday, January 13, 2007

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I spent part of the morning yesterday trying to figure out what to do with the sashing on the UFO Dresden Plate quilt, with no success. I finally started thinking about other projects that I need to do shortly here, and reluctantly put the big quilt aside for a bit. This is why UFO’s [...]