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Lessons Learned at Quilt Retreat

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 quilting patterns [...]

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Focused

October 28, 2007

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After a couple of extremely nonconstructive days Thursday and Friday dealing with plans for the Guild Quilt Show that I’ve volunteered to organize for next April (more on that big fun at a later date, when I can be a bit more positive about it all), I spent today tracing quilting designs on the outer [...]

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Quilt Retreat: Quilt, Eat, Sleep, Repeat!

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 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 my house, the [...]

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The promised pics of the UFO quilt from Quilt Retreat

November 19, 2006

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Okay, here are the pics, finally. It’s almost done, well, it’s done really, except for taking out the last bit of quilting that I didn’t like after I did it. Yes, I really do pick out quilting every once in a while, if I don’t like how it looks! I started this quilt as a [...]

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Weekend recap, a bit of quilting, a bit of surfing

November 13, 2006

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I managed to get almost finished with my UFO quilt that I took to the retreat last weekend. I just have one block left to quilt, and then the binding to do, so maybe today will be the finish! I recorded the Driven To Quilt Podcast Episode 12, and installed a new image gallery on [...]

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Quilt Retreat UFO Project

November 9, 2006

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So here’s a bit of the quilt that I took to the Quilt Retreat last weekend. It was so wonderful to have all that time at the Retreat to work on whatever I wanted. I am almost finished with it, and I’m hoping to have it completely done and washed in time to take it [...]

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Busy, but not quilting

November 7, 2006

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After a busy weekend at the Guild Quilt Retreat, I came home to an even busier week! And NOT the same kind of busy, definitely not quilting busy. Car stuff, dental stuff, kid taxi stuff, and web design work stuff, all designed to keep me from quilting. I did get a lot done on the [...]

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