New project
Well I’ve wanted to start this for ages. I want a take along handwork project for bee and other times when I'm out and having nothing to do. I wasn’t sure what fabric was required for the background...
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Pizza Box #7
Well this one was the best yet, not the best fabric colors but the best construction by me. I finally got my head around the left, right, inside out, reversed, front to back of paper piecing. The 100...
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The Resolve to Quilt
There is so much fun to be had on the net right now in quilty land. I could spend all day surfing, finding neat patterns and fabric to lust (like Amy Butlers new line!) after that I'd never get...
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Brother visit & Snow!
Well the weeks have gotten away from me, not that I was doing anything very interesting, just normal life for the most part. I did clean my house (gasp). Yes, a real cleaning with empty surfaces and...
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Pizza Box 8
The final block in the Pizza Box challenge. Yea! It was a fun one, very bright and happy fabrics. Again with the couple that don't seem to go with the rest, I sure hope mine are a bit more...
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the unorganized organized person
Well organizing and de-cluttering is all over blogland and even Oprah magazine this month. I'm a pretty organized person in general, I just don't have enough room to do it in. Nor enough money. Do...
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Back to work
Amazing how fast the weeks can slip by when you are either not busy, (so too boring to blog about) or running like a chicken to meet deadlines. I've had both the last 2 + weeks. I'll skip the boring...
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We have special cows...
On my way to a client in Parker, a good 20 miles south of the city and me, things are different. Batches of houses and shopping malls smack up against grass range that probably looks the same way it...
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A small bit of progress
against procrastination. Don't you have days where you look in the mirror and say "self you are a fool, get to it." One of the things that's been nagging at me for years is a unfinished project of...
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My Pizza Box & Socks
Yea! So pretty. Now I have to decide how to put the blocks together and how many to add. Well we have a couple of blocks that are pretty intricate and have some depth and a couple that are pretty...
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Spring!
Well spring has truly sprung in Denver, all the trees are flowering and the bulbs up, seemingly overnight. Early here as it seems to be all over the country and the UK too. We are all hoping not to...
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Well its been ages...
I had a lovely birthday lunch with my mom, a pretty spring day, we sat outside at a cafe for lunch. A very cute vase and new tulips was a wonderful gift.Those are mice on the vase and lid. Hunter...
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Busy, busy....
Ive been working hard on a drapery project that has taken a great deal of time. I was chatting with a another workroom owner friend and we agreed that the economy slowdown last couple years has led to...
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having a little quilty fun
Well still finishing up the big drapery job (including a 9+ foot window seat cushion) but the timeline has eased a bit. So I was able to get away and go to my quilt bee last week. One of our very...
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100 Block Blog Tour
Hey if you have nothing to do, or even if you have lots to do, take a break and head to www.quiltmaker.com/blogs to follow the latest 100 Blocks blog tour. Lots of fun stuff to win! Not to mention...
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Well its been ages
but I've been working around the clock it feels like. I've made chair slipcovers, and drapes, and pillows and valances and duvets and I don't know what all else. No quilting though. Had to skip a...
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Thank You!
Thank you to the men and women who lived and sometimes lost a special kind of life so we can live ours. Thanks to every generation of my family back to the Revolutionary War who in one branch or...
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Production
Been back to back projects, here are a few.These 2 story drapes were silk and lining so not too heavy even though 225" long. So here going up the table, accross, down the other side to the floor and...
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After a short intermission... ok a long one.
Poor blog has been sadly neglected between boring life and unhappinesses.Work has picked up a bit and I've put most of my energy into that each day. I only seem to have so much and then I want to go...
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Normal or what passes for it.
Been working, made some pretty French Country drapes that I only have a few snaps of, not room to hang here and I didn't get to see the house. Here is the very top of the drape, the leading edge has...
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Happy to say goodby to the heat
Hopefully so, having a spell of low 70's and it feels great. We had 72 days of over 90 degrees this summer, broke all the records, much hotter and dryer than normal for Denver. I won't complain about...
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Small loss and douldrums
You know you aren't blogging enough when you have to open your own blog and read it to find out where you left off... Major depression and hibernating tendencies...I woke up early to the charming...
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Binding Adventures
This year our quilt guild didn't have a volunteer to make next years raffle quilt so we (the board) did it. Actually Lucy our past president did 90% of it as she helped pick the fabric, then did all...
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Starting Over
I haven't forgotten my poor neglected blog but between being super busy and feeling like I didn't have much to say or a very interesting life to share, I let it slide. But I've been rethinking that....
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News & stuff
One of the biggest things happening is I have to move. Kinda knew it was coming when the apartment next door got remodeled last summer. Landlords sons are much more into making a profit than he was....
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