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Anything but a quiet weekend….

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Phew… I was glad to see everyone head out to work and school this morning. The last week and particularly the weekend were so hectic that I’m wiped out, the house is trashed and I couldn’t wait to have a quiet pottering around and cleaning everything up kind of day… So what’s been going on? […]

Anything but a quiet weekend….
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Off to the sewing machine hospital

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

My trusty Pfaff has been leading me up the garden path for the last few weeks. It sometimes takes off on its own with only the lightest touch of the foot peddle and has to be forcibly restrained; it won’t wind the spools for the lower thread in a tidy fashion anymore and I wouldn’t […]

Off to the sewing machine hospital
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Day Job Stress

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

No sewing or knitting for me today. My nose is to the grindstone….. Why is it that it never rains but it pours….? Helen

Day Job Stress
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The unshrinkable stash

Saturday, November 6th, 2010

I’m constantly surprised at how little impact each quilt I make has on my stash. When I’m cutting out hundreds of triangles or squares and stitching for days, it feels like I’m getting through fabric by the ton. Then I look at my stash and more often than not, I can’t even tell where I […]

The unshrinkable stash
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Autumn Scrappy Star

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Isn’t this  a delightful quilt? It was made by my Canadian sister-in-law and it fits so well in her house in the woods on Vancouver Island. To me it has ‘autumn’ written all over it! It’s a Scrappy Star quilt from Fat Quarter Friendly by Fons and Porter and it’s made in homespun fabrics in […]

Autumn Scrappy Star
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