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HELP - Can anyone tell me why my published entry doesn't look a thing like it does when I'm creating it ?????I can't make the pictures stay where I put them - & what is that huge gap in yesterday's...
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PURGING
My quilt guild had our annual UFO auction last week. Everyone brought quilting related books, fabrics, tools & UFO's ( UnFinished Objects ) to the meeting and we bid on other people's stuff. I...
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Renewal -Yup I'm Back
Spring is here (well almost) - time for some fresh new fabrics. I love getting back in my dye studio again. I'm going to be vending at the Northern Lights Quilt Show in April www.nlqg.org so I've been...
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Springtime in NH
Well, on the bright side, more time for snow dyeing.Keep thinking of warm days ahead and REMEMBERto
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A Little Quilt Music
When I'm machine quilting I love to crank up the music & dance with the quilts. (Come on quilters, don't you do this too!) This nice freehand feather was done to the sounds of Van Morrison with a...
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Happy Birthmonth
Yes MONTH - one day is just not enough. And what better way to celebrate than to treat myself to a big juicy order of dyes from Dharma. Lots of yummy colors - can't wait to dive in.I ordered this on...
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Northern Lights Quilt Show
This past weekend I was a vendor at the Northern Lights quilt show. It was amazing - I had so much fun. I saw lots of old friends & met so many great people. A few pics of some of my fabrics -...
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PADUCAH ( title to be read outloud in the "Oprah Favorite things voice"...
Wow what a crazy whirlwind week I've had - It's hard to believe that last Sat. I was still in Paducah. This was NH when I left & since then I have seen every weather condition you can think of -...
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More Paducah - The Wall
A huge wall runs along the river to keep the flood waters out of Paducah - when the waters begin to rise the metal flood gates are put into place. The problem here is that the Convention Center, where...
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After we came back from Paducah - I did a program at my sister's quilt guild in Atlanta. Jen Greer did a really nice post about my visit there. Check it out...
View ArticleGreen Mountain Quilters Guild, VT - I'm Vending
WOOO HOOO - just found out I will be vending my hand dyed fabrics at the Green Mountain Quilters Guild meeting in Vermont this Saturday, May 14th. The meeting is held in Bethel VT at Whitcomb High...
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Drop what you are doing and read this incredible blog post by Austin Kleon. This link was just sent to me by a friend and it is the most succinct, dead-on-target thing I've ever read about making...
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Fun with Bigfork Bay Cotton Company
PEACE by artist Paris BottmanThanks to Gail Peck from our local quilt shop, The Quilter's Workshop, in Newport, NH (http://www.gailpecksquiltersworkshop.com/) for sponsoring a very interesting program...
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SPRING IS ON THE WAY
Well we finally have some snow-just in time to usher in the first day of March.A good time to hunker down and do some projectsI just mailed this out to my sister for her birthday hope she doesn't see...
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FAST FUN EASY QUILT
Last November, at The Gathering http://www.aquiltersgathering.com/in Nashua, NH we saw this pattern over & over. Several vendors featured it using different pattern names, tools &...
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MORE...
My friend Jann has made several beautiful Square Dance quilts. Jann is an accomplished weaver, beader and quilter. She has a wonderful mastery of color. She uses primarily batiks and hand dyed fabrics...
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THE GIRLS
Art dolls made from fabric that I've dyed and stamped. The stamps are handmade, super simple AND FUN. This doll pattern was in Quilting Arts Magazine Issue #8 Winter 2002I've been dinkin' around with...
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Soo Nipi Quilters
We had a wonderful guild program this week presented by Phyliss Anderson. Phyliss has just written a new book, due out in June, titled Sweet'N Sassy Templates Diamond Quilts. Along with her new...
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