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Monday night was my guild meeting and that's when I pick up my finished quilts from the long arm quilter, and pass another top off to her. I'm always excited to see what she has done. So on Tuesday I decided I should get the binding put on the quilt I picked up the night before and I should get the binding on the quilt I'd picked up the month before--- I'm running a bit behind here. By Wednesday,

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Give my your tired, your poor, your wayward poultry yearning to be free.... or something like that. In the last week I've had 2 different bloggers ask me if I would be willing to give a good home to chicken blocks and chicken fabric they had in their homes. And I couldn't say no!! First are these wonderfully dotty chicken blocks from Stephanie at Kwiltz by Stephanie.And she sent other goodies too

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Wow, this was quite an adventure and I had no idea where I was going to end up when I started this quilt. It began with this pattern, String Beans, by Stephanie at Loft Creations. As you can see I was dazzled by a multitude of fabrics in rainbow colors- polka dots, checks, plaids and stripes - yikes! (you can click on the pictures to see the all the different fabric designs.)Originally I thought

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About a week or so ago, I won a giveaway from Laurie over on Button Floozies blog -- a card of lovely vintage buttons! So pretty! Thanks Laurie!Now with all the wildly colored things you see on this blog you may think that I'm not into vintage stuff, but I am! Particularly vintage buttons, but do not ask me to sew a plain white button back on your shirt - LOL!I am fortunate to have some vintage

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Yesterday I complained about all the gray days we had last week (I know I'm whiny that way.) So in my sewing I tried bring some color into my life- I may have gone a bit overboard.Those 4 rectangles on the left are going to be new placemats to show off my Fiestaware dishes. I used the new line of Moda fabric A Stitch in Color. Isn't it wonderfully happy?? And then there is my Swoon along block

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Well I didn't mean to disappear last week. Nothing momentous happened to keep me from blogging but the general malaise of a blah week. I swear the sun did not shine at all for 6 days straight. Gray, shades of gray, foggy, rainy - yuck! Okay, it wasn't ice and snow and for that I am grateful but I need sunny days to give me energy. There were several days when I thought Cincinnati had been

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Okay this design wall is the result of the sewing I got finished on Saturday. One more Swoon block (that makes 6 of 9 done) and a bunch of String Beans blocks, 22 of the 45 I plan to make.This was a good combination of sewing since the Swoon block took lots of attention and patience, and the String Beans blocks are like eating potato chips - you can't stop at one! String Beans is a new pattern by

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I hope everyone had a very enjoyable weekend. I was able to do some sewing and some stitching and some knitting so it was a good one for me. Today I was out of the house most of the day so my choice of a sampler for Sunday is one I already had pictures of - The Mystery Sampler from Blackbird Designs. This is one of my absolute favorite samplers I have ever stitched.Now by the time I stumbled

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Oh my goodness - I've never had this much fun with green vegetables before! I got my copy of the String Beans pattern by Stephanie at Loft Creations on Tuesday and couldn't wait to play with it. These blocks sew up very quickly and you can't stop at just one. I had this polka dot background fabric sitting on my cutting table. It is called The Pixie Pops and is from Timeless Treasures. The other

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Oh how I love a title with alliteration - Pincushions on Parade is the brain child of Beth at Love Laugh Quilt. Go over and check out the pincushions links - there are some great ones!Here are my participants - I've arranged them in categories. First we have the avian pincushions -a pair of wise owls and a large contingency of poultry is represented - everybody scoot close together and smile! I

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I got an email from a friend saying that she was having trouble reading my blog in Google Reader and that it was freezing up when she tried to comment. I read on someone else's blog the other day that Blogger had installed a new comment program and it had some bugs. There was a suggested fix but I can't figure it out since I'm still using the old Blogger interface and not the new one. (I tend to

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Saturday gave me several hours of free time to play with my Swoon blocks and I was able to finish up the one I started last Monday, complete a additional block and cut out the fabrics for 3 of the remaining 4 blocks. That was a pretty successful day in my book, but the I do have rather low standards - LOL! Here's how it looks so far...Can you see the hot/cold arrangement of fabrics so far? Some

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Oh the sun is shining and the dusting of snow has disappeared. The weatherman says we'll have a high back in the 50's on Tuesday followed by a precipitous drop to a high in the 20's on Wednesday. That's what I like about the weather in Ohio, you can always count on it changing. LOL! So I was puttering about the house trying to figure out which sampler to show today and I realized that for the

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Well it isn't the inch to an inch and a half that they predicted, but we did get a little snow. This is the view out of my kitchen window - the chickens guard my bird feeders. It is a great day to stay inside and that is just what I'm doing. I've already made a pan of lasagna so all I have to do is pop it in the oven for dinner. And I'm cozy under a quilt doing a bit of knitting.Earlier in the

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I am very gradually getting the Christmas stuff put away and replacing those decorations with something different. I started in the kitchen and replaced the gingerbread boy quilt with this one which I stitched a long long time ago. Sorry these pictures aren't the greatest. It is a gray rainy day. The first pic is of the quilt on the floor in my sewing area.And here it is hanging on the wall in

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What to do? What to do? So I was pondering which PIP (project in progress) I should exhume from its hermetically sealed storage container and place on my design wall when I read about the Swoon A Long on i'm a ginger monkey's blog. Yes - that's the one I'll release from its plastic tomb!Now the good part of restarting this project is I already have 3 blocks done, so I'm 33% of the way finished

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I had every intention of responding to each and every one of you who left a comment about the cupcake liners -- I really really did. But then I putzed around yesterday doing a bit of knitting and cross stitching and laundry. And today I spent knitting and sewing up a back for the Carol's Stars quilt and laundry, and now it is Sunday evening and it is a bit late - so sorry! I did enjoy reading

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In my continuing saga of trying something new, I played with paper cupcake liners...like these...Ok, I might have a gotten a little carried away but I got the majority of these from the dollar spot at Micheal's. And about 4 packages of them came from the cake decorating area and they weren't much more than a dollar. All in all an inexpensive indulgence. And you ask what I might do with 975 paper

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It is a new year and I'm trying to do some new things - not like exercising more, or eating healthy or not spending money- I've already shown that I'm not good at those things. I'm looking at other pursuits that are new to me. One of the things I've tried is adding a blog list to my blog that updates -- do you see it there on the right? You can click on them and you'll be whisked away to their

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This is the first Design Wall Monday of 2012 and I am ready! Today I have finished my Carol's Star blocks (or as they are more wordily known as - the 16 patch checkerboard sawtooth stars). To say this is a bright quilt is a bit of an understatement. It is very very yellow and the large scale florals are bold and bright too. I love how it all came together.Now it isn't as "purchase free" a quilt

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Another year begins and I have a little piece to show that sums up a philosophy I truly believe in.....Sewing mends the soul! At least it mends mine! I am so grateful that as a young girl I was taught how to sew and crochet which lead to making quilts, clothes, cross stitch, knitting and lots of other crafty things. When I'm involved in a creative project it makes me feel good inside and out.

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Have you wondered? Oh I hope so. Well, I haven't been on a tropical holiday. No, instead I have been waiting (not patiently) at home for my local cable provider to come and fix my internet connection. It began with a call to them the day after Christmas asking to again fix a problem they assured me was taken care of a month ago. And yes, they had fixed it then, but it had reverted to the same

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Wishing all of you wonderful people who read my blog the Merriest of Christmases and the Happiest New Year! I wish I could send all of you a card but since I can't I'll send you a picture of the ones I made this year. He reminds me of the decorations of the 50's - my childhood!Hope this season gives you plenty of wonderful memories! carol fun

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...and the tree has been trimmed...... and I am pooped! Every year it seems to take me longer to get these jobs done. Don't get me wrong I love Christmas I just get stressed out trying to do it all, when in fact I'm doing less and less. It does look pretty when you get it up, doesn't it?Now I showed close ups of the stockings last year (you can look at the Sunday entries for December 2010). They

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I have another 2 Santas to show this Sunday - Viking Santa and Old Man Santa - I know they aren't clever names but its the best I can do at the moment.I was going for an Eric the Red vibe with this one - bushy red beard and I used bits of a metallic leather to "lace" up his boots. I think the little tree and red bird are a nice touch.Old Man Santa got a full helping of decorative stitches - long

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Another week has blown by me, I really need to pay closer attention. However, I did get a few things accomplished. Want to see my boys' bathroom? I spent about 3 hours cleaning it. No - I didn't think so. What about some Christmas-y stuff? This is little grouping hangs on the wall in my breakfast nook.The dishes are Debbie Mumm plates from years ago. Does anyone else remember when she had sets of

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I got another block or two done on this quilt - no name for it yet and calling the blocks 16 patch sawtooth stars is accurate but a little wordy. They need a catchy name - checkerboard stars or Carol's stars -- ok that's a bit presumptuous - LOL!This layout will need 13 blocks and I have 6 stitched. I have all the parts for the other 7 cut out and ready to go. Too bad there are lots of other

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I fully intended to post this yesterday but instead I fell asleep in my recliner right after dinner and that's the last thing I remember till this morning. I must have gone upstairs to bed since that is where I woke up - boy was I tired! So better late than never, more Santas!I call the one on the left the rustic Santa and the one on the right is my White Christmas Santa. White Christmas is my

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but not mine! Oh well -- isn't this a fun quilt? My friend Laurey did this one and I just love it.In fact I love it so much I'm going to make one of my own and today I went out and bought that exact same border fabric at Joann's - its a Susan Winget.Now I don't know the name of this pattern (Laurey if you read this email me the name, please-- thank you) but as Laurey explained it there was a

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On Sunday I remembered I had a bunch of little blocks done for a Schnibble made with Mary Engelbreit Christmas fabric and thought it would be a nice fresh new decoration for this season. I got them out, squared them up and laid them out on my table to sew them together - and then Big Dude came to keep me company.Ahem - Big Dude, your big rump is obscuring my layout. Now we are blessed to live in

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December??? How did it get to be December already? So far, the only Christmas decorations I've put out are the sorry looking wreaths on my front door. I need to redo them this week. However I did want to bring a little holiday spirit to my blog so for this month I will be showing some needlework from long long ago-- my needlepoint period of 20 years ago. I stitched these up for a needlepoint shop

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Oh my goodness - it is clearly evident that I'm always working on a lot of different projects at the same time, even though I know I'd probably get more done if I just stuck with one or two.... but then something catches my eye and off I go veering off in yet another direction. Yesterday this arrived in my mailbox...the Feb. 2012 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting. I love the quilt on the

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Thanks to every one of you who sent me positive thoughts for all the events this week so far. The funeral visitation went as well as it could and the driving rodeo on Monday went off without a hitch and the trip to Ohio State and back yesterday was a long day but had many positive elements. Last night I collapsed in a heap in my recliner where I slept soundly till 3am when my oldest son gently

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I got a few more of the flower blocks done this week and up on my design wall, but now I'm in a decision dilemma as to which direction I want to take this quilt. Additionally, I have set up some parameters for myself which add to the situation- I want to make this quilt totally out of fabric I already own. I have plenty of tone on tone yellows and oodles of the white on white background fabric,

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Today I have another sampler just back from the framers- hey, Joann's keeps printing good coupons and I keep using them, LOL! This is a Blackbird Design from their Schoolgirl Sampler series back in 2003 and it titled "Star Sampler". The Schoolgirl's series purpose was "the perfect way to begin working on overdyed linen, learning a new stitch with each chart." Since I had already done lots of

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I have something finished for Friday besides polishing off the cranberry sauce...this pair of socks. Now I'm not sure anymore if these are cool in steampunk kinda way or just simply ugly, but they are done.This is another pair of plain vanilla stockinette socks - the kind I always take with me to keep me occupied while waiting. Totally mindless knitting. The yarn is Regia Design Line- Random

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Hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving! I'm off to take my turkey out of the oven and release the cranberry sauce from its metal containment unit! LOL - I love the jellied stuff! Feasting and napping - my kinda day!carol fun

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I was able to sew for a couple of hours on Friday, Saturday and Sunday - it was great! First things first.... my Dazzling Debbies quilt - it is completely sewn together!I am very happy with the way it turned out and can't wait to send it off to my long arm quilter. Another quilt completely from my stash - so it is a free quilt, right?? (don't burst my bubble here - LOL) And completing that quilt

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Sunday again.... and I have a little sampler fresh from the framers. The title is Simply 855 and it is yet another Ewe & Eye & Friends piece. This is one of the few EEF pieces I've ever seen that was charted to use just one color of floss. As I remember the 855 referred to either an Anchor or DMC color but I used an overdyed floss on this.The stitching measures only 4 1/2 inches square but they

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Friday, again??? I don't know how this happens. Ok I do know, but I don't want to recognize the streaking hands of time. I did get a few things finished up this week between running hither, thither and yon, but never getting more than 10 miles from home. First is a scarf I actually finished knitting a while ago but didn't get around to blocking till this week. It is a variation of the pattern

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Well it is amazing how much one can get accomplished if one doesn't spend hours sitting glassy eyed in front of their laptop on Pinterest. Oh my goodness, have you stumbled into this abyss? I love it and I loathe it. I can spend forever pinning pretty pictures to my boards and telling myself how creative I'm being - LOL! After a marathon session on Friday evening/Saturday morning I gave myself an

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Well the 3 day weekend I had hoped for on Thursday didn't really materialize. My oldest son got caught up in a crisis at the office and had to work on Friday. My younger son caught a nasty cold and was miserable all weekend. So I stayed home and got a lot of sewing, stitching and knitting done instead. All in all, not a bad way to spend a weekend. This Sunday I have another Ewe & Eye & Friends

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I have plenty of quilting type sewing I could do - start assembling the blocks for my Dazzling Debbies quilt, put the binding on my Flurry quilt that is back from my long arm quilter, finish up any number of quilts I have started which are presently residing in hermetically sealed ziploc bags - but nooooooo, instead I am going to make me some pajamas!!Now this tangent started when I saw some

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Okay, back on Friday I bemoaned my lack of math skills and cheered myself up with new fabric (and a candy bar) from Joanns. I fretted over it for a while and then I knuckled down on Saturday evening and cut out the additional squares and triangles I needed.This is my Dazzling Debbies - taken from Dec/Jan 2012 issue of Quilt magazine. I'm enjoying using lots and lots of different fabrics from my

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Where does the time go? and I not just speaking of the hour time change that annoys me twice a year. The weekdays go fast and the weekend go by at warp speed and before I know it, it is already Sunday evening. I missed the daylight and had to take these pictures inside so they could be better, but it is still a pretty sampler- My Quaker House by Blackbird Designs. I'm very pleased with this frame

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Wait- that isn't fair to 2 year old children. They're just discovering numbers. Well I was so proud of myself for getting ALL the pieces of this quilt cut out. This the cover quilt, Dazzling Stars, from the Dec/Jan 2012 issue of Quilt magazine. I'm using my Debbie Mumm fabrics for this one.With ALL my squares and triangle cut and waiting for me I figured I would push fabric through the sewing

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Well the actual honey badger can't (this nugget of useless information brought to you by Wikipedia),but my Honey Badger socks can perch in a tree with assistance. This is a free pattern on Ravelry.com.The yarn is a honey colored Lorna's Laces called Butterscotch. I love the color and the feel of this yarn. The pattern has a lacy look and when you put them on...it takes on a cabled appearance. (

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Well I found my camera. And where was it you ask? Hmmmm.. ok, when I ask my oldest son where something might be, he sarcastically answers "have you looked up my butt?" (I'm ok with this because sarcastic doesn't fall far from the sarcastic tree and I've been know to have similar answers.) However in this case his answer was very very close to the truth. I was literally sitting on my camera. It

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Doesn't "encore edition" sound better than "repeat"? Yes, I thought so too. Anyway I can't seem to find my camera. I know it is in the house but I haven't located it so I thought I show a sampler that I have shown before. Now this sampler has a lovely Fall-ish feel and I originally showed it back in May of 2010, so a lot of you may not have seen it before. If you have, well, I think it deserves

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I LOVE looking at all the quilts in the Blogger's Quilt Festival and I hope that you will enjoy my offering. This is my Swooning Over Halloween quilt. It is a based on the uber-popular Swoon quilt by Camille of Thimble Blossoms.I knew that I wanted this quilt to fit on the wall next to the fireplace so that limited the size. I scaled down the blocks and then went to town with my Halloween

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Well yesterday while the sun was still shining (as opposed to today when it is grey, cold and rainy), I dragged this quilt outside to snap some pictures. This is a Jaybird quilt pattern called Unwind.It takes a jelly roll (it is the Oh My! line by Sanae) and some background fabric and uses the Lazy Angle ruler by Creative Grids. This is a quick quilt to stitch up and I like how it shows off the

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Well back on Thursday I said I was going to finish putting the borders on my Charming Stars quilt and that I wanted to start the cover quilt from Quilt magazine. Only half of that statement occurred - ahem.... here is the start of a new quilt called Dazzling Scraps (their title not mine - LOL!)I may call it Dazzling Debbie! This is my second quilt this year with my cherished Debbie Mumm scraps. I

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Well yesterday was certainly sunnier than today, but at least it isn't rainy and cold. I took pictures of this Sunday's sampler out on my screen porch. I'm pretty sure it is a Chessie & Me but I don't have a clue what the title is. I searched a lot of sites and all I found were more charts I'd like to have. This is one sampler that feeds my log cabin home fantasy. I'd love to have a little cabin

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... and I took some pictures of my latest quilt! This first picture is my attempt at "arty"...I'm not really good at this. (Notice chickens in lower right corner- I should have turned them around - they have polka dots on them!)The quilt pattern is Thimble Blossoms - A Piece of Cake. And the fabric is by Thimble Blossom too - I forget the name of the collection.It looks pretty spread out on the

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Ta-dah! A knitting finish!! My wrist is feeling a little better each day and I am so happy to be able to knit again. These Monkey socks are for my friend, Stephie.(Sorry these pics are kinda dark - it is a cloudy rainy day today.)Stephie dyed this yarn with the musical Wicked in mind. It is her favorite musical and when I think of Oz, flying monkeys always come to mind. In celebration of

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Well I got all of the blocks done for this Charming Stars quilt and I got them all sewed together with the sashing.I picked the large scale print for the border but I didn't have enough energy to get it put on yesterday. And it isn't going to happen today, but as Scarlett said "tomorrow is another day."I really like these bold colors. The collection is Moda's Rooftop Garden but it doesn't credit

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Now where was I? Okay on Thursday my computer started acting up and by the end of the day I had seen the" blue screen of death" and the "critical system dump" message several times. So I carted it off the the repair shop and was pleasantly surprised to find it only needed a $20 repair. And then on Friday I started feeling puny - stuffy and achy - and by Saturday morning I was truly yuckky. I

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Oh my goodness - aren't these little guys just too stinking cute??These adorable chicks were made by my friend Lois, in Nebraska. They are a birthday gift and I LOVE THEM. She knows what I like -- the chicken wire basket in yellow would definitely go home with me if I saw it anywhere.And those tail feathers are perfect! I'm not sure how she made these but they are stiff - maybe dipped in starch

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Oh my- these blocks are like potato chips - you can't make just one! This pattern is Charming Stars from Moda Bake Shop. The fabric is the Rooftop Garden line from Moda. I don't know who designed this line but I love it. I was unaware of this collection until I saw the charm squares at Fabric Shack but it was instant love. (There is no rhyme or reason as to the open spots I was just slapping them

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It has been a beautiful Fall weekend and there isn't any place I want to be more than at home. I spent some time sitting out on my screen porch enjoying the weather and that's where I took these pictures of my sampler for Sunday.This is "There's No Place Like Home" by Drawn Thread. I love the little ceramic heart button in the center.Little Fall and Winter scenes side by side with...Spring and

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On Monday night I got my Halloween Swoon quilt back from my long arm quilter and all I can say is WOW! My pictures do not do her work proper justice. She filled this quilt with goodies. Here it is lounging in the shade in the my backyard.And here is a close up of one of the blocks to give you some idea of the quilting. She outlined all the motifs in the border and then randomly added designs over

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Well the boxes have been sitting in the family room for almost 2 weeks but yesterday I finally got motivated and put out my Halloween decorations. Here is the mantle in all its pumpkin finery!I had forgotten about this little wall quilt and rediscovered it while looking for something else. I made is years ago and have no memory of who's pattern it is. I do vaguely remember it was paper pieced.I

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Yesterday evening I was able to get the borders on my Flurry quilt and I'm sure glad I didn't wait till today to do this as all I have done is run in the car. I swear days like this are the reason I can put 500 miles on my car in a week and never get more than 10 miles from home - sheesh! Anyway back to the quilt....I added 3 rounds of borders and it ended up being 64 X 78 inches - a little

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Oh my goodness, Sunday is almost over and I've busy all day. I'm glad I finally have a chance to sit a spell and show you another sampler for Sunday. This is another Ewe & Eye & Friends and is titled House on Hollyhock Hill.I love hollyhocks but have only had spotty success with them in my garden. No luck this year so I'll definitely plant some more next year. I like the look of the satin stitch

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Yippee! I got my cast off yesterday and now I'm wearing a removable brace/splint. It is soooo nice to be able to wash both of my hands! And the application of undergarments this morning was much smoother. Now typing, while a little painful, is much easier with access to all my fingers. I'm surprised at how much strength and range of motion I've lost in only a month. So to counteract that I

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Here is this week's status of my Flurry quilt and the picture points out some problems.First, I'm short a block. I had one sewn up but it didn't make me happy. I saw some new Christmas fabric at Joanns on Saturday but the line at the cutting table was 4 deep and I didn't have the patience to wait. I'll go back this week.Second, as I was looking at the picture I thought "hmmm..this would look

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It has been a rather quiet weekend - my favorite kind - although I haven't gotten as much stitching in as I has hoped. Oh well, that's always the way it goes, isn't it? Here is another oldie but goodie from Ewe & Eye & Friends called Bee Virtuous.I think this was charted with the line "Be virtuous" but I changed it to "bee my love". I liked the pun with all those cute little brass bees and that

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Well I finally got around to putting out some of my Fall decorations and I came across this Schnibble. This is the Four Corners pattern - super easy. The fabric is a line of Sandy Gervais from a couple of years ago. I love all of Sandy's collections because she always has a wide variety of prints and fillers and focal designs.And here is my foyer display. I'm really into draping a Schnibble over

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Good day to stay inside and sew - too bad others who live in this house want meals and toilet paper. A trip to the grocery can't be avoided. Oh well, at least these blocks will cheer me up.This is my take on the Kate Spain Flurry pattern. Lots of fun Christmas prints. I love this vintage looking Santa - kinda retro 1950s!And Santa goes tropical in this one - notice the reindeer driving the

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First I want to thank all of you for the wonderful birthday wishes. They made my day very special. I wish I could reply to all of them but the new cast I got on Thursday has done nothing to improve my manual dexterity. The only good thing is the doctor said that perhaps it could come off in two weeks. Keep your fingers crossed - I would do it too but well, I can't! Drats!Anyway another week

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Betcha don't - well today is my birthday! I know you are surprised, so am I every year when it rolls around. I don't feel any older but the number keeps increasing - oh well it sure beats the alternative. So what am I doing for my birthday? Well I'd like to give one of you a present. Over the past 2 weeks when I went water skiing in my bathroom and broke my wrist lots of you have left wonderful

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Actually my design wall is blank at the moment - I know - how sad is that? But this is what it looked like on Saturday- ta dah!The Halloween Swoon quilt top is done! I thought about floating the blocks from the border but all I have left of the background fabric is a sliver of fabric. I love that Holly Holderman dot and if I ever see it again I'm buying 5 more yards. This is the final block I

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Okay I know I said I was going to leave the Halloween Swoon blocks for later but I just couldn't do it. I could hear them taunting me from the design wall, and well, I just had to show them who's the boss around here. So this one is totally sewn together.And this one is partially finished.I don't know if I can finish the whole top in time to get it quilted for Halloween but I don't want to take

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I hope that you are all winding down from a relaxing Labor Day weekend. I really haven't done much of anything and in fact it was late last evening before I realized it was already Sunday - yikes! Sorry for missing Sampler Sunday. I didn't have any pictures ready to go, so this morning I crammed this little piece in the frame I bought a while ago. Don't look too closely. When both of my hands are

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and the bottom of my heart! Thank you for all your sweet comments. I would love to respond to each one individually but at the rate I am typing it will take about 6 weeks and hopefully by then the cast will be off. OMG if this cast isn't off in 6 weeks I will have to attack it with my rotary cutter. So have you picked up on my intense dislike of this cast? Subtle I ain't! Monday and Tuesday I had

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Well this is not the way to start the day - personal hygiene is overrated - I slipped today getting out of the shower and you know where this is going - I broke my left wrist - insert lots and lots of four letter words. Okay trying to look at the bright side, it is my left wrist and I'm right handed. They did leave my fingers pretty open since I explained that I knit and stitch to keep from

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Doing the happy dance here.... I got my Beatrix Potter Quaker sampler back from the framer and I LOVE it!!! As you can tell this is a BIG sampler - 23" wide, 22" high- and it was stitched on a 32count linen. It is an R & R reproduction linen and the color is called Roasted Crown blend. Such a lovely golden color. (Sorry -these pics don't do this justice- it is so pretty in real life) I

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Remember back on Monday when I said I had a busy week ahead of me, well, it certainly was. But I did get in a little crafty time. Having the pieces cut out for the Halloween Swoon blocks let me get another one sewn together. I love the center fabric on this one. It is cute animals dressed up in Halloween costumes - funny stuff - well at least I think so. And because this busy week had lots

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I had a little bit of sewing time this weekend and I got another block done for my Halloweenie version of a smaller sized Swoon block. This one is going to be the center of the quilt. The spiky pieces with the purply bat fabric has a sparkly sheen and I got some other fabrics with sparkles at Joanns the other day. Here is my layout - I went ahead and decided on which fussy cut centers

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As I took pictures of this little sampler I reflected on, in what universe did I think that doing a sampler with this much over 1 thread was a good idea? Obviously my eyesight was better than it is now. ( I have an eye exam scheduled for this week to boost my bifocals.) This sampler is by Chessie & Me and has the unassuming name of Chessie's House #4. The stitching area measures a puny 3

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I am in LOVE with this block! I love sewing it up in the original Swoon size with my Kaffe Fasset fabrics and I love sewing it up in my modified size in these Halloweenie fabrics! And I can see me making another quilt with this block using some of my many Moda precuts. LOVE IT! In between loads of laundry I got 2 more blocks made. I always like a fussy cut center to a sawtooth star so I

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I've been sewing on and off today for 8 hours -(in retrospect lots more off than on). And this is all I have to show for it..... ... a Swoon block done in Halloween fabrics. Now this isn't a hard block by any means but I have been moving in super slo-mo all day. I did redraft the block so it finishes 16" versus 24" in the pattern. Why? Because I have an idea for a Halloween quilt to hang in

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Hey, it is still Monday in this time zone! Boy the day went fast - errands, grocery shopping, laundry, making dinner, dropping off and picking up son, dealing with erpping DH (I think he may have the flu or a touch of food poisoning) - this is the first time I've sat down today. When I woke up I thought for sure there would be time for sewing today but it hasn't arrived yet - maybe after I drag

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Well now that I'm awake (I took a 3 hour nap - it was wonderful!) I have a sampler to show for this Sunday. This is Happy Hearts Sampler by Birds of a Feather. The finish date on this one is 2002 - a nice symmetrical number! I love that this sampler had lots of places for initials of special people in my life. First off the heart that has the initial CMD was serendipity as it was graphed this

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Oh you came up with some wonderful suggestions for using my single solitary socks - sock puppets, very clever, or just pick two and wear them as a "pair" very cutting edge. Now I have no problem wearing mismatched socks as long as they are both the same weight yarn, but if they aren't I have this "princess and the pea" sensory thing going and I feel like I'm leaning to one side if one sock is

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If you can't be a good example, you'll have to serve as a horrible warning. This message is brought to you by the "horrible warning". On Saturday I was at Sock Club at Lambikins Hideaway when one person (and you know who you are) expressed concern that she had 6 socks going at the same time. Mind you this is only 3 pairs as she is knitting 2 at a time. Now I assured her that this was not a cause

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I am on a bit of a roll with inexpensive framing. I framed this one myself with a 5 X 7 tabletop frame I picked up at Joanns for half price, so it was less than $4. This sampler is Gathering Basket by Blackbird Designs.I stitched this on a piece of greeny blue linen I had in my stash. I have no idea what it is called, but it is pretty. I liked this framed for its bronzy shimmer that picks up the

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Yesterday I got up and told myself that I would get my son's two pairs of suit pants hemmed before the day was over. But first I got a bit sidetracked... you know the crafty ADHD just overcame me and I'm easily swept away, dontcha know!I've been wanting to make some of those adorable mini-boards that Lori Holt showed on her blog, Bee in my Bonnet, and I dove into that project.As you can see mine

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As I said on Saturday there was a cosmic convergence of time and motivation last week that resulted in my cleaning up my sewing area. The re-configuration of the grid shelving and the clean new design wall make me feel so energized. From previous photos you could tell how absolutely dusty and yuckky my design wall had gotten. It is just a piece of Warm & Natural batting that I adhere to the wall

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Today's offering is a little sampler that I just got back from the framers this week. This is "Wash Day" by Carriage House Samplings.Next to houses, birds are my favorite motif on samplers and this one has a a whole flock of them! I stitched this using GA Sampler Threads with floss from my stash.I'm really happy with this frame in more ways than one. First I like how the black coordinates with

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Well there has been a cosmic convergence of events -first, I cleaned up my sewing area and second Pink Chalk Studio is hosting s "Where I Sew" online tour. Now my sewing area isn't perfect but at least my photos won't land me on an episode of "Hoarders: Buried Alive". Although that could be a future possibility, I'll think about that tomorrow. (thanks Scarlett)My sewing area is in the basement of

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I have been the happy recipient of several pretty things that I want to share with you. First is this pretty wallet made by Myra of Gr8dame's Place. I love the fabric and that button stack -- thank you Myra!I won this in a "guess what Part 3 of the ">Mystery Sampler will include". Actually my "guess" was more of a wish for a house, and there is a house along with 2 sheep. Very pretty - now I just

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Last week I spent some time cleaning up, sorting out and organizing my yarn and fabric and to my surprise I found stuff I'd forgotten I had.Obviously this means that having a poor memory is a good thing because this quilt top was new all over again! This is a Thimble Blossoms pattern called "A Piece of Cake" by Camille Roskelley and the fabric is by the same designer. It is an older collection

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It is like 90 bajillion degrees outside and it just rained and it is so hot you can see the steam rising off of the streets and the roofs of the houses. So I am hunkered down in the basement family room with the AC and a fan running. I did go out on the screen porch long enough to take some pics of a sampler for today. I haven't the faintest clue what the name or the designer of this one it. And

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Yeah I know it's not a scintillating title but I'm tired. I spent the day making gigantic messes and then trying to clean them up. I was semi-successful in corralling and organizing my yarn, but my fabric area looks like my studio's has been ransacked. I was building some shelves with wire grids and connectors (shelving stuff left over from my son's college days) and I am short a number of the

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I got some time to sew and these blocks for my Sugar Dish quilt went together quickly. (Excuse my incredibly dusty design wall. I plan to change it this week. And looking at my layout some of those blocks are definitely going to be moved.) I'm making a quilt big enough for a double size bed so I figure I need it to be 10 blocks wide and 9 rows long. Since the blocks are rectangles this will

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Remember last Monday when I said it was a busy day, I lied. It was an easy day compared to the rest of the week. Tuesday was crazy running around trying to get my car back from repairs, Wednesday I was out of the house all day with a trip to Columbus for a clinic visit to OSU for my brother, Thursday I did a ton of errands that didn't get done earlier in the week, Friday, heck I don't remember

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I'm trying to post this early (for me) since I have lots of running around to do today. Well as you can see my design wall doesn't look anything like it did last Monday. Fear not the Hugs & Kisses blocks are still being worked on but I needed a little change of pace.These blocks are from a great pattern by Cluck,Cluck,Sew called Sugar Dish.The fabrics are a totally different palette from last

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Oh I have been a slug this weekend. I didn't have big plans to do anything in particular and I haven't done much of anything. I've spent time reading a couple of books by Fannie Flagg - Welcome to the World Baby Girl and Standing in the Rainbow - I love Fannie Flagg's writing. I stitched a little on the Mystery Sampler (I'm still on Part 1) and I did finish knitting my Cladonia shawl. I need to

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Okay, I'm easy carried away by the lure of a shiny new quilt project and the Farmer's Wife QAL is no exception. However, you know how patterns always tell you to read ALL the instructions before you start? Well, I didn't,...and normally I don't get burned too bad by it but this time I've goofed up. These are the 12 blocks I've completed - revel in their cuteness!I'm having a great time using my

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