On My Design Wall
Happy Quilting!
Maggie
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Happy Quilting!
Maggie
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Monday Oldies
Good Morning and Happy Monday!There was a chill in the air this weekend, and I had to break down and turn on the furnace. It's warm and wet again this morning, but I know this is only a temporary reprieve. So, since we're all getting back into the rhythm of quilting, I thought I'd get back to the Monday Oldie patterns.
I got a lot of requests for these Nursery Rhyme patterns back while I was moving and they were packed away, so thought I'd repost them now that I've found them again. The first set I
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Happy Thanksgiving Weekend!
Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/11/egreetings/image/01.swf
and Happy Quilting!
Maggie
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Harry Potter and Bugs
As we move towards fall, I'm thinking it's time to re-read the Harry Potter series. It's been 6 years since I read them all, in sequence, and I'm (over)due! And since there's not much worth watching on TV these evenings . . . . maybe I'll do just that! When you start seeing "signs", you just know it's time. For example . . . . . I keep waiting for the entire Weazley family to come tumbling out of this closet. . . . . .(Read more) of this post on Patchmaker's Blog...
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Love / Hate
I have a love/hate relationship with my rosebushes! They're everywhere in my yard! When I moved in June, the scent was overwhelming with all the blooms. They're also invasive - throwing out 12 foot runners with thorns a half inch long, and literally burying everything in their path.But aren't they gorgeous sitting on the counter on a rainy fall day?
Happy Quilting!
Maggie
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It Must be Fall . . . .
It must be fall . . . . I'm knitting socks. That seems to be a yearly thing. Every fall I decide I'm going to have warm feet this winter, and get busy and knit a pair of socks - which I never wear - but I could if my feet were cold!This year I tried a new pattern, knit with worsted weight yarn, meaning they were infinitely faster to knit than if I'd used sock yarn. This pattern was given to me by a friend who promised it was the easiest sock pattern she knows of, and she
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Another Tribute
I lost a friend this week. He hasn't been with me for a few years now, but I knew where he was, and how he was doing. His name was Hefner, and he was a Maine Coon cat. And he was 19 years old.I first met BooBoo (as Hefner was known back then) when his owner brought him to stay at my boarding kennel. She brought him a few times, and we became friends. She was, and I'm sure still is, a beautiful young girl, who wanted to go back to school and study something that interested
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Category: Maine Coon cat
Morning Visitors
Happy Quilting!
Maggie
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A Tribute to Virginia Avery
Virginia Avery was one of the true Ladies of Quilting. I know her work inspired me in my first quilting years; her pieces were the ones that were "different", and back in the 1980's when I started to get serious about quilting, "different" was hard to find. She has recently passed away, close to her 100th birthday, and to honor her, The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Timms is offering this tribute. Please realize that most of this video originally aired in 2007, when she was a mere 94 years old (by my calculations).So pour
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A Finish!
This is how I spent my week . . . . . it's a queen size, in one of my own designs, and it's heading off to its new home next week.
Oh, and I also did a bit of mindless sitting by the water, watching the world go by:
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Category: Granville Ferry, queen size quilt
