Puddle Jumper Quilt

15 Feb 2013 | Other RSS posts by

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A couple days ago I showed you my crazy adventure in Free Motion Quilting mistakes.   I’m happy to report the quilt is fixed up and finished.  Hooray.  Thank goodness I rotated the quilt 90 degrees on my quilt frame to make those drip/puddle swirls more smooth.  Are they the smoothest thing ever… yeh, nope.  But they are way better.  I have affectionately named the quilt Puddle Jumper because “RAIN” was just too straight forward.

NewSwirls2

It was quite tricky



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Rain!!!

11 Aug 2012 | Other RSS posts by

Lansing MI has been so dry for so long that I thought it would never rain again.  Thursday it started and finished up this afternoon…the best kind of rain….long and gentle.  The result is more rain than we have had all summer.

2.5 inches in my yard.  Prior to that I had .5 inches all summer.

I just got a rain barrel last week and it was full in no time! now I want to get 3 more!

The



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Heather Ross and other goodies!

10 Nov 2011 | Other RSS posts by

It’s time for another rendition of  Acquisitions and Takeovers..

Over the past few weeks I’ve been slowly snagging goodies like  a little magpie every time I sneak into the Spool of Thread.

First up, Spring Street by Carolyn Gavin/Lila Rogers Studio for P&B Textiles.

Oh . My . Word . Can’t you see all the fussy cutting potential in this charming charming thing? In fact that’s exactly why I bought it..

LOOK AT THIS BIKE!!



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