What I made for Anthea….
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Happy Friday
Friday is already a better day around here than Thursday. I really, really freak out about weather, and yesterday we had a doozie of a storm. But today, sunny and bright. Just a few remnants left from the storm. Actually storms. There were quite a few!
Many of you have been asking about the fabric requirements for Lucy's Beach Bag. Here they are:
Outside: 2/3 yard canvas
Trim & Handles- 1/4 yard canvas
Lining- 1/2 yard canvas
We created our sample
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Category: quilting
Odds and ends
Do you use Color Catchers?
I don’t pre-wash fabrics when making quilts, so I like to have a way to protect from bleeding dyes when I wash them, at least for the first time. I washed these separately and threw a Color Catcher sheet in with each one.
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Category: Badlands, Color Catchers, South Dakota
Book Signing Tonight!
Please join me tonight for a book signing at Colby Sew and Vac, home of That Crazy Quilty Girl. It will be held from 5-8 pm with lots of snacks and fun. If you can't make it tonight, join me tomorrow at Quilt Cabin in Colby from 9-11:30.
Love,
xoxo
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BOM Signups open!
My, oh my! I really need to get back to my Rainbow Jane.Maybe the start of the new BOM session will inspire me to move her higher on my priority list.
New sessions of all block of the month and fabric clubs start in August.
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Cilantro Recipe Ideas?
I'm a recent convert to Chipotle. My sis has been raving about it for months, and I've finally joined her camp.I fell in love with their Lime Cilantro Rice. I found a recipe here, made it last night using my rice cooker - so simple and yummy. Just follow the recipe, but dump everything in the rice cooker instead of using a pan. I didn't bother melting the butter either, just threw it in.
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Somerset Bag Pattern and Shop Updates
It's been so crazy around here. I have some GREAT news! After 1 1/2 years of health issues between the doctors' appointments, procedures, lab work and hospital visits, I finally got the ok from my doctor that all is well. It's been such a roller coaster ride and I am so happy that I am healthy once again. What a RELIEF!After the great news, I got motivated to update my Etsy shop and finished the Somerset bag pattern. The Somerset pattern is available to order right here on my
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Category: pattern
Creative Prompt #160: Dilute
to thin
dilute laws
reducing the concentration of a chemical
an equation to calculate the rate a gas dilutes.
Trademark dilution, a type of unlawful trademark use outside of the relevant market
Stock dilution, the result of new shares of stock being issued by a company, thereby diminishing the percent ownership represented by previously existing shares
Dilution gene, a gene that lightens the coat color of certain living things
Expectational Dilution, the second album by the metalcore band Overcast
When I lived in Austria we would buy (or make) juice in a
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Category: Creative Prompt, Creativity, Group project
Learn how to embroider with Fay Maxwell
A wonderful day of basic embroidery stitches, you will have fun being taught by textile artist Fay Maxwell.
Introduction to Indian Stitches - a day
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Fan Quilt blocks revisited
I recently finished a quilt made of vintage fan blocks.
I purchased 90 of the fan blocks on eBay. I think I paid about $30 for the blocks.
I am always looking for new treasures on eBay and for the past week I have been watching another lot of blocks that are almost the same (here they are below)
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Category: fan quilt, hand quilting, quilting, quilts, vintage quilt blocks
