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  Art by Carolyn Watson.  Print available at www.art.com I have to apologize about something.  Usually, I am so careful to give credit when I use an image that isn't mine.  I really slipped up last week when I posted "Quilting, Then and Now".  I used an image I found when I Googled "quilting bee" or "women…

  After spending a gazillion dollars to get my quilts quilted, it would be ridiculously stupid not to do the finishing touches and get those babies on my beds, right?  One of the finishing touches is making the binding, machine stitching it to the quilt, and hand sewing it down.  On a big quilt, such…

I recently had to pick up and pay for four quilts that had been sitting at my favorite quilters for far too long.  A word of advice:  Do not ever let quilts stack up at the quilter's.  The amount of money it takes to get them out of hock is enough to make your hair…

I can't quite get the lighting right, but here is a look at my first layer cake quilt project.  I finished the top in June and it has been at Prairiequeens for ages waiting to be picked up and paid for.  "Not Vanilla Latte" was finished on June 20, 2008. It was made with a…

Greetings friends.  I am a bit slow getting on with my fresh week it seems.  The weekend went by in a blur, but I did accomplish a couple of things that were high on my priority list.  Numero Uno was getting up to Prairiequeens to pick up four, yes FOUR, finished quilts that had been…

Those of you who read my blog know that this summer before I Became Gainfully Employed, I had a goal of finishing a quilt top each Friday.  I have a lot of quilt tops to show for my summer, and you see in the photo above how I store my yet-to-be-quilted finished tops.  The only…

  My husband and I had to go out on Saturday to attend a memorial service.  It was sad of course, as these affairs usually are.  The deceased was a wonderful man who died way too soon after fighting a long battle with cancer.  I have to speak candidly (when do I not?).  I have…

  I agreed to participate in a Web Sampler Challenge with Perry, Cindy, Nancy, and Lisa.  The deadline was September 1.  I loved the fabric (leftovers shown above) and the blocks turned out very pretty.  There were issues with the border instructions in the finishing kit I chose, so I was planning on making a…

Have you all discovered this super new gizmo?  It is a bendable intense bright light that you attach to the top of your sewing machine!  You stick the base on the machine, and then insert the light mechanism into it.  You remove it when you pack up your machine, but it fits right back on when…