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Hartman
Today's post is a tribute to a lovely man I knew decades ago when I was a young woman. Many years ago I worked at a major university which was trying to attract minority students to achieve more diversity in its graduate programs. I was a lowly administrative assistant in the Department of Graduate Studies,…
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Rockin’ Around the House
Hope you all had a splendid Mother's Day, if it is a day you celebrate. Here I am, enjoying one of my Mother's Day presents–new rocking chairs for my front porch! And of course, there is Ozzie, plaguing me while I am trying to enjoy my book. We have a super long front porch, and…
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Binding
Every week on my To Do/Planner I write "Bindings" in an effort to complete the massive pile of bindings that I need to sew onto my finished quilts. I just do not enjoy sewing bindings. I know, lots of people love doing it. Well, I wish they would come sit on my porch with me…
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Cheerful Rocks
Before I tell you about our cheerful rocks, I'd like to share my latest Moda BlockHeads block, #17, by Betsy Chutchian. She calls it Crossroads. I changed it up a little ( of course I did) and am very happy with the play of red and white prints. I made my block 8 1/2". There…
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No Words
My son in law's stepdaughter is a college graduate this month. Of course her graduation was canceled due to COVID-19 concerns, so the family decided to host a special celebration in her honor regardless. There she is, in her back yard, watching an old Steven Spielberg Commencement address on her stepdad's lap-top before the special…
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If At First You Don’t Succeed…
The stars must not be aligned properly. I'll tell you this block took me a couple of tries. Every possible piece I could have turned wrong, I did. Repeatedly. I finally had re-sewn the block so many times it was all floppy and covered with little thread bits. I was ready to throw in the…
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Scrap Quilt
Greetings fellow shut-ins. Hope you all had a good weekend. We cleaned the house from top to bottom, spent a lot of time on the front porch, planted some summer annuals, and got in a wee bit of sewing. I tidied the sewing room as part of the cleaning effort, and somehow the project box…
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Typepad Issues
Typepad (the company through which I publish this blog) is having some major problems the past couple of days. My posts are not publishing at the set time, and I am not receiving your comments. Comments are being published on the blog itself so I can see them, but not respond directly to you. I…
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Moda BlockHeads #16
This is Moda BlockHeads block #16: "Dream". I made it the 4 inch size which upped the challenge a bit for me. It's fine. I need twelve 4" blocks, so this works. This is my collection of 4" blocks so far. Sorry yesterday's post went up so late. I had it set to post at…
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Books of April
This is my TBR (To Be Read) bookshelf. Plenty there to keep me occupied. But as it turned out April was one of my worst reading months in a very long time. Usually, I can breeze through at least two books a week, but I barely finished four books all month. For some reason, my…
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