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Best Meal of the Summer
This Pesto Corn Salad was, without a doubt, the best meal I have had all summer. If you love shrimp, basil, summery tomatoes and fresh corn with a perfect avocado you will agree with me. It could not have been easier. I made a simple pesto in the food processor, which involved me whirling a…
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More Halloween
All it took was Eva going back to school and some new Halloween patterns and I am back in the sewing room again. The little pattern above is by Margot Languedoc, whose company is The Pattern Basket. She is known for her wonderful designs that involve blocks that depict something-strawberries, acorns, pumpkins. If you want…
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Oh My Goodness. Going Batty.
Can you even? Is this not the cutest little Halloween block ever? Actually, it is two blocks from the Night Flight pattern by Basic Grey. The fabric is Hallo Harvest by Basic Grey. This was a $130 purchase I do not regret whatsoever. I am thinking I may not make the entire quilt, but make…
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Table Runners Off and Running
I got upstairs yesterday before it got hot and finished up the borders on my little gold half square triangle table runner. Now I am all set to mail this trio of toppers off to my quilter. I am really looking forward to getting these into my late summer/early fall decorating rotation. Decorating with small…
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Too Hot To Sew, Reading Instead
Ugh. It has been so hot here. Way too hot to go upstairs and sew. So, I have booted Ozzie out of my favorite chair and have been enjoying the most delicious book. I got this one at the library, as it is a newer release. The Summer Country by Lauren Willig. I have read…
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Fabric Bin Organization
Just a quick post to let you all know I am still alive. The weather cooled down to the high 80s over the weekend, so I took advantage of the cooler temps and went out to the garage to organize my fabric storage. We picked up some new bins at Walmart and I was able…
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Book Winner
Yes I really did buy two of the same book. Luckily my random number generator picked commenter number 17, Nancy Watkins, to take one of them off my hands! Congratulations Nancy. Send me an email with your address and I will get one of these in the mail to you right away! Thanks to everyone…
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Book Giveaway
I managed to purchase a book twice once again. I am a big Jo Morton fan and tend to buy anything she publishes. Apparently I was very keen to add this title to my library, but I think one copy will be enough for me. Each chapter focuses on a single classic quilt block, along…
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Late Summer Table Runners
I realized last week when I went to change out my red white and blue July decor for something more appropriate for late summer, that I am sorely lacking in table runners for this time of the year. For August and September I envision lots of yellow and gold; anything with sunflowers. I had started…
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Into the Wind, a Finish
My first finish in quite some time. This is Into the Wind, a Miss Rosie pattern. Fabric is Larkspur by 3 Sisters for Moda. I won't lie, this pattern was a challenge for me. I used one of my Flying Geese trim tools for the flying geese, so those were not the issue, although there…
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