Tag: quilts
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diary of a cranky quilter.
i read a lot of blogs. i glean a lot of inspiration … and there is just something neat about reading how other people live their lives. a little voyeuristic, yes, but … isn’t that why we blog? some of the blogs are REAL. they show everything, warts and all. they don’t just blog the…
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rainy work-in-progress wednesday!
it was a cool rainy wednesday today. we’ve had a lot of rain as of late … and i do miss sunshine and outside time … but boy there is nothing i like more than sewing the afternoon away and listening to the rain against the house and trees. so … i may be the…
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my quiet place.
When i was younger, my family would take vacations to Lancaster, PA. There was a period of time where we went each year for like 5 or 6 years straight. Before and after that period, it was a bit more sporadically. But we had been there so many times, by the time I knew…
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you want pictures? i’ll give you pictures!
Hello! It’s a partly sunny 80 degrees here in our fair neck of the woods … and i have a cold! Haha. But, I don’t really want to be sick right now … so I plan to dope myself up with cold medicine and pretend it isn’t happening! :) That’ll work, right??? But I am…
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busy bee.
Busy weekend! I had my cousin’s baby shower, visiting with my godmother who was visiting from Florida, an unexpected shift I had to take at work, a wake for my sister-in-law’s uncle and dinner with my Dad’s family to celebrate Christmas. I came home last night and collapsed! Aside from the wake, it was all…
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for the love of fabric.
I vividly remember my first trip to Lancaster, PA with my family. I walked through store after store of Amish treasures – colorful quilts, pillows, wall hangings and other fabric crafts. I was first attracted to the colors and styles. But then, when I really LOOKED at a quilt or pillow, I thought to myself,…