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Projects in the Works

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I am designing some quilt patterns for My Quilting Buddies online quilt guild. We have a jelly roll swap were we swap 10 strips per partner. I thought it would be great to have some FREE PATTERNS for people to use with these 2 1/2 inch strips. I have searched the internet for some free patterns and haven’t come across many. I am also going to create some quilt patterns using 5 inch charms from charm packs. We have a swap for this also. We swap 10 5 inch squares per partner.

Here is a scrappy friendship star quilt I am making a free pattern for.

Hopefully I will get some time soon to create the directions and put them in down loadable PDF format.

Happy Sewing.

2009: A Year End Review

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1. Silent Night Wall Hanging, 2. NC T-Shirt Quilt, 3. VA T-Shirt Quilt, 4. Baby Memory Quilt, 5. Table runner and Coasters, 6. Mini Art Quilt, 7. redartquilt, 8. T-Shirt Quilt, 9. DIChain1, 10. DSC07879, 11. Black and White Lap Quilt, 12. Halloween Table Mat, 13. Halloween Apron, 14. DSC07984copy, 15. Scrap Pile Fabric Postcard, 16. Kitties Mess Fabric Postcard, 17. DSC07970, 18. DSC07963, 19. Summertime Mini Quilt, 20. Spilt Nine Patch Baby Quilt, 21. Spring Blooms Mini Quilt, 22. Jean Purse, 23. Mountain Baby Blanket Quilt, 24. Pot Holder, 25. Pot Holder

Calorie Counting Receipt

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I found this on digg.com and thought I would share it. I wish all fast food places would do this. It would make counting calories so much easier.

Baby Clothes Memory Quilt

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Last week I mailed this crib sized memory quilt off to a customer in California. She sent me some squares of her son’s baby clothes. I free motion quilted the quilt with a medium meander stitch. I love it. It made me want to make some for my kids. Right now I am working on two twin sized t-shirt quilts for customers. I will be having some late nights. I am a very busy girl.

Easy Black and White Quilt Finished

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I made this lap quilt for Tim’s boss. She got married yesterday. It was a 1920′s themed wedding. It was a lot of fun. I left my camera in the car, so I didn’t get to take any pictures. The bridesmaids were all dressed in 20′s dresses. The groomsmen were dressed in Zoot suits. It was very unique. Something I am sure they will always remember. The guests were asked to dress up also. I found an outfit with a twenties flair and Tim bought a black pin striped suit. I did my hair in pin curls around the fr0nt and pulled the back into a low pony tail and tied a black velvet ribbon around it. I also wore a feather hair piece. I got a lot of compliments on my hair. People were surprised I did it myself. It wasn’t easy and took about an hour just to do the pin curls.

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Here is Andrew passed out in the car on the way home from Greg  and Mary’s.

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Sunflowers

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DSC04276copy2 (Small)I was playing around with a program called Gimp which is similar to Photo Shop but free. I use it to edit photos for the web page. I came up with these different looks by playing with the hue saturation.  There is so much you can do to a photo to get different looks. I think these would look great on note cards. The first picture is the original.

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My New Sewing Box

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Saturday my husband and I went to an estate sale in our neighborhood. As we walked from room to room looking for hidden treasures I came across a sewing box and an old singer sewing machine. The sewing box reminded me of the one my mother had in our house growing up. I opened it up and it was filled with all kinds of wonderful notions. Lace trim unopened from the 1970′s, unopened thread, buttons, and two paper measuring tapes. I was oohing and ahhing enough that Tim said he would buy it for me. I was so excited. Like a kid in the candy store.  I wish I had my camera to take a picture of the machine. If it had worked my husband was going to buy it for me.Isn’t he a doll.

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397th Post

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I’m getting closer to 400. I guess I am going to have to have a give away. Oh me what ever will I do??? LOL.