Category: Blue things
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Cosmic Jewels quilt top is complete!
I finished piecing together the blocks for the Cosmic Jewels quilt. (Its new name is “Sapphire Star.”) I did end up changing that one fabric that was bothering me along the right hand side. I decided to leave everything else as originally designed. Next I’ll start digging around for some batting to use up. Since…
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Give away: winner of Cosmic Jewels pattern
I pinned my work in progress to my “design wall” which is actually just a piece of styrofoam covered with black fabric. I mostly use it when I take photos of my quilts, so it is not permanently mounted anywhere. That way I can move it around to wherever the light is best. Anyway, Saturday…
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Give away: pattern and Debbie Maddy workshop
Tuesday and Wednesday my guild had Debbie Maddy do two workshops and a trunk show. She brought seven suitcases full of quilts! Wow! I suspect every quilt I’ve ever made could have fit in juast one of those suitcases. Most of her patterns use her method for making diamonds with no “Y” seams. This lets…
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Anniversary presents
In June we celebrated our 30th anniversary. Supposedly, 30th wedding anniversary gifts should be pearls or diamonds. Well, I’m really not interested in either of those. Instead, we decided to use some money my dad gave us, along with some savings, to purchase our first ever, brand-new couch! Yes, we’ve been married 30 years and…
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Great buys
I forgot to mention my Great Buy of the Week! On Tuesday, my quilt guild had their annual auction/garage sale. Everything is divided into lots. Typically a book or stack of magazines is paired with 5 or so yards of fabric. For $1, you buy the right to play. Then, anytime something you are interested…
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Iridescent blue sandals
I’m so tired of my boring brown Birkenstocks. I bought them in 2007, so I was ready for something new, but these are still in pretty good condition and I wasn’t too fond of the blue ones that are currently available. (Yes, of course they need to be blue!) I remember reading somewhere that Shiva…
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Fallingwater and Quill Haven B&B
On Sunday afternoon, we hit the road and headed east. I am scheduled to lecture and teach in Maryland on Wednesday and Thursday, so we decided to start the trip with a couple days R&R. We are celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary next month, so we decided to start early. A short stay at a…
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Favorite tools: crockpot
I realized I forgot to mention one of my favorite quilt tools: my crockpot! I’ve had a nice little three quart, blue crockpot for more than ten years, which I use all the time to make wonderful homemade yogurt, but I’ve been wanting a larger one. I’ve been casually looking online when I think of…
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Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Hope your turkey was yummy 🙂 We had several friends over to share our meal. We ended up with ten people in all. Our dining room isn’t quite that big, so we re-arranged the house and moved the dining room table into the living room, and we moved the chairs from…
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Ikea Hack
Today we worked some more on those Ikea shelves that I painted earlier this week. I used Mod Podge to glue fabric to the front of the drawers and then sealed it with another layer of Mod Podge. Don’t you just love that fabric? For the first four drawers I used some of that luscious…