Category: DD#1
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Back to a little sewing
It was nice to get back to a little sewing today, even if it was wedding related and not quilting. I’ve been working on DD#1’s wedding dress off and on over the past couple months. She wanted to wear my wedding dress from 1981. She has a much smaller waist than I did thirty-one years…
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Setting wedding goals
I’ll give you fair warning: this is all about wedding stuff. No quilting going on right now. For August, I decided to temporarily set my quiltmaking aside so we could focus on wedding plans. My goal is to try to get as many wedding preparations completed as I could by the end of August. I…
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Wedding invitations
I know I’ve frequently mentioned the upcoming wedding for DD#1. We’ve been busy planning, which is sort of scary when you realize that my two daughters and I are all over-achievers and love details. Add to that the fact that we all have a do-it-yourself mindset, it does get us into trouble from time to…
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Champaign Quilter’s Guild
Sweet hubby and I had a wonderful time this morning with the Champaign Quilter’s Guild in Urbana, Ohio. Thank you, everyone, for the warm welcome! I love doing trunk shows. I encourage people to ask questions when they think of them, even if I’m in the middle of my presentation. I love to create a…
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Disassembling FMIL’s dress
I started disassembling DD#1’s future mother-in-law’s (FMIL, for short) dress today. She had such a beautiful dress, and I am so thrilled she wanted us to include portions of it. I want to make the very best use of it with as little waste as possible, so I started by removing the lace at the…
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Next project: wedding dress
Now that I’ve finished my Nancy Crow classes and the six workshops I taught at the NQA show, I have time to breathe. I think the next major project on my horizon is altering a wedding dress. As I’ve mentioned before, DD#1 is getting married. She wants a vintage feel for the wedding. We’ll be…
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Winners from the 2012 MVQG show
The Miami Valley Quilters’ Guild met last night, and they announced the winners from last weekend’s show. Our guild doesn’t use a panel of judges to pick the winners. Instead, each person that comes to the show is given a ballot as they enter, and they get to vote on their favorite quilt in each…
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Deal of the Day
I’m so excited about my great deal, I just had to share about it!!! I met another one of my deadlines, and just have one more to do this week, so I decided to reward myself by going to our favorite thrift store. This is the place that sells stuff by the pound. I headed…
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Gathering wedding stuff
I’ve felt so privileged to be able to divide my attention between my sweet hubby and my two daughters during these past few weeks. Sweet hubby is recovering at an amazing speed. DD#2 has just finished her first trimester, but she is still exhausted most of the time. In the midst of doctor appointments, we’ve…
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Surreal times
The last three weeks have been rather surreal for our family. First, we rejoiced with DD#1 when she got engaged. Four days later we rallied around my husband when he experienced his stroke, and we continue to help him as he works toward recovery. Five days after the stroke, before DH was even out of…