Tag: quilting

  • What I’m up to this week.

    What I’m up to this week.

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      Making a Modern Maples quilt with Maisie!     Cross Stitching my Frosted Pumpkin Autumn sampler. Crocheted 70 lime green and grey birds for a friend’s wedding.     Discovered how trendy Maisie looks in scarves.     Ran my first 5k with my sister, sister-in-law and her mom.     Held my 4…

  • weekend.

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    praise the good Lord,  i felt so much better this weekend!!!  i am really so very thankful.  i spent all last night and almost all of today in the sewing room.  i also had a helper much of the day … the house isn’t a wreck,  i sewed,  i slept in …  i am getting…

  • Block #1.

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    Well, my first Farmer’s Wife block has been completed! Only 110 to go! :p I decided to scrap (haha … Little quilter’s humor there!!) the idea of using solids … because I just wasn’t feeling it. Not sure why. Maybe I felt it would be too busy?? Anyway, I have a nice stack of Love…

  • Oh to be a Farmer’s Wife.

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    So! I seem to blog a lot about some people make a crafty, arty lifestyle look so effortless. So second nature to them. Me, on the other hand? Not so much. I seem to have a modicum of skill … But then I have to work HARD at everything else. And that’s cool! I’m not…

  • practice, practice, practice.

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      so i forget a lot of times that the adage “practice makes perfect” is actually quite true.  it’s probably why i didn’t stick with many activities when i was younger.  if i wasn’t good at it right off the bat, i figured it wasn’t my thing and moved on.  yeah, practice could make you…