This weekend is the North Carolina Apple Festival, the biggest event of the year for the small town of Hendersonville. We go most years, and I have posted about the event before. See the posts on Apple Festival 2014 and Apple Festival 2015 to see the apple vendors, entertainment, and all the apple products we …
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Celebrate National Sewing Month – Sewing Fiction
September is National Sewing Month, and this year I am going to take a different approach to the celebration. Oh, not to worry, there will still be plenty of sewing this month, projects and quilts, but this time I am going to do several book reviews for fiction with a sewing or quilting theme. When …
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Longarm Quilting – Fixing a Border
Only one time have I done this type of fix. Removing a border on a quilt almost quilted was the only way to fix this one. The amount of excess fabric in the inner border was staggering. I knew as I was quilting it that it had some fullness. But the top wasn't too bad, …
Clearing Out
Detritus - the pieces that are left after something breaks or falls apart, what is leftover as a remnant, worthless material to be disposed of. Having more time on my hands than usual, I decided to tackle cleaning out a closet in the office. This is something that has been sorely needed for literally years. …
Quick Italian Dinner
This is one of those go-to recipes that I make a lot. It takes a minimum of effort, is ready in a hurry and tastes wonderful. I cannot tell you how often I make this on a weeknight after a long day at work. DH is always happy to have Italian food on his plate, …
French Cottage Quilt
A generous donation was made to our local quilt group of a number of kits from a collection called French Cottage. Each kit made one block. Our program chair brought them to a meeting, and asked for volunteers to make the blocks. I think there were a couple of dozen block kits, and I took …
An Unusual Exhibit at the North Carolina Arboretum
We are fortunate in this area to be blessed with not only the Blue Ridge Parkway, and gorgeous mountains, but the North Carolina Arboretum just next to the parkway. It is less than a half hour away, so DH and I drove over to it over the weekend to see a most unusual exhibit. I …
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Slow Stitching a Quick Project
Remember this little cross stitch Christmas tree that I showed you during Christmas in July? It is one of several designs in a kit. The problem I have at this point is I don't want to make it the way the pattern says. It calls for the stitched piece to be cut out in a …
Garden Windows – Quilting the High Contrast Version
Quilting the high contrast version of my Moda Bake Shop design Garden Windows took forever. Or at least it seemed like it. I started by adding the borders, and then loading on the longarm. I stabilized it first by quilting in the ditch around the borders. I did a full custom job on it, each …
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Moda Bake Shop – A New Recipe
I am excited to announce my latest design for Moda Bake Shop, that published on the Moda Bake Shop site late yesterday afternoon. This is the third design that the Moda Bake Shop has accepted. The fabrics are called Fern Hill designed by Jan Patek. The colors are similar values making a low volume quilt. …
