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Before we get started, I want to let you know about special sale. Impression Obsession has fabulous stamps for cardmaking and scrapbooking and they are having a flash sale until tomorrow!! Get 25% off with promo code FLASH, just click on my affiliate link. Moving on to sewing today, the final two blocks in our …
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Rainy days, and a lack of inspiration in the quilting area has left me reading more this past month. I've devoured several good books and thought you'd like to talk about reading today. Don't miss my giveaway note later in the post! Here's what I have finished within the past few weeks. Click on the …
These days it can be a bit of a struggle to keep our spirits up. Days run into days, and I cannot keep straight if it is Monday or Thursday, LOL! Seems my quilting mojo has gone on coronacation, and it is difficult to figure out what to do. I can waste hours going down …
This quilt repair was certainly a different sort of challenge. When the owner sent a picture, I was puzzled as to why a section was just missing, with the binding still intact. He said that he had taken it to someone for repair, and she cut out the section that was bad. Then she didn't …
Recently I've been looking for more recipes that would take vegetables to main dish status. I had this idea after spending some time looking at cookbooks, searching for something that would use cauliflower. While none of the recipes used corn, one had a sour cream base, but had a lot of peppers which I didn't …
It is hard to wrap my head around the fact that it is the middle of June, although it is certainly getting hot enough. I am not a fan of summer heat, although I do like the cool mornings and evenings we usually have. June is the month the fireflies usually come out, and we …
We are not yet back to doing Quilt of Valor presentations, but the construction of quilts goes on. At some point, we'll need a closet full to cover the backlog of veterans in line for a Quilt of Valor. So, we continue to sew, piece and quilt, in i-sew-lation. This one was pieced by Didi …
For several years now, I have been bemoaning the lack of flowers on my ten-year-old orchid. A year ago, we went to the NC Arboretum's Orchid Show, and again I tried to figure out why mine wasn't cooperating. I repotted it, babied it, gave it lots of humidity, took every suggestion, and still nothing. Then, …
There has been a lot of this and that in the sewing room lately. Small projects quickly finished, secret sewing done, and no big project on the horizon. Seems like it is just kind of quiet. So, I took a look around this past weekend, and tried to decide on some projects to begin. First …
Early summer is a great time to go hiking. The weather is not too hot yet, and the trails are full of flowers. We like going to the NC Arboretum property, as it has a number of trails, and none are very strenuous. Recently, the Arboretum opened up a few trails again after weeks of …
