This morning flew by. I got a lot more then I thought was possible done on the quilt. In order, we have step 4: arrange squares, step 5: sew them all together, and step 6: make the quilt sandwich. At that point, I decided to tie the quilt rather than quilt it, because I have […]
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Today’s reward for working my butt off all morning on the quilt was a walk around Mackworth Island. I managed to reverse my all low tide all the time trend for this year, and arrived at high tide (and a high high tide at that). I’ve decided I actually like the island better at high
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I did all the set up work to get the squares for Blueberry’s quilt today. I love this pattern, because it’s basically: 1. Cut a bunch of strips. 2. Sew a bunch together and do a bit more cutting. 3. Sew everything that’s left together. I’m now ready for step 4, which is arrange everything
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I was in South Portland yesterday for a haircut, so decided to head over to Fort Williams in Cape Elizabeth when I was done, since I haven’t been there in ages. Fort Williams is on Shore Road in Cape E. If you’re not from the area, I will only add that Cape E is one
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I really wanted to make Blueberry’s quilt from some of the flannels in my stash, but I need six different colors for the quilt top, and I wasn’t able to pull off any combinations in my stash. So I took a trip to Joann’s yesterday (it’s rather pathetically true that that largest city in Maine
Read for the YA Reading Challenge. Touchmark is a charming YA novel set in Revolutionary War-era Boston. Nabby Jonas is an orphan, and is taken in by the family of a pewterer, not as an apprentice, as she’d like, but as a companion to the crippled daughter Emily. Gradually, Nabby is able to learn the
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I’m on vacation for the next week! Hurray! (I feel like I have an absolute surfeit of vacation this year, but it’s really just the result of taking absolutely no time off from January through May, while I had a project at work, and then having to make sure I take all but the 40
Read for the YA and RIP III Reading Challenges. Blood and Chocolate is the story of Vivian, a teenage werewolf. Her pack was recently forced to flee their home in West Virginia after a fire that caused the death of the pack leader (her father). They’ve moved to the suburbs in Maryland, and both she
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I’ve finished up another reading challenge! I definitely have to thank Lenneth over at Foxy Writer for hosting this one. I’m already a big fantasy fan, but this incorporated a few authors I’d not read before, and it was a great experience to do so. I ended up reading the following: It was a great
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Read for the Mythopoeic Award and TBR 2008 Reading Challenges. I should start this by noting that with the combination of L going back to school, and Sigerson’s recent post on LJ about the classes she’s taking this fall, I was feeling rather wistful about my college days. And then I read Tam Lin, and
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