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Craft Notes

I was in a bit of cleaning mood last night, so decided to take a tour through my UFO drawer and the spillover on the top of the set of drawers holding the UFO drawer. In the grand scheme of things, I’m actually not that bad off, but the pile is still a little sobering. […]

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postage stamp celestial quilt

Quilting Notes

I finished the top of my celestial postage stamp quilt. Hurray! I think I’ve only been sitting on this since 2002. It’s definitely been a lesson in humility re-cutting all the squares and sewing half of the quilt back together. It still didn’t come together quite perfectly, but will make a perfectly good throw for

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celestial postage stamp quilt

Quilting Notes

Though most of my weekend was a dismal failure due to the heat, I did at least manage to get more than half of my celestial postage stamp quilt sewn together before having my bobbin run out completely derailed my progress. (For some reason, this almost always involves seam ripping, and that makes me grumpy.)

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Quilting Notes

I need a new chair for sewing. I set my machine up at the dining room table. That in and of itself isn’t bad. The table’s actually a fine height for sewing. It’s the dang dining room chairs that are killing me (and we’ve even gotten new chairs that are far more comfortable than the

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More July notes

Due to the excessive rain today (I’d wanted to get some gardening done before departing for my vacation on Wednesday), I managed to get the rest of the squares evened out in my celestial postage stamp quilt. I toyed with the idea of at least getting strips together, but the near dusk-like quality of the

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Hurrah!

A mere two weeks and two days later, I finally regained the full use of my computer, just in time to be going on vacation next Wednesday! Ah well. Hopefully, I’ll still have the time to catch up on some of the posts I’d wanted to do. At the very least, last night after only

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Early July Notes

Well, I’m mildly ashamed that this is my first post for the month of July, but not only is my computer still unformatted, but I’ve had to take some time to deal with the conclusion of my grandmother’s fight with ALS. I’ve come by my crafting skills from Grammie. In her later years, she made

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