Author: Mary-Frances

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Pat Winter has a blog!

I’m going to sound like a fan (read weird fanatic)…and I probably am, but Pat Winter was in an online group with me a while ago and I developed a real appreciation for her stuff. So, I was happily managing my “bloggers who embellish” webring I got an email from

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Check out these Quilts….continued!

Check out these Quilts….continued!

Here’s more eye candy from that fantastic crazy quilt I got to see and photograph. I think the work on it is fascinating. The owners are on vacation, but I’ll try to furnish more fascinating statistics when they get back.Note and update: I have deleted my erroneous date “guess” (see

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Cars back in service, too hot to stitch

Cars back in service, too hot to stitch

Well thankfully all of my car woes are over – for those of you who didn’t know, all of our cars went belly up in the heat and so we were carless, then not carless then broken down and walking with two kids home at 10pm. All is well tho,

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Happy Birthday to my BLOG!

Happy Birthday to my BLOG!

So, I have been keeping this blog for a year. I’ve worked on projects, bored you all with stories of my kids and home life and all sorts of things. My audience seems to range from my family (Rex’s parents and my parents primarily – who now miss it if

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A surprisingly lovely weekend!

A surprisingly lovely weekend!

What started as an icky weekend…(we had car trouble on Friday) ended up really nice. We thought we’d stop and see some friends while taking the car to be worked on (we take it to the next town because we have a trusted mechanic….can you believe there is such a

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Class on ciggie silks and new family haircuts!

Class on ciggie silks and new family haircuts!

I wanted to share some pictures of the from our Rocky Mountain Crazy Quilters class today about ciggies silks. Holly has a HUGE collection (I’m not sure what Holly doesn’t have a huge collection of) and so was willing to share them as well as a bit of history. For

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Modern Quilt-Along

Dioramarama is starting a modern quilt along…she even got a comment on her blog from the authors of the book she’s using (neat eh?)…so go check it out! I refuse to start ONE MORE PROJECT! I’m working in my new studio right now and I think the next thing is

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Surfing the Bloggers Who Embellish ring

Well, not to pat myself on the back, but the bloggers who embellish ring has grown to be quite a nice list. I’ve been trying to go through and maintain it a bit today. My apologies for still not putting up a tutorial on how to add the code page.

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Better pictures of my new space

Better pictures of my new space

Here is the room as you walk in the door. I’m actually folding laundry in here now – it isn’t so dark and dingy and it’s kind of nice to stand in there….great area, eh?Then this is my old file cabinet full of fabrics (all organized by color in ziplock

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Very brief update on the sewing room!

Very brief update on the sewing room!

Here are a couple of very quick pictures of the empty finished room (it doesn’t look ANYTHING like this anymore!This is truly quicky pics! I’ll have more pictures of the “finished space” tomorrow! 🙂

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