Author: Mary-Frances

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More on buttons – gotta love em!!

So, I’m working on my needlecase and rooting through Grandma’s button box again. Plus, I have so cool, hip ones that I’ve been given in swaps and purchased at some craft fairs…I do really really like buttons. This is another cool site (with the exception that a box keeps popping

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David Walker – Artist and Teacher

I was surfing a bit today and came across this site: David Walker – Artist and Teacher. There are some spectacular art quilts and I really like the “meditations” and “diversions” sections…..good stuff there!

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Photo organization and another stitch dictionary

So, for all of you who are “experienced crazy quilt” web surfers, you may already know Rissa’s Pieces Stitch Dictionary . Cute name and a great site. In addition to Sharon B’s stitch dictionary (see my sidebar), I can’t imagine you’d need much more! I’m currently surfing for more stitches

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Monday morning

Well, woke up at 2:30am and couldn’t get back to sleep. Big sigh. No idea why I’ve been getting insomnia lately. It’s irritating. Anyway, I haven’t posted any pictures of my other hobby (ha, ha!!) my kids, so here’s Matey Moo and Missy C, actually kind of an old picture

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All Consuming

Totally off topic, but worth mentioning is All Consuming. This is a website that is dedicated to searching weblogs for any books they have mentioned that link to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. Actually a pretty cool service I guess if you’re a complete bibliophile. It seems to be a

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A moment of fame, with the family all in bed sick

Ok, so I was wrestling with whether or not to even post this on the weblog, but I figure, what the heck…not like they don’t expect it! 😉 Yesterday I had the pleasure of being interviewed by one of our local TV news stations about Blogs….little did I know that

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So, if you’ve read my old posts, you may remember that I was absolutely determined to start a new project AND finish it! So, I found this: crazy patchwork lesson – Needle and Bead book by Annie Whitsed . Well, here it is, pieced and about 1/2 embellished: A couple

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The Mary Frances Sewing Book

After living 37 years of my life with the old fashioned name Mary-Frances, trust me, it catches my eye when I see the name in print. I was reading an email from one of my listserves and it mentioned a store in Berkeley, CA. My brother went there to law

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Sewing Rooms

So, my sewing area is a small part of my spare bedroom. I’ve been working on it, but frankly it’s pretty lame. I ran across this on a group I’m on: Sewing Rooms. WOW! Pretty amazing stuff! One of the gals in our crazy quilting group has a pretty awesome

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Finishing projects and my new project!

So, I’ve gotten obsessive about finishing things! I’m finishing a project for my mother’s bday…a few of you may have seen pics, but not available here until its’ finished. However, it’s finally coming along. I think this is going to be my next project: crazy patchwork lesson – Needle and

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