Author: Mary-Frances

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New, quick projects – good for a color study?

Missy C and I bought these kits a while ago at the Sewing Festival, they’re fun, quick projects.  They look like quilt blocks, but are in face just foam boards where you poke the fabric in around the edges (and use glue on the sides and back) to create a

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Perfect Moment Monday – the Giving Week

Perfect Moment Monday – the Giving Week

This week, was all about giving, I didn’t even realize it until I looked back at what had happened over the week. On Thursday we had “family haircuts” – my hubby had gotten his haircut the month before and just made a group haircut appointment for the rest of us!

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Stitching in public

Every other week I meet with a group of crafty stitchers at Panera bread – the group started as an extension of my Crazy quilting group. We get together, several of us order dinner, at least one only gets a drink, there are desserts (we moved from a Starbucks because

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Day 12: Something I’m OCD About

Ok, this is going to seem really really “out of the blue” – however, back in November, I had decided to do a meme about 30 days of me and I got through exactly 11 of them! ha ha. Either I don’t like structure (this is my bet) or I

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Warm hearts, warm babies

A lot of the seamstresses and quilters and crafters I know have too much stash – if you’re like me, you collected cute adorable fabrics when your kids were little that look positively silly now. My daughter is totally over princesses and yet, I still have some in my studio.

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Life from Scratch – a book tour

  I am thrilled to be on a tour for “Life from Scratch” by blogger Melissa Ford (Stirrup Queens). My first confession, is that I’ve only NOW subscribed to Melissa’s blog and frankly when I read the story I thought it was pretty much another “Julie & Julia” redo. Not

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I should just admit….I’m an addict

Sigh. I just realized I have a problem. I know, all of you will laugh because those of you who are on Facebook or who follow me Twitter-wise or whatever, probably know this, but I have a blog problem. I know, it’s not news. However, I may have just reached

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A quick and easy project

Another thing I did – weekend after last, was attend an exhibit at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. We’re so lucky to have this fabulous resource in Colorado! They have recently moved spaces (down the street) and the space is smaller, but more compact – and probably easier for volunteers.

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Crafty weekends – a series of posts!

Note ** I have had so much going on, that I’m WAY behind on my posts, this is a post, I started two weekends ago – eek! Since then I’ve done a ton more, so the next few days will be post heavy! (brace yourselves, ha ha)** So, the first

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

These are some hearts I’ve made through the years for “Milagros del Corazon” a fundraiser to benefit the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council here in Denver. Have a fabulous Holiday everyone! Love each other!

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