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Stitch night! Woot!

I finally figured out how to “live blog” from my phone and stitch night seemed great! I’m working on my sheep: The other gals are working away on their projects: The best part is the chatting!!

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Sandra Dallas – a kindred spirit?

I was catching up on some blog reading today and came across this post about “women’s art”  by Sandra Dallas:   I love quilts.  I appreciate the artistry and workmanship and the fact they are women’s art.  But mostly, I love finding the secrets they tell. But I also love

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Beginning lace class

Wow, I am SO behind. However, this is a look at the beginning lace class I took a few weeks ago. The good news is that the teacher is following up with another class, so maybe my next piece won’t look so bad! ha h First, I want to thank

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Cute (but pricey) embroidered high fashion purses

I’m not sure how many of you watch fashion/tv blogs, but TLo (formerly Project Rungay) just posted this cute cute purse that Tilda Swinton was carrying. There are more over on Olympia Le-Tan’s online shop and they are fabulous – reproductions in embroidery of some fabulous book covers. However, hold

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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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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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Some awesome auctions

As a break from the chaos of Christmas planning and IEP meetings for our son – a little stitching (grin) – I thought I’d take a break and point out two fabulous bits of eye candy or maybe gifties? The Alliance for American Quilts had a “new from old” contest

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Back to Crazy!

Oh my! HUGE news in the CQ world today – check out this FABULOUS  Crazy Quilt (not mine, but it’s a HUGE inspiration – isn’t it?) What’s more fabulous? It just sold for $70,000!! Woo hoo! Validation for anyone who does hand work – there are people out there who

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