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Pam RuBert explains how I feel

Pam RuBert is one of my very favorite quilt artists/illustrators ever and so with a nasty cold this morning, I immediately thought of this: I remember when she came out with this I LAUGHED! She’s so talented. A wonderful inspiration! Today I’m on my way over to the Crazy Quilt

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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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Rocky Mountain Crazy Quilters

Well, my Colorado Crazy quilters online Yahoo group is in the middle of starting a guild. I’m working on some bookmarks and flyers we’re going to put around the state to see if we can build our numbers. I”m excited about the group….should be a lot of fun!

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Story of a Crazy quilt

I ran across this Story of a Crazy quilt – a really neat story about an actress, EJ Phillips who stitched a crazy quilt out of scraps from costumes of the many plays she was in. The quilt was finally finished in 1930 by the great granddaughter who is able

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Crazy Quilt Web-Ring

The Crazy Quilt Web-Ring is a fantastic way to surf around to the best Crazy Quilt sites….I’ve found a lot of my favorites on this ring!

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Crazy Quilt care

I ran across this site with information on caring for crazy quilts: The Alliance For American Quilts Quilt Query -Treating a Crazy Quilt with Worn Areas and Shattered Silks (under restoration) . If you have a lovely old crazy quilt…this is definitely worth reading first!

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Take an On-line Class In Crazy Quilting

Well, I’m working on a heap of different projects today. One is a secret, but kind of fun and involves photo transfers (which I’m wrestling a bit with right now) – one of my more creative feats tho (pictues and description to come later). I’m also working on my fairy

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What a wonderful cool morning! Rex (DH) got up ultra early this morning thinking he had an early AM meeting…when he finally got ready he realized it was tomorrow! LOL! Poor guy! The good news is I”m a morning person and the kids slept in, so it was nice and

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I Hate Laundry, but I LOVE weekends!

So, had a fantastic weekend, and now I seem to be paying for it…WAY behind on preschool stuff, and having to rush and get the house in order. I HATE LAUNDRY….maybe that’s what I should have named my blog.Anyway, had a great weekend, a group of us from the crazy

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Working on my grandmother’s crazy quilt

So, Sharon B, from A Minute Ago said that what caught her eye in my blog is my restoration of my Grandmother’s Crazy Quilt. There’s quite a story behind all of that. My grandmother made it for her sister years ago…however, not nearly as long ago as I originally thought….when

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