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wHaT!?
There it is, friends! Shocked is the only description I have for you. All I’d like to say– if you’ve ever wanted to enter a quilt show, you should– you’re good enough! I FORGOT MY PHONE, so I couldn’t even… Continue reading
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Pinch me…
I am having the summer of my life! A beautiful chapter has opened in a setting I never dreamed of, completely plot twisting the story of my life. It’s the dog days of July in the mountains of Maine, each… Continue reading
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A Good Effort
I’ve had another fabulous finish! “The Secret of Sugar Meadow” is show ready for Maine Quilts in Augusta, July 24-26th. Be there! My piped binding came out like a champ– many thanks to Susan Cleveland for her “Piping Hot Binding”… Continue reading
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Carefree Highways Tutorial
Most of my progress since returning to my belove Quiltopia has been on my Carefree Highways quilt– I have a November deadline to enter it into the brand new, New England AQS show which I already have hotel reservations for… Continue reading
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Situation 51
After 36 hours of flight delays, I’m back from the Moonbeams wedding in Charlotte, North Carolina! Thunderstorms were the problem, but misery loves company and at least our delays made a splash in the news. There were 1600 flight cancellations,… Continue reading
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Cuteness Overload
Sugar Meadow Pinks are here! Only my most diehard fans will remember me saying how I wanted to breed chickens this year. I imagined my Rhode Island Red rooster would mate with a white Brahma hen and the result would… Continue reading
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Happy Father’s Day!
Here I am, feeling a bit jet-lagged after a flight home last night from Atlanta– can you be jet-lagged if you never left your time zone? Yes, because after five minutes of trying to navigate the airport, I was jet-lagged… Continue reading
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Focusing on Everything…
“Focusing on Everything” has been our family motto and inside joke for the week– I hope you immediately recognized the tongue in cheek! Yes, we all have a lot going on and it’s all progressing, at one rate or another.… Continue reading
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All She Did Was Push a Button!
Congratulations to Hap Purcey in SW Florida who won a blue ribbon earlier this year with her gorgeous “Flowers of the Month” quilt! After hearing her machine embroidery work being compared to “just pushing a button” at an earlier show,… Continue reading
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She’s here!
I was determined to swing hard last week and I did… despite battling the knowledge that any moment, we would get a call to make a very special trip. Before that happened, most of my time was spent on the… Continue reading
One Stitch at a Time 
Sorry to hear it– that must have been an awful sight! They tried to tell me there are no animals…