crafts
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All the Fall Feels…
Welcome to the first day of fall on Sugar Meadow, where the current fall feeling is… GLUM! Here is a sad picture to express myself– my poor, molting rooster with one last tail feather to show for himself. I know… Continue reading
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A Star is Born!
Carefree Highways is a pieced top! After all of the moaning last time (thank you for your patience), I had a really wonderful week! Both top and bottom ribbons were appliqued onto the borders, and all four borders got sewn… Continue reading
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Yes, we can! (get sick of sewing)
It’s been a much quieter week here on the Meadow, thank goodness! August has passed us by and it’s now fall. We have delicious temperatures in the mid 70s for the next two weeks– but still not a lot of… Continue reading
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Meet Me at the Fair!
Just when things seemed desperate, the trials of August have let up a bit. We may have a happy ending after all. Lots of progress on Carefree Highways this week, and I am going to need every minute to finish… Continue reading
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August Goes South
August is a month that frequently goes south on me– there’s been too much ice cream, too many sunburns, too much hilarity and all of a sudden I find myself sin dipped in misery. Meanwhile, the summer’s running out and… Continue reading
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Two new starts!
Two weeks worth of quilty progress to show you today– and I started two new things! (sigh) Let’s get right into it. Fat Quarter Shop’s yearly FREE Christmas stitch-a-long started in July and I was resisting perfectly. But they had… Continue reading
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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
One Stitch at a Time 