O'Quilts

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

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  Thank you Terri for sending this repeat.  Quilting to Irish music....OMG how much better can it get?   Quilt, by Gayle Thomas....video
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Getting in the season...

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My sewing room was oh, so clean...so I decided to start a project for the Guild holiday party..and now the clean room is????   You know........
Sunday, October 30, 2011

Back in the saddle

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These are the November blocks for the guild....one for them and one for me. It was supposed to be a house block, but I have never been much ...
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Saturday, October 29, 2011

A new day rising and relaxation with a UFO..

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My mind is unable to create at this time, it is befuddled and exhausted.  But, I am back at the machine beginning piecing several boy baby q...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Delightful

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Delightful It's three o'clock in the morning Still I am baffled by words Reaching into delicate darkness Finding an elusive phr...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Adios

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Adios So long friends I'm on my way Almost ready For that fateful day No suitcase No dollar bills Nothing needed Beyond these h...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Collision

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Collision Wailing of the sirens calling after me I can hear them screaming              'EMERGENCY!" Ageless, weightless, spirit,...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Happiness is....finishing the last UFO top

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I almost let this go.  I almost just said to put it on the back burner...again ...and start something new...but the light bulb turned on and...
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Bibs and budding quilters

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This is the last of the recent unfinished tops. I thought that my grandchildren would have the answer for me so I could get it done and star...
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Friday, October 14, 2011

Mona's meatloaf

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My grandmother was a gourmet cook..it became her profession when she came to America from Sweden at age 15.  Since she always lived with us,...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

And then there was the moving sale at Andy's house

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  Andy  has to sell her house of 30 some years and move on to a new adventure.  New adventures are sometimes scary, but beautiful and talent...

Fabric.com and the magic cure!

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When my mother was in the hospital, I was stressed to the max.  One of the nights when I was finally home, I wanted to cry, I was sooo tired...

UFO Christmas kittie/angel top done

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I recently read that "value does the work but color gets the credit".  That is a wonderful saying.  In this top, I think that I co...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Hourglass backing done..moving on

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There is nothing brilliant about this backing except that it is done.  I have had this yellow batik forever.  I think it was on sale becaus...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Hourglass top and shot cotton:)

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When I have decided to finish up UFO's I often feel cheated that I cannot start something new.  I am a baby like that...Under stress, it...
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Saturday, October 8, 2011

A brand new day

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OMG I think I am going to be dead before my mother is....All night long I waited for the call from the hospital in a fitful sleep.  This mor...
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Friday, October 7, 2011

And sew away the stress....

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I sat all day in the hospital watching my mother sleep and struggle.  What happens to a stage 4 Parkingson's patient when they have not ...
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Thursday, October 6, 2011

The gift and the gifted

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The best gift of all was today from the spine surgeon...Yesterday, the big fall, the ambulance, the ER doctor, the hospitalist, the X-rays a...
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I hate Parkinson's disease....AGAIN...or still...

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My mother fell out of her wheelchair tonight while at the computer writing a poem when she was supposed to have gone to bed.  Unfortunately ...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Charlotte's quilting guilds

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  I love my Charlotte quilting guilds...... http://charlottemodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/    and www.charlottequiltersguild.org/   I am so ...
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I have been quilting since 1973. Thank you grandma for teaching me how to sew...you have saved my life so many times:) I was born in Boston, raised in Arizona, lived 1 year in France, 2 years in England, 2 years in NYC, 2 years in LA, 20 years in Miami, Florida and now living for in Charlotte, North Carolina since 1994. Diane
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