Last Friday, my tired old late ’60s smokers’ delight kitchen was demoed to make room for a cleaner smelling, updated kitchen. (Hooray!) Happily, amidst the stress of keeping kids out of the way and actually using the dining room for eating instead of sewing (boo!), I’ve been able to do some hand sewing. And hand sewing is a much needed…
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WIP Wednesday: Kitchen Demo
Fabric Stash: Florence by Denyse Schmidt
The Houston Modern Quilt Guild gets to participate in a challenge from Denyse Schmidt. Super squeeee! Denyse (DS) sent our guild several fat eighth bundles of her new line Florence. Basically, we have to (get to!) make something from our bundle by July 15th. You can watch and see what people create in the Flickr pool. Florence will make her…
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WIP Wednesday {History Lesson}
While not a work-in-progress in the traditional sewing sense, a history lesson is in order for me this week. I had it in my mind to share a family heirloom with you this week. Earlier this week I lovingly took this quilt out and labored to make her comfortable while I made her picture. This morning I sat down to…
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Little things, a catch up
Hi there! Today, I’m sharing some little projects completed over the past month or so. These are the types of projects I share right away on Instagram with the intention of taking proper pictures later. But these things were meant to be loved and have appropriately been squirreled away by myriad girls. (I guess I need a boy project!) While…
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WIP Wednesday {Quiet Work}
After the torrent of tutorial writing last week, this week calls for a bit more quiet time work. Also, I wanted an English Paper Piecing (EPP) project to fill my tote. I had this idea in my head of wanting to work on an eight-pointed star. But I wanted to EPP and I couldn’t find any graph paper or paper…
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