For more than a few years, I’ve been meaning to make a pouch to keep my colored pencils. My collection has outgrown their pencil box. Before the new year, I finally made some pouches. I was so pleased to be able to get 4 boxy pouches out of a 1/2 yard cut of this Playful canvas print, by Melody Miller….
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Playful Boxy Pouches
Special Delivery
Recently, I received a special delivery. Can you see it? Yes! You guessed it! My advanced copy of my book came on a sunny day in early January. I anxiously stalked my front door ever time I heard a noise that even remotely sounded like a FedEx truck! Then I snuck it in between some of my favorite quilting books,…
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Don’t name your quilts “Wanderlust” {Friday Finish}
This quilt has been finished for quite awhile, almost 9 months! I made it for Patty Sloniger‘s spring market booth. My quilt, Wanderlust, is the gray one with triangles in the back. Wasn’t Patty’s booth fantastic? The colors in the line, Emma’s Garden, are so so luscious and vibrant. They are right up my alley so I had a bunch…
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Giddy up {WIP Wednesday}
Happy New Year! How are you? I feel like the past few weeks I haven’t been able to check one thing off my list. Once I would have said that multitasking is “the way to go”, but during the past year or so I’ve been trying to focus my immediate attention on one or sometimes a few tasks. I do like…
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2014 Year End Wrap Up
Although I do enjoy year in review posts, my knee jerk reaction is one of dislike. Maybe it’s just me? I think maybe that stems from when my favorite TV shows would do recap shows. But here I am… doing a recap of 2014. 🙂 But maybe yearly reviews prove more useful these days? With the quick pace of social…
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