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How ingenious of me :)
You know I love working with scraps and when we got ready to head to the cottage, for the season, and I didn’t have a project to work on, I grabbed my Kona cotton scrap basket and headed out the door. … Continue reading
Posted in Design, fabric, Quilting, scrap, scraps
Tagged design, kona cotton, quilt, quilt math, quilting, scrap, solid
9 Comments
Best Banana Bread, ever.
To say I love banana bread is an understatement. I think I have tried every recipe out there always trying to perfect the last one. Until now. This is where I draw the line in the flour. No need to … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Eating, Favorite Things, Recipes
Tagged best banana bread ever, better than martha stewart's, cooking, good eats, healthy snacks
10 Comments
Amelia approved!
I whipped this bag up, as a Christmas gift, for our youngest grand-daughter, Amelia. Her family recently took up camping and you know, if you have ever camped, you can never have enough tote bags. Well, if you travel with … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Crafting, Design, fabric, Finishes, Gifts, Linkys, Sewing
Tagged camping, canvas, cotton and steel, crafting, fabric, mochi dots, noodlehead, poolside tote, poolside tote review, poolside tote size, sewfrench, sewing, soft and stable, tote bag, tula pink forest frivolity, Zippers by the yard
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New Leaves
As for the Bloggers’ Quilt Festival, you vote by going here and then click in the upper right hand corner, of your favorite quilt picture. A red heart will appear when you have voted. Thanks if mine was a favorite!! If not, … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 completes, Design, fabric, Gifts, hand quilting, Quilting, Quotes
Tagged Amit Ray, baptist fan, Bloggers Quilt Festival Spring 2015, BQF, falling leaf, hand quilted, hand quilting, how to make a maple leaf quilt, kona cotton, Maple leaf, Marking a baptist fan, quote, solids, vintage quilt
16 Comments
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
★★★★☆ “Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of … Continue reading
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
★★★☆☆ From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of young Jewish woman growing up in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Finishes, Reading
Tagged Anita Diamant, books, reading, spoilers, The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
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Will these be on your St. Patrick’s Day table?
Taking the month of March, to recharge and reconnect, is priceless. We are alive and well, thoroughly enjoying ourselves. We are spending more time in the sunshine, reading, walking, (10,000 steps is about 5 miles) going to ballgames (go Detroit Tigers), … Continue reading
Nursery Door Silencer…
Latch Cover…. what ever you want to call it, it is what grand baby needs. This is how I did it. I also used 2 layers of quilt batting to pad it just a bit. And seeing how we have … Continue reading
Posted in Crafting, Finishes, Sewing, video
Tagged diy, door silencer, measurements, Nursery door latch cover, tutorial, video
6 Comments
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
★★★☆☆ Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived—and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club—a secret … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Finishes, Reading
Tagged books, Dark Places, Dark Places by Gillian Flynn, reading, spoilers, The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
4 Comments
The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain
★★★★☆ In The Silent Sister, Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she’s in New Bern, North Carolina … Continue reading
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