Happy Halloween

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The day of the frog.

Yesterday I decided that I would work a little on a jungle scene for “A Crazy World”,  after stitching a couple of leaves and a vine I realized they didn’t look right and weren’t going to work.  So to the frog pond I went and started undoing all of the stitching I had just put in.
After [...]

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The geese have flown.

Woo hoo!!!!   Yesterday I finished all of the “millions” of flying geese for the mystery quilt.  Now I have moved on to cutting the Tri-Recs and have already cut half of the dark ones.
Feeling more optimistic about actually getting this quilt top together in the near future.  I’m hoping to make it down to Lawton in a [...]

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Plodding Along.

Anyone that knows me even just a little, can tell you that I don’t enjoy a lot of piecing when it comes to making quilts.  But I did start this mystery and I plan to plod along until it is all put together.  Since coming home from retreat a lot has happened to keep me [...]

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Walk Like An Egyptian.

Bright and early Thursday morning we headed for Dallas to see the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit.  It was fantastic and well worth the long drive there and back.  Amazing what they produced with “primitive” tools.  There was a gorgeous beaded band bracelet with a large blue scarab closure that I stood and [...]

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On the go.

I got home from retreat late Sunday afternoon and needed to recuperate on Monday and Tuesday.  Today my daughter, Kerry, is coming to spend the day with me.  Then tomorrow Bill, Kerry, Donna, and I will be celebrating my birthday by going to see the King Tut exhibit in Dallas. 
Hopefully on Friday there will be a post to [...]

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Buried in fabric.

I’m still around.  Haven’t done any new stitching on the journey around A Crazy World. 
Instead, there has been cutting, cutting and even more cutting on fabric trying to get ready for a mystery quilt that we will be working on at Skrappies fall retreat.  Decided I wasn’t going to buy any fabric for this mystery [...]

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