Skrappy Ladies Fall Retreat 2009, Pt.1

Yes, I know I’m slow.  Just can’t seem to get in gear, too much to do and not enough energy.
Today’s post will be the reveal of the panel challenges.  The challenge was that everyone supplied a pre-printed panel, pillow size, wallhanging, etc…..    Then envelopes containing clues joined the panels as they were prepared for the [...]

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I Can’t Believe I Pieced the Whole Thing!

The project at the Skrappies retreat last fall was a mystery quilt.  We all worked for days before the retreat, cutting and sewing, thinking we would finish the mystery that weekend.  Were we ever WRONG.  By the end of the weekend no one was close to being finished so the mystery was revealed to give us [...]

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A Finished Project

I finished the February Lady Sweater that I was knitting for Jessica.  I took the picture before it was washed and blocked.  The above picture is pretty true to the color, but in the picture below the color variations show up better, especially when you click on the image and then on to the large size [...]

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Two steps forward, one step back

Saturday I drove down to Lawton for the Skrappies workday.  There were only five of us, but we had a good time and a great potluck lunch.  I think everyone but Cathy was working on their mystery quilts.  Melissa finished piecing all the components on hers and laid it out on the floor.  For sewing [...]

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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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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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