At long last, here is Retreat Pt.2

Below is a pic from retreat, but where is everyone?  Retreat fell on the same weekend as the OU/Texas game, so they are all out in the lobby in front of the TV.
Cindy was working on a UFO and it gave me an idea of how I can use all of my 80’s floral’s.  It is 8″ [...]

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Crazy World Sketches

I know that I still need to post Fall Retreat Pt.2, but with Bill home recovering from foot surgery, my routine has been disrupted. I will get it posted soon.
I have been knitting.  Kerry asked if I would make something for the new baby of a friend.  So I have knit a sweater, (pics and [...]

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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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Recovering From Retreat

I had a great time at retreat over the weekend, it was so good to see everyone and I actually accomplished a lot,  but I’m not bouncing back very fast.  Arrived back home Sunday afternoon and finally finished unpacking the car yesterday.  Without going into the boring details, there has been a lot of sleeping and [...]

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Touching base

This won’t be a long post, I just want to check in and let everyone know I’m still around.
I have finished my work on the last part of the panel challenge.  We will reveal the finished quilt tops at Skrappy Ladies Fall Retreat, this weekend.  So expect lots of pics next week.  Actually retreat falls [...]

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Silently Stitching

Oh, how I wish I could post about the panel challenge.  I especially like the way my work on the current panel is turning out, even better than I imagined.  There will be one more panel arriving soon and it will be the last.  The reveal is still 2 long months away.
The Skrappy Ladies have decided to [...]

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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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Who’ll stop the rain?

This song has been playing in my head a lot lately.  We have had rain for 17 days in a row.  The sun has made an appearance here and there, but not long enough to dry anything out.  Our backyard looks like a very weedy pond.  The three tomato plants that we got in the ground [...]

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Long time gone.

Hadn’t realized how long it had been since my last post.  There has been a lot going on around here but either it wasn’t blog worthy or was secret Skrappy stuff.  Dug out some of my older cd’s and have been listening to old favorites like Crosby, Stills, Nash, and later to join, Young.  Thus [...]

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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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