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Another Mother’s Day post :)

Posted in Family, tagged , , , , , on March 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Our oldest daughter, the one who received the Turquoise Scraps quilt for her birthday, has brought me the most beautiful Mother’s Day card! She cut pictures out of magazines and recreated the Buttonberry (Note: Link Updated 30-8-11) block that I used for her turquoise birthday quilt and also for her queen-size black, red and white [...]

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Costume Week (and “Too Good to Cut” update)

Posted in "Too Good to Cut" Challenge, Family, tagged , , , , on March 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »

My daughter’s school celebrated Book Week this week in conjunction with World Book Day on March 4, and one day, the students were allowed to dress as characters from their favourite books instead of wearing their usual school uniforms. My young daughter recently had an opportunity to meet the author John Malam, and she received [...]

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Birthday Girl (Turquoise Scraps quilt)

Posted in Family, Scrap quilting, tagged , , , , on March 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »

I finished quilting the Turquoise Scraps birthday quilt today, just in time to deliver it to our oldest daughter when she came over for dinner and cake to celebrate her birthday this evening. Here’s the front… and the back… and our beautiful Birthday Girl.   She likes her quilt.     Happy 19th Birthday, Sweetheart! Happy Quilting!

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Sharing My Stash (Week 5 Stash Report)

Posted in Family, Scrap quilting, Stash Reports 2010, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 31, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Someone else has been using my stash this week — and I am so excited about it! My 8-year-old daughter started making her first quilt yesterday.  I shared with her some of the 5-inch squares that I had cut for the Puss in the Corner blocks. She started out sewing on her pink Barbie sewing [...]

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Christmas surprise from Texas :)

Posted in Family, tagged , , on December 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I just got the most wonderful Christmas present from my best friend in Austin, Texas.   She writes the blog, Blue Eyes and Bluebonnets. It’s a Texas care package!  It has lots of things that I cannot buy here in England and really miss from “home” — Luzianne tea bags (for “real” iced tea!), Kraft macaroni [...]

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Merry Christmas! (almost made it…)

Posted in Family, quilting, tagged , , , , on December 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Well, I almost finished it on time.  It’s basted (you can see the safety pins) and partially quilted.  I showed it to Pumpkin this morning after she opened her other gifts, and she is so pleased with it!  (You can’t see her smile behind the quilt, but she has very happy eyes!)  I have promised [...]

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