This week Susi challenged us to use our Midas Touch & make something utilizing gold (it didn’t have to be real gold, or course, have you seen the price of that stuff?!). I had to think a lot...
Feb 16, 2011
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Lots to do for my traditional quilting techniques class this week. First we had to hand piece the Eight-Pointed Star block.Mine looks pretty good though I have a tiny hole in the middle which the teac...
Feb 14, 2011
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For this week, the challenge is actually a contest, so I will admit to you, I considered skipping it. (I am co-host of the challenge, and I’m not in the running for a prize.)
Then, I was struck...
Feb 09, 2011
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This week’s Iron Craft challenge was to create something to fit the theme of winter. I’m surrounded by winter to you’d think this would be an easy one but really it took me a long ti...
Feb 09, 2011
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This week I started an eight week course in traditional quilting techniques. We’ll be creating a 9 square wall hanging all by hand! This week we used templates to cut our squares, paying careful...
Feb 04, 2011
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And here we have a heart garland.
(What? Another garland? For heaven sake woman.)
What can I tell you. I love a garland. I love that you can put it up, and then take it down, and enjoy it next yea...
Feb 03, 2011
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Hearts, hearts, everywhere.
The house is filled with hearts.
We have a ‘meditation ball’ heart that has a very satisfying bell that clangs in it.
I made some heart ornaments at Christmas...
Jan 28, 2011
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This week’s Iron Craft challenge was to make a coffee sleeve or cozy. I’m a big fan of reusable coffee sleeves, it just makes me cringe to take those cardboard ones as often as I get coffe...
Jan 26, 2011
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Challenge 4: Coffee Cozy.
Here it is, two years later, and I have just now gone back half caff. HALF caff! I’ll be back to ‘coffee’ by the time the little angel goes to High Schoo...
Jan 25, 2011
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I have finished the piece I was test knitting for What Would Madame DeFarge Knit (sorry, I can’t show you until the book comes out) so, I picked up a project I had set aside.
I’m really i...
Jan 25, 2011
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