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Meet Kim Lapacek!

Welcome to my first Quilter interview of the year. You know the best part of quilting besides playing with color, fabric, needles and thread is getting to meet creative people. Don't you agree? And while we are all more or less stuck at home. I thought I would introduce you to some friends of mine you may or may have not met but really should get to know.Technically, Kim Lapacek and I haven't met in person, but we have talked a lot on line via Facebook...

The Gingham HST Project

I am a Hoarder Saver, you know. I save all of those little corner pieces that get cut off of mitered joints on binding and the corners of squares and rectangles when you add a corner - Snowball block style.  And then eventually they get used.  In my 'spare' time that has cropped up from working at home during this current 'Stay at Home' era of our world, I decided to use up a bunch of these corners that I had saved. I had already been...

Vintage Dreams….

I admit it. I have been waxing nostalgic over  the 1970's over the last year or so. Would I think back so fondly on that era now if I had been a grown-up then? I am sure I would not, but I was 6-16 years old in that decade, and I VERY  much miss the innocence and wonder of those days, especially the beginning of the decade.As Christmas approached this last fall, I was having a really hard time handing my missing of those years. ...

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Blowing the Dust Out

Well, well. It has been a long time. To be honest, I am not even sure who is getting alerts that I am posting this. I just looked back and realized that I only posted ONCE since last April. So many times I missed coming here to visit with you. hopefully some of you who started with me 14 years ago are still here.  And NOW as I write this today, we are all smack dab in the middle of VERY INTERESTING times now, aren't we? I...

Something Fishy Sewalong Ocean Park Fabric Banyan Batiks

Something Fishy Sew Along

Welcome to the Something Fishy Sew Along! Ocean Park is hitting the stores next month and Banyan Batiks and I want to celebrate! So I have banded up with Banyan and some of my other Quilting Industry Friends to bring you some opportunities and inspiration to create, play, and maybe even win some cool quiltin’ swag! How will this come about? Introducing the Instagram Something Fishy Sew Along. This will be an Instagram based event, so to participate you have to be able to post on...