tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2747613513365603522024-03-05T12:13:43.569-06:00SeeLifeMarvelsThe best things in life aren't things. They're living and breathing. The best things in life aren't things. They're something you can believe in. (Michael Franti)
SeeLifeMarvelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05969916228151073760noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274761351336560352.post-6122282461764026642014-06-13T11:55:00.000-05:002014-06-13T11:55:15.905-05:00Friendly Inspiration<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">The thing about belonging to this crafting, sewing, quilting community is we are bombarded, constantly, with inspiration and ideas. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">The sound of thunder and a steady rain early this morning started my day. A quick glance at the radar map showed a heavy storm over top of my immediate area, as well as lots more headed over from the west.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Perfect. I could, in between the rain showers and lightening crackles, walk the dog, complete some early morning chores, and eventually, sit for a few uninterrupted hours at the sewing machine. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">However, after I plugged in the laptop and grabbed a Coke, I was instantly caught up in reading about and seeing the creativity of some of my friends.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://prsd4tim2.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Wendi</a>, who lives a hop skip and a jump from my children's school, had just posted about a new pattern she secretly tested this week for her daughter <a href="http://www.acraftyfox.net/" target="_blank">Amanda</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Wendi's quilt, made from Amanda's pattern, <a href="http://www.westwoodacresfabric.com/products/treasure-map-digital-pattern" target="_blank">Treasure Hunt</a>, and with tons of saturated <a href="http://www.annamariahorner.com/" target="_blank">Anna Maria Horner</a> fabrics, is inspiration number one this morning. The PDF can be purchased from Amanda's online store <a href="http://www.westwoodacresfabric.com/" target="_blank">Westwood Acres</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">The second piece of inspiration comes from my online friend, <a href="http://happyfabric.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Erica</a>, whom I started following a year ago. We like the same things - bright, colorful, happy fabrics.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Straightaway, I was drawn to the scrappy vibrant hues used for this block. It's also easy - being strip-pieced on phone book pages and made from random width scraps! One which BabyBird and BigP and I could make together this summer. Quality sewing time with my two + easy + scrap usage = winner!</span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Two new additions to my ever growing "<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/seelifemarvels/quilts-inspiration-fabric/" target="_blank">Quilts, Inspiration, and Fabric" Board</a> on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>. Thanks ladies!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">If I'm going to sew, I need to leave the computer. Happy Friday! </span>SeeLifeMarvelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05969916228151073760noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274761351336560352.post-71201457074882542312014-05-19T14:44:00.002-05:002014-06-13T11:57:28.151-05:00I'm a Fan of Easy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">For me, nothing is easier than making string blocks. Just slice fabric into long thin strips, and sew it back together on foundation paper. Almost any paper works - copier paper, an old phone book page, or even lightweight non-fusible interfacing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">I started this <a href="http://seelifemarvels.blogspot.com/2013/10/wip-wednesday.html" target="_blank">quilt</a> a long time ago. It was another Gala donation. Our theme that year was heavily influenced by the colors and feel of Mexico. I pulled fabrics from my stash in our chosen colors of lime, turquoise, deep red, and white. My favorite fabric was a turquoise and white sand dollar print because both the color, and the sand dollar, represent our school. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Piecing this quilt happened rather quickly. Quilting it, not so much. But, one day this past October while I was spray basting outside, inspiration, literally, fell from the sky. The shadows of the screen enclosure made great intersecting angles! I immediately grabbed my <a href="http://www.dritz.com/brands/showcase/details.php?ITEM_NUM=676-60" target="_blank">water soluble marker</a> along with my 8' straight edge, and traced what I saw.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Again, because I love easy, I knew I'd quilt straight lines.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Instead of dense straight line quilting that I am a huge fan of, I chose to keep it even simpler. Each angle was initially stitched, and each quadrant filled with stitching lines about 2.5 inches apart. That wasn't quite doing it for me - the quilting was a little too sparse - so I went back and quilted .25' from each of those lines, which added the extra texture I wanted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">As it so often is, the quilting lines, in white, are subtle on the front and more pronounced on the back. Once again, pulling from my stash, this time my BATIK stash (Oh, no! Batiks aren't modern, so goes the old argument), I matched our theme colors, even inserting another good-sized chunk of that sand dollar fabric.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">When I mentioned to a friend I was using so much red, and even red batiks, with a mostly white top, she thought I was crazy. Never fear, cold water, and three <a href="http://www.shoutitout.com/en-US/Products/Pages/shout-color-catcher.aspx" target="_blank">Shout Color Catchers</a> in the first wash left the top free of bleeding.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">This quilt measured 54" x 54". So why did something with so many easy parts, take so long to complete? Because Trish said she'd wait forever. And I'm real good at finding something else to do.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">I 'm glad I gave it to her this past October and she had it to wrap up with during our unseasonably cold winter.</span></span>SeeLifeMarvelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05969916228151073760noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274761351336560352.post-91739655314510646842014-05-17T19:24:00.000-05:002014-05-17T19:24:24.007-05:00Gala 2014<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">After lamenting yesterday that I'd misplaced my camera, I said as much to my husband who replied "Oh, it's in the back of the car. Along with some other stuff."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">We rent a venue way in advance; choose a theme; decide on catering; and go to work. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Work the day of Gala, means hauling in all of the children's individual artwork and displaying it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Same with the classroom art projects. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Each classroom designs and creates, over many weeks, several pieces for our Live Auction. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Children from as young as 18 months to as old as 15 years collaborate on all of these pieces. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">In addition to the Live Auction pieces, parents, friends, and local businesses contribute items for our Silent Auction.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">This is my <a href="http://seelifemarvels.blogspot.com/2013/04/relax.html" target="_blank">third</a> year making items for Silent Auction.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Of course, I wouldn't be true-to-form if I didn't wait until the last minute.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">So last minute in fact, I finished them Friday night. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Actually, the wee small hours of Saturday morning. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">I mean, I knew I was making pillow covers. The easy envelope kind, because with Kona White as a background, you know they're going to get dirty. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">I knew what fabrics I was using. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">I knew I wanted them colorful, and I also knew I wanted to use a pieces from our theme fabric.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Other than that, I had no idea what I was going to do until very late Friday night. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">My description for the Silent Auction table was something like this: "Two, 18" Modern Geometric Quilted Pillow Covers with Inserts."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;"> "A color palette of tangerine, lemon, lime, avocado, and turquoise make you think of sipping cool citrusy drinks, poolside, on a hot afternoon."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Even if it wasn't missing, I think I'd still be behind.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Because, as a friend just said recently about herself "I'm just a classic overachiever."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">I have that trait too. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">It gets me in trouble more times than I can count.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Because I think I can do it all.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">I should know better.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Deadlines and commitments for all of those things I said I could do, or THOUGHT I could do, come calling.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Which leads to clutter, and chaos, and sleepless nights.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">And creativity. Which is how this happens in the first place.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">I am either around creative women because of my <a href="http://emeraldcoastmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">ECMQG</a> affiliation, or I'm tuned into a vast network of creative folks because of <a href="http://instagram.com/" target="_blank">IG</a> and <a href="https://www.flickr.com/" target="_blank">Flickr</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">I get pulled in by the beauty and enthusiasm of their projects that I want to participate too. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">So I sign-up and commit and create. But I've lost my real camera. I know there are pictures on it. I have my iPhone, which has tons of pictures. But I have to sync it. Maybe I'll do that tonight, once it's all quiet.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Or maybe I won't, because I'll be sewing or playing with fabric.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd just finished a last minute (selfish sewing!), Halloween HST pillow and I wasn't quite ready to put away the Halloween fabrics. Besides, my VGF loves Halloween as much as I do, so receiving a Halloween pillow in December is no big deal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to make it different than the one I'd just completed and I've always loved the medallion layout. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a few scraps she'd just sent me, as well as a selection of purple, orange, and black charm squares from two of Moda's Halloween lines - the Boo Crew by Sweetwater and Monster Bash from Sandy Gervais - I put this together really fast. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Simple straight line quilting a quarter inch apart also made this a really quick finish. Just a couple of lines in the white bands and denser quilting within the colored bands added subtle texture. I like how this doesn't scream Halloween.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So in the space of about a week, not one, but two HST projects finished. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't say I like piecing and trimming HSTs any better, but I can say with practice, their precise lines look pretty darn awesome. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I'm playing catch up, I really really wish I had my sewing machine on this trip. But if I did, I wouldn't be posting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy New Year y'all!</span></div>
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SeeLifeMarvelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05969916228151073760noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274761351336560352.post-55346228472819528142013-11-08T12:23:00.000-06:002013-11-08T12:23:58.411-06:00Cross Something Off<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My friends that know me, understand that being late is part of my <strike>charm</strike>, personality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I go full out, often over committing, and consequently, run smack into deadlines like a speeding car hitting a brick wall. It's not pretty. However, I recover nicely and continue on as if nothing happened. For this reason, I work best independently. No point in frustrating others because of my idiosyncrasies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that Halloween has passed and all of our school and family activities are completed, I've had time to actually sit and sew. Sew for some of the swaps I signed-up for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a pillow cover I started the first part of October. It was for a private swap from the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/modernista/" target="_blank">Modernista Homemade</a> Flickr group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know we said we'd do small things, but I just love pillow covers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Erica is receiving a pillow cover, a small lined container, and a QAYG potholder. And a pair of cute Halloween spider socks because 1) I can't resist cute socks and 2) I don't wear them because I live in FL. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From Erica, I received this adorable spider pincushion (we even have some of the same stash, just different colorways!), a crocheted dish towel, and a medium size goody basket. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think I made out pretty good. I hope Erica likes her items as much as I LOVE mine. The best part though, came in the note Erica wrote. "I had intentions of getting this sent earlier, but things got crazy."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm linking up to <a href="http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Amanda Jean's</a> <a href="http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2013/11/valued-pillows.html" target="_blank">Finish it Up Friday</a> because I really did just finish today!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am lucky, because she generously shares her talents. This is the mural she painted 13 years ago on the walls of SweetP's nursery a few weeks after his birth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I was pregnant, I knew I wanted our baby's room to be sea themed, and Julie offered to paint a mural. (This was before the Navy started </span><a href="http://seelifemarvels.blogspot.com/2013/10/home.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">moving</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> us around.) She poured so much love into creating this vibrant space for my baby! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is from the children's book, <u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Runaway-Whale-Keith-Faulkner/dp/0681410140" target="_blank">The Runaway Whale</a>,</u> written by Keith Faulkner and illustrated by Jonathan Lambert. I immediately fell in love, not only with the story, but the colors and whimsical underwater illustrations that long ago day in the thrift store. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every time we travel back to Virginia, I make a point of taking a picture of BigP and BabyBird with his mural. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I began sewing again several years ago, I fell in love with batiks because of the color and movement. Mainly, because I CAN'T draw. Or paint, unless walls & rooms count. But playing with fabric and colorful batiks fueled my creative desires.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Julie admired these blocks from the start. She even claimed them for her own before I was sure I wanted to give them up. She suggested I make a GIANT duvet cover for her down comforter. Um, I'm not quite up to that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like so many things, I've put this project away. Then, two weeks ago, terrible news came from my sister regarding her niece Holly. She had passed away unexpectedly while sleeping. A horror I can't begin to imagine. Understandably, Julie was devastated. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm still not sure how this will look when it's finished. As it is with all sewing I do for others, Julie has constantly been in my thoughts while I stitch and contemplate design. I've always said sewing with intention, with thoughtfulness, with mindfulness, is a moving meditation. I hope Julie will feel my love when this finally arrives on her doorstep.</span>SeeLifeMarvelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05969916228151073760noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274761351336560352.post-35298598689606268542013-11-06T23:30:00.000-06:002013-11-06T23:30:03.083-06:00A Lovely Year of Finishes - #1, Sort of<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the month I'm attempting to finish MANY of the WiPs that have accumulated. My friend <a href="http://prsd4tim2.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Wendi</a> and fellow <a href="http://www.emeraldcoastmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">ECMQG</a> member has inspired me with all of her completed quilts because of this <a href="http://blog.sewbittersweetdesigns.com/?page_id=3033" target="_blank">linky</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hosted by <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Melissa of </span><a href="http://blog.sewbittersweetdesigns.com/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #743399; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Sew BitterSweet Designs</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"> and Shanna of </span><a href="http://www.fiberofallsorts.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #743399; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Fiber of All Sorts</a>, it's a year long nudge that encourages us to finish what we start. (I should've joined earlier.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have good intentions. I just get sidetracked by other things. New fabric. A new project. Or maybe a challenge or a swap. It's always something. Sometimes, it's just because the idea I have in my head needs to sit an perk awhile longer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, after completing a quilt last month that had lingered for 18 months (yikes!), I'd like to make another one leave my house so it can be enjoyed and played with and snuggled under like quilts are intended to do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This particular quilt was intended for as a baby shower gift quite awhile ago. Said baby is probably 17 or 18 months old now. Not exactly a baby. Time to finish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is the <a href="http://seelifemarvels.blogspot.com/2012/05/busy-busy-busy.html" target="_blank">original</a> post. And here are the pictures of my Peace, Love, & Happyness quilt as it was when I put it away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The best part now, after all of this time, is I know EXACTLY how I'm going to quilt it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't wait to get started again.</span>SeeLifeMarvelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05969916228151073760noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274761351336560352.post-19031135986308909102013-11-06T19:24:00.002-06:002013-11-06T19:24:14.957-06:00Figuring Things Out<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On advice from Nesta of <a href="http://ellaandnesta.blogspot.it/" target="_blank">Ella & Nesta's Little Room</a> I'm attempting to figure out Bloglovin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See, that's what happens when you decide to open your private little thoughts and creations to the world. Someone gives you advice. Someone helps you learn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what I've made, Halloween-wise, recently. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First there was the <a href="http://www.emeraldcoastmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/2013/10/october-meeting-recap.html" target="_blank">Spoo-ky Swap</a> I instigated via Facebook the day after our September <a href="http://www.emeraldcoastmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">guild</a> meeting. I had 10 or 11 takers, which was exciting because most had never participated in a swap. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My partner was Amy, who loves Halloween as much as I do. I made her three small items - a <a href="http://www.incolororder.com/2011/09/guest-post-holiday-bake-craft-sew.html" target="_blank">coffee cosy</a>, an improv-pieced stand-up bag/container, and a little <a href="http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2009/09/ticker-tape.html" target="_blank">ticker-tape</a> mini quilt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I began working on what I thought would be two pillow covers for another swap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neither has made it out of the WiP pile. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did some selfish sewing for me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spend Wednesdays at my friend Bobbi's. She and I had our children in the same school, during which time we'd visit our favorite LQS and <a href="http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/256/1168863/restaurant/Taco-Rock-Pensacola" target="_blank">Mexican hole-in-the-wall restaurant</a>, bonding over fabric and food. Now that her daughter is homeschooled, that doesn't happen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So Wednesday mornings, I <strike>pack</strike> cram a good portion of my sewing supplies and my children into the car, drop them (the kids) at school, and head up to Bobbi's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She also participated in our guild's Spoo-ky Swap. Last week, while rummaging through her scrap bag, I found all of her leftover HSTs. They were calling my name! I made a few more; added some of my scraps (the lime spiders) and by the end of the night, I had a pillow cover!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thursday was the big day. We cleaned. I cooked. The neighborhood driveway party happened as it does every year. The kids trick-or-treated. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday and yesterday, still feeling the Halloween vibe, I played with more black, orange, and purples to make this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So you see, even though it's November, the Halloween spirit is still hanging out at my house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am linking up with Lee over at <a href="http://www.freshlypieced.com/" target="_blank">freshly pieced</a> for WiP wednesday and Kelly from <a href="http://www.myquiltinfatuation.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">My Quilt Infatuation</a> for Needle and Thread Thursday. </span><br />
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SeeLifeMarvelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05969916228151073760noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274761351336560352.post-3851470763029706002013-10-29T08:42:00.000-05:002013-10-29T08:42:30.961-05:00Home<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As a Navy family, we never had the choice of where we were headed. We loved some of our duty stations more than others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Without a doubt, I absolutely loved living along the coast of central Florida when my children were babies and toddlers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had the beach just a short distance from the house and Orlando with all of it's many attractions, was about an hour away. We had an airport and destination city that made it easily affordable for family and friends to visit. We had sunshine, orange groves, space shuttles, alligators, and palm trees! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Others were short-term, but the friendships that began there, are some of the most enduring my children have known.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He traveled every couple of weeks back to Pensacola to see us. During long weekends without kid activities, we'd make the drive to see him. Or, we'd spend a week or ten days with him at the beginning and end of summer break. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We knew retirement was within reach. We didn't know when, exactly, until it was suggested his next duty station might be the Pentagon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There were many places we hadn't been to. Many parts of the country where we could pick up and start over, as military families often do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We could return to what we had known as children. Back to the area where much of our families live. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Or, we could stay right where we were. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where our neighbors have become not only good friends, but family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pensacola is home. </span>SeeLifeMarvelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05969916228151073760noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274761351336560352.post-49255858565892263782013-10-27T23:20:00.003-05:002013-10-27T23:20:48.452-05:00Modern Trees QAL<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My friend <a href="http://kirabell.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kira</a> put me up to this. A lovely little <a href="http://christaquiltsblog.com/2013/09/11/christas-quilt-along-7-0-modern-trees-intro-and-schedule/" target="_blank">QAL</a> from <a href="http://christaquiltsblog.com/" target="_blank">Christa Quilts!</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, improv trees are something I've wanted to do. I love improv anyway, and Christmas trees like these could be fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm already a little behind schedule, but hey, that's the way it always is for me. If I do nothing else the week we head to the east coast for a little change of scenery, I will bring my scraps and my trusty mint green Hello Kitty Janome and piece this little quilt.</span></div>
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September a year ago, she planned to make a surprise birthday gift for her husband. A pillow for his gigantic, newly built and furnished man cave. He and their boys love dragons, magic, and all things Harry Potter, so she sorted through her fabric bins and chose wizards, dragons, frogs, cats and stars. Everything that reminded her of him.</span><br />
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She cut and sewed. She arranged squares and rectangles. She planned fabric placement. She became frustrated. So frustrated in fact, she scrapped (no pun intended) her plans for the surprise gift. She bagged up all of the offending scraps and sent them on their way to Florida with the missive "make them go away".</span><br />
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Her unwanted scraps arrived, <a href="http://seelifemarvels.blogspot.com/2012/10/mailbox-goodies-and-other-things.html">along with a box of many more</a>, where they were very much appreciated. These particular scraps, however, were set aside for just the right project.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We make what seems like an annual sojourn east and north out of our little corner of Florida up the coast to Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware where much of our family lives. I knew I wanted to make (and take) my friend something that used her special scraps. Even though she'd said "make them go away". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This unfinished ROYGBIV <a href="http://piecebynumber.com/circleofgeese.htm">circle of geese block</a> is as far as I got. Of course, I didn't start piecing and sewing until three days before we were supposed to leave. Not a whole lot of time to complete a project, let alone pack and organize four people for a 3 week, 3000+ mile trip. It's that old procrastinator gene that's encoded in my DNA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh! I know. Make a smaller version!!! A version so tiny it would require borders to reach the dimensions of a <a href="http://vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca/blog/2013/04/to-boston-with-love/">6 x 8 inch mini flag</a>. And bonus, use even smaller scraps so that you get the wizard's hand and wand, or the dragon's snout, or the kittie's feet, or even a little itty-bitty mouse!! This I could give her to tide her over until the bigger pillow cover was completed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Done. Trip made. Time spent with friends and family. Birthdays celebrated. Retirement celebrated. Many good meals shared. Many tears shed. Summer science camp for kids completed. Rental house maintenance projects completed. Rental house plans formulated. Many, many miles driven. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This past week, I decided it was time to complete some of the many WIP sewing projects that have lingered. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because the pillow top itself is so busy, I quilted with simple straight lines that intersect on the diagonal. After four double sets on each diagonal, I quilted the triangles that were formed with 1/4 inch straight lines. I like the texture it adds, plus, it plays up the shape of the geese.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I haven't mentioned is I used that thinner-than-a-strand-of-hair nylon thread. Holy cow! Not looking forward to using that again any time soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why nylon thread? Two reasons really including the aforementioned fact that the top was so busy. As much as I like seeing how thread adds to the texture and design of the quilt, the person who was receiving this is just the opposite. She hates seeing the thread lines. Everything she ever made for my family was stitched with nylon thread.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A trip to my LQS to pick up a spool of Coats & Clark Transparent Nylon thread. The size says it's .004. As I said, thinner than a strand of hair! Yikes!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For all of the heartache these scraps initially gave her, I think she'll be pleased with the end result. I don't think she'll be saying "make them go away" now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But today I did. Because I have to start somewhere. Or re-start as the case may be. And since today is Wednesday, what better place to start than WIP Wednesday hosted by <a href="http://www.freshlypieced.com/">Lee at Freshly Pieced</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Accountability for all of these projects I start.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In another life, I worked for an accounting firm. One of the acronyms we used was LIFO - Last In First Out. Here are SOME of my <strike>unfinished</strike>, er WIPs, and in true LIFO fashion, they are newest to oldest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My guild, <a href="http://www.emeraldcoastmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/">ECMQG</a>, okay, me really, instigated a small swap of Halloween themed items, or if you preferred, Fall themed items. Small projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is the just-in-case project because as you know if you've ever participated in an online swap, there always has to be a plan B. My longtime friend who lives in VA wanted to play, and "just in case" her item didn't make it to Pensacola timely, I wanted a back up for her partner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Luckily, Dee's item made it, but this was Plan B. Just in case. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Barbie, is what I've been calling this baby girl quilt I began in late August (probably the day after the new school year began, ha!) </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">because of this inspiring image.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My third WIP has been sitting for far too long in the basket of quilt tops. A good 17 months or so. What can I say? I didn't have an ideal quilting design in mind, and the person to who was waiting for this said she'd wait "forever". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While I had it laid out on the pool deck for spray basting, quilting inspiration came in the form of the shadows from the screen supports. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, yes, I like all of the above. I'd love to join. Make a mosaic? Hmmm... So, I missed Round 3, but I saw all of the beautiful creative items <a href="http://kirabell.blogspot.com/2013/04/swoon-y-floor-pillow-and-basket.html">Kira</a>, <a href="http://prsd4tim2.blogspot.com/2013/04/prince-charming-double-hexie-pillows.html">Wendi</a>, and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimmer722/8536893728/in/photostream/">Kim</a> made and received. Wow! I was hooked. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I lucked out. My partner had done this before. Her application was very detailed. She had terrific <a href="http://pinterest.com/craftnursequilt/" target="_blank">pins</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/craftnursequilt/" target="_blank">favorites and photostream</a>, and, she even had a <a href="http://craftnursequilt.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog</a>. I stalked her. This was going to be easy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a few fits and starts, a mess up, and one thing that totally didn't turn out like I'd wanted, I mailed Kelie's package a tad bit late. Yes, I admit it, I belong to the procrastinators-r-us club.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And in the note she quickly sent thanking me, I quote: "I just wanted to say THANK YOU SO MUCH for my wonderful package! I ABSOLUTELY L-O-V-E EVERYTHING! SERIOUSLY!!!! You nailed it!"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These do just that. They are my prayer flags for the <a href="http://vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca/blog/2013/05/museum-of-fine-arts-boston-to-exhibit-to-boston-with-love/" target="_blank">To Boston with Love</a> initiative. My local MQG, the <a href="http://www.emeraldcoastmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Emerald Coast MQG</a>, decided to contribute to this project. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our flags had to be ready by May 9th in order to send them as a group effort. As is the norm for me, I sewed late into the night before our meeting, as well as the early morning the day of our meeting. Unlike some people I know, I work best under pressure. Self-induced that is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Probably my favorite of the four flags I made. I could tell you about the construction, or, I could tell you about my thoughts as I created this. However, if you sew, you can probably figure out the how-to part. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The spiral in this healing hand is the journey. The messy knot is the beginning of the trauma. The irregular running stitch through the middle of the spiral are the steps - baby steps and big giant running strides - that we each must take at our own pace. The center is the end of the journey, when we are finally at peace. That center heart is for all of the love we've been given, have received, and given right back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My old-soul child, my exuberant, vibrant, mercurial 10-year old, knew exactly what I was making as soon as she saw my sketch. If she ever decides to adorn her body with a tattoo, I know it will be a healing hand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My friend and fellow ECMQG member designed the pattern I used to make my heart, although I tweaked (because I don't follow directions!) it slightly. Kira posted her pattern <a href="http://kirabell.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two other small items I completed over the weekend. A couple of scrappy, improv pieced blocks for another Boston project. This one is <a href="http://bostonmqg.blogspot.com/p/quilts-for-boston.html" target="_blank">Quilts for Boston</a> by the <a href="http://bostonmqg.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Boston MQG</a>. I like being a small part of something larger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm also thrilled that Elle decided to join me in making a block. Hers is spectacular! Her pattern is from an Etsy shop called Piece by Number, which you can find <a href="http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/PieceByNumberQuilts?ref=seller_info" target="_blank">here</a>. Isn't it beautiful?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three weeks ago, after that horrible day and ensuing week in Boston, my guild, <a href="http://www.emeraldcoastmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">ECMQG</a>, decided to join with the <a href="http://vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca/blog/" target="_blank">Vancouver MQG</a> in making and sending little flags to Boston. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the <a href="http://vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca/blog/2013/04/to-boston-with-love/" target="_blank">To Boston with LOVE</a> project. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As frustrated as she became during construction of this little flag, I kept telling her "It's ok. It's the intention with which it was made that counts." I think it's beautiful. And uplifting. And it fits exactly what the original idea was all about - "to bring peace and love from far and wide".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let love be your guide. In all you do. Namaste.</span>SeeLifeMarvelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05969916228151073760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274761351336560352.post-72262591020719763962013-04-24T09:57:00.000-05:002013-10-29T09:19:53.728-05:00Relax<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another completed project that I didn't keep. Seems to be the way it is for most of the creative people I know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Have an idea? Maybe. Ok, sure. How do I want to do it? Not sure, but I'll figure it out. Hmmm...Maybe this isn't working. Ok, let's try it this way. Finally, ta da! Sucess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And so it went for this 28 x 14 pillow cover and bolster. Strip piecing? Check. Envelope pillow closure? Check. Find, choose, enlarge, trace, and cut out font? Check. Raw edge applique? Leave that box blank, but it didn't seem too daunting on the difficulty scale. Use <a href="http://www.pellonprojects.com/products/1365-805r-wonder-under.aspx" target="_blank">Wonder-Under</a>? There's a first time for everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love how some of my current favorite fabric lines and older stash pieces coordinate so well together! There's a little bit of <a href="http://tulapink.com/2012/10/15/salt-water-new-fabric/" target="_blank">Salt Water</a> by Tula Pink, some <a href="http://www.unitednotions.com/fcc_seascapes.pdf" target="_blank">Seascapes</a> by Deb Strain for Moda, a couple of Art Gallery's <a href="http://www.artgalleryfabrics.com/cgi-bin/fabricshop/gallery.cgi?Category=42&View=All&v=1" target="_blank">Oval Elements</a>, two pieces of <a href="http://www.ttfabrics.com/?s=sketch" target="_blank">Sketch</a> from Timeless Treasures, another Moda piece - <a href="http://www.unitednotions.com/fcc_Lovely.pdf" target="_blank">Lovely</a> - by Sandy Gervais, and even a small piece of Lizzy House <a href="http://lizzyhouse.typepad.com/lizzyhouse/2012/09/all-the-pearl-bracelets-.html" target="_blank">Pearl Bracelets</a> (it's on the end in cream, so you don't see it in this picture). </span></div>
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SeeLifeMarvelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05969916228151073760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274761351336560352.post-46780337156576499742013-04-05T11:15:00.001-05:002013-06-13T21:52:46.062-05:00QAYG Inspiration<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I fell in love with this pillow the first time I saw it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our school's Silent Auction and Gala is in two weeks. The theme this year is Sand, Sea, and Sky. Perfect. I'll make something. What? Hmmm... Something small, because, as I said, Gala is in two weeks. Let's be honest here, no way would I have a completed quilt within a week, even if I wanted to. So, how about a really cool pillow?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A perusing of Pinterest, my pins and boards, as well as everyone else's, ALWAYS provides inspiration overload. At any rate, I kept coming back to this pillow. My style - scrappy, modern, wonky, improv, and best of all, QAYG! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I haven't tried QAYG, but have wanted to since last October when several of the <a href="http://ellisonlane.blogspot.com/p/quilt-alongs.html" target="_blank">Scrappy Stash Quilt Along</a> girls did so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was just going to wing it - my normal modus operandi - when I happened to check Cori's blog, <a href="http://letseatgrandpa.com/" target="_blank">Let's Eat Grandpa!</a>, the creative one who designed and that pillow. Lo and behold, she has a <a href="http://letseatgrandpa.com/2013/01/29/bloomin-quilt-as-you-go-panel-tutorial/" target="_blank">tutorial</a> posted. Ka-ching! Thank you Cori!</span><br />
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<br />SeeLifeMarvelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05969916228151073760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274761351336560352.post-41053197770155474622013-03-29T17:59:00.000-05:002013-03-29T17:59:59.494-05:00LOVe to Peggy<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I grew up with two sisters, Julie (older by 11.5 months) and Tracy (younger by 11.5 months). However, I've always known, if "always" is defined at age nine, that I had another sister, an older sister, who had been placed for adoption at birth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not that I was told details at age nine as to why she didn't live with us. Not that any details about where she was, or who she was, or who adopted her were available in 1972 when my Mom told me about Peggy, my other sister. Mom told me her name - Peggy Sue - but that was all she knew. Or maybe that was all she figured I needed to know. Because I was nine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometime in my adult life, maybe around 2002 or 2003, Mom & Peggy, connected. In turn, Peggy & I corresponded, briefly, but as Peggy said, "she wasn't ready for all of us". It wasn't really until Facebook and several years later that she and I began getting to know each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fast forward to late September/early October 2010. A weekend wedding in Vegas. Mom flew from DC; we flew from FL to meet Peggy and her fiance Richard, my niece Tracy, and Peggy's brother, Doug, and his family.</span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't say we did a lot of catching up. I can't say we even began to fill in gaps. I can say we learned that family is important, regardless of how, or when it comes about. Because a family is about love. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My February project from our <a href="http://www.emeraldcoastmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">ECMQG</a> sew day. The pattern, from KelbySews can be found <a href="http://kelbysews.blogspot.com/p/tutorials.html" target="_blank">here</a>. I knew right away I wanted to make something for Peggy. I brought my blue and brown batik scraps which, from previous Facebook conversations, I already knew she loved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I believe the solid is Kona. Maybe oatmeal? I know I had it in my stash for another project that is still a WIP. The quilting in each letter echoes the pieced shapes, or in the case of the L, the wavy patterned fabric. Let me tell you how easy that was to do!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Above and below are my favorite organic wavy lines. I figured they were appropriate for this, and for Peggy, as love is very much like water - it ebbs and flows; it comes in waves; it can be deep or shallow. But like water, we can't live without it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Naturally, I pieced the back with a strip of the scraps. I really like how the quilting lines, especially the blue, show against the solid. Still need to label it and send it on it's journey.</span><br />
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SeeLifeMarvelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05969916228151073760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274761351336560352.post-68544388611791284442013-03-07T08:59:00.000-06:002013-03-07T08:59:10.304-06:00Motivated<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I've mentioned previously, I'm really good about starting projects. Terrible about finishing them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Example: These piles of 2.5" strips. Halloween fabrics and coordinating others collected over MANY years. Some from JoAnn's. Some from Hancock's. Some from Walmart. Some good ones from A&E. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cut them because I was inspired by <a href="http://quispamsisquilter.blogspot.com/2011/10/scrappy-strippy-halloween-quilt-done.html" target="_blank">this</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://quispamsisquilter.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Riel's</a> Scrappy Strippy Halloween Quilt was simple. It was colorful. It was bright. It used Halloween fabrics. It was EARLY October 2011. Sure, I could do this. Sure, it would be finished by Halloween. No problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, my quilting world is never that neat or quick. Those strips have lingered. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I keep meaning to get back to them, but something else always catches my attention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I rifled through them numerous times this past September and October when I was making <a href="http://seelifemarvels.blogspot.com/2012/10/mailbox-goodies-and-other-things.html" target="_blank">Trick-or-Eek!</a> bags. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I pulled some of them out for our guild's, <a href="http://emeraldcoastmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">ECMQG</a>, 1 year anniversary <a href="http://emeraldcoastmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/2012/10/ecmqgs-one-year-anniversary.html" target="_blank">scrap swap challenge</a>. Leslie made me a fantastic table runner!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I pulled from them again two weeks ago when I was creating <a href="http://seelifemarvels.blogspot.com/2013/02/i-cant-keep-surprise.html" target="_blank">this</a> little presentation bag for the mini-quilt I entered in a quilt show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heck, they were my go to fabrics when I pieced those mini-quilts, <a href="http://seelifemarvels.blogspot.com/2012/10/fright-night-mini.html" target="_blank">Fright Night</a>, for L, and <a href="http://seelifemarvels.blogspot.com/2012/10/monste-madnes-mini.html" target="_blank">Monste-Madness</a> for Jean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So they're being used. Just not as I originally thought.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, I am trying to get back to that original inspiration. See? (Ok, I need to rotate that picture.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A little bit each week. And maybe, just maybe, I'll have a large, bright, scrappy, strippy Halloween quilt this year.</span><br />
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<br />SeeLifeMarvelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05969916228151073760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274761351336560352.post-84869113410144271382013-03-06T15:51:00.000-06:002013-03-06T15:56:03.561-06:00C is for Chevrons and a Cat<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday, as much as I wanted to sew with some of the new fabric I received for my birthday, and with the tiny bit I purchased at the <a href="http://www.beachretreatandshow.com/" target="_blank">quilt show</a> Friday, I realized the fabric bomb that had exploded all over the living room and a good portion of the bedroom, needed to be organized. I also intended to make a list of WIPs. I'm really good about starting things. Terrible about finishing them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check in the box for cleaned up better organized. No check for the WIP list. No check for playing with new fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BUT, I did pull out a 2+ year old WIP (random width WOF batik strips sewn, well, randomly) and began working it into something else. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This. Chevrons. HST chevrons. Imperfect HST chevrons, even with lots of starch and PRECISE (no-that's-not-really-my-thing) measuring and cutting.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My plan is for a small-ish car quilt. Because I live with someone, who, on road trips, keeps the air conditioner frigid. Did I mention that same a/c is usually on high too? And smaller is better, because whenever we travel, we're packed to the gills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So that's my plan. Not sure if I eliminated a WIP, but it feels good to work with my batiks again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that is Bella who decided to take a stroll over to her food bowl. Just as I pressed the shutter button. LOVE her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And as I found out, when you enter a project in a quilt show, there are submission guidelines as to how it's supposed to be presented. Like a label. Still have to do that. Like a way to hang it. Thank goodness this is a mini quilt, and L sewed two little rings to the back when she received it from me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it also needed a presentation bag. Yes, a pillowcase would be acceptable, but it would be TOO big. Plus, I wanted to surprise L as I'd had to ask for her gift back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I knew EXACTLY what bag I wanted to make. <a href="http://www.incolororder.com/2011/10/lined-drawstring-bag-tutorial.html" target="_blank">This one</a>. My favorite. It's SO easy because Jeni's instructions are clear and precise. Besides, I've made a gazillion of them now. That's how much I love it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But this bag had to be special. I knew I was going to make improv wonky stars and I knew I had more than enough Halloween scraps. I knew, because this is for </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my besty after all, that I was going to use black and gray, and that kitty-with-the glowing-eyes print.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I can't keep surprises. As soon as I this little wonky star block came together, I took a quick picture with the iPhone and sent it to her. </span><br />
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SeeLifeMarvelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05969916228151073760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274761351336560352.post-48771405219489990982013-02-19T09:55:00.000-06:002013-02-27T08:19:48.017-06:00Playing<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that I am the blogger for our guild, <a href="http://emeraldcoastmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">ECMQG</a>, I feel the urge to put more here. There's still something about putting my little world out there that unsettles me. But, as I seem to keep pushing <a href="http://kirabell.blogspot.com/2013/02/what-does-carl-sagan-have-to-do-with.html" target="_blank">others</a> to come out of their comfort zones, I have to do the same. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I am pulling out my Halloween fabrics (not that they were ever really "put away") to make a bag for this <a href="http://seelifemarvels.blogspot.com/2013/02/this-is-halloween.html" target="_blank">little mini quilt</a> I entered in a local show, the<a href="http://www.beachretreatandshow.com/" target="_blank"> 2013 Emerald Coast Quilt Retreat and Show</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Funny, when we were "challenged" to enter a quilt, I thought nothing of it. Other quilt-y friends, found it uncomfortable. Not that I have any aspirations about winning. Because I don't. I'm just thrilled to have a chance to show what I love doing with others. Others who may not be modern quilters. Others who sew and quilt and who LOVE fabrics and color, but are not as apt to "play" like I do. Others who may have taken a sewing class years ago, but haven't "played" with fabric in too long of a time. Others, like me, who don't draw or paint, but can fill that creative desire, by "playing" with fabrics. To me, it's all just play.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The little bag I'm making for this quilt to travel to the show in is none other than <a href="http://www.incolororder.com/2011/10/lined-drawstring-bag-tutorial.html" target="_blank">Jeni Baker's</a> lined drawstring bag. I love it (obviously). It's super easy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So while it's February and the predominant colors are white (snow), gray (clouds), brown (dead grass like where I grew up in Virginia), red (Valentine's), or pink (Valentine's again) I'm going to go play with orange, and black, and purple, and chartreuse, and gray. </span></div>
SeeLifeMarvelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05969916228151073760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274761351336560352.post-10732015600377039392013-02-08T22:38:00.000-06:002013-02-19T10:10:35.257-06:00Convoy<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I volunteered to help with administrative duties for our guild, <a href="http://emeraldcoastmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">ECMQG</a>, during our last formal meeting of 2012. <a href="http://www.sewkellysews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kelly S</a>, who was doing everything - EMails, coordinating charity activities, writing our blog, posting pictures, communicating with the <a href="http://themodernquiltguild.com/" target="_blank">MQG</a>, coordinating our meeting ideas, pretty much every task necessary for a start-up - needed some help. So now I'm the Secretary. Which means I write the EMails and blog posts, take notes, and update our various social media sites. Funny when I haven't written anything for my blog in months. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In doing my duties this week, I happened upon <a href="http://prsd4tim2.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">a new friend</a> in the quilting world. A blogger. A modern quilter. And best of all, someone who lives in Pensacola! So, we're driving to Crestview tomorrow. Which is about an hour away from our side(s) of town. I have this little song floating around in my head. I remember when it was on the radio in the mid-1970's. </span></div>
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