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Today was a very sad day for Oklahoma..It sickened me to see the leveled school from the tornado..so many people dead, homes gone! And here I sit, safe in my beautiful house..in the desert on So.Calif. last week, we had wild fires burning right over our hills..heading to the ocean..My heart beats fast, just thinking about it..to calm my nerves, I pulled out my Red Tulip Quilt, I started last year, trying to recover from 6 operations I had in 2011&2012. Just feeling the quilt top in my hands… Continue

My thoughts prayers and heart ache for everyone in those tornados path. I hope you find safety soon.

For all of you who were patient with my posts of quilts I was finishing off for the Sun County Quilter's Show, thank you for your encouragement!  I entered 10 of the 15 quilts and was amazed to find I had 6 ribbons!  I'm not going to bore you with the photos again, I will just enumerate the winners:

1st Place, Small Machine Applique - "Chocolate Mousse with Raspberry Caramel Creme Sauce"

2nd Place, Medium Pieced - "Dragonfly Dance"

2nd Place, Medium Machine Applique -…

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Finished up my BOM.  I used all Christmas fabrics so I'm way ahead of schedule (granted it was a 2012 BOM series).  Lots of new experiences doing this sampler -  paper piecing, Drunkard's Path, Dresden Plates, and English Paper Piecing.   I learned not a big fan of EPP, and will probably avoid it all all cost…

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This is a caringbridge link for those interested in the progress of Libby.

In spite of a busy week, there was some progress on several projects. The appliqué part of the Delectable Pathways quilt is coming along. 

I worked on it some during the Common Threads meeting, which took place at…

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This particularly is for the states of Fl, Al, Ak, MO, KS, NE, SD, and ND...my 82  year old parents are on the road (against most of the offsprings warnings) driving a motor home that is huge (5 pullout rooms) along with pulling a dual cab 150 Ford truck!!! I think they get a half mile/gal. of gas. They are armed with the brains of thinking they are 20 again! Why ND??? Because some fool (brother) offered my father a safety inspector's job for the summer!!! I am all for keeping them busy, but…

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