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About Me: Quilting for about 20 years. Guild Member. Taught at local quilt shop for several years. Taught quilting to children in elementary schools.
Love applique of all types. Love batiks, sashiko, Asian fabric and designs. Hand and domestic machine quilter. Summer house in the mountains near Lassen Volcanic National Park is my getaway, with no internet, no phone, no T.V. I go there just to quilt, watch the birds and breathe the air!

Hobbies and Interests: quilting, applique, hand quilting, machine quilting

My pets are awesome!: Cat - Mitzie - 20 years old, passed on 4-10-17. That's her in the photo, looking at me sternly.

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Oldest UFO on the Planet!

Posted on March 21, 2016 at 9:38am 15 Comments 1 Favorite

I must have been working on this particular quilt for nearly 20 years! It was a Block of the Month before those became so popular, and I was assured that as a newbie quilter, it was well within my skills! WRONG! I did finally get it together, layered and basted, planning to quilt it on my domestic machine. Well, that was a horrible idea! I had no such skills!

Think the next several years spending time folded up in a drawer, while your maker slowly improves her domestic machine…

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Guild "Retreat" Trivia

Posted on March 3, 2016 at 8:53pm 11 Comments 1 Favorite

Our guild has planned it's annual retreat for mid-June. Unfortunately, the powers that be have decided that, in order to make it affordable for all, we are not actually "retreating", but attending a daily sew-in at the local Veterans Hall for three consecutive days, lunch & dinner provided. A friend and I volunteered to do registration, payment collection, name tags and "goodie bags." We are supposed to plan for about 70 attendees -- not exactly my idea of a retreat, because we return…

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Or, as an alternative . . .

Posted on February 2, 2016 at 7:43am 5 Comments 1 Favorite

Considering that Easter often falls in March, I made up an Easter Itty Bitty:

Meet "Chicka-bunny"!

My March Itty Bitty

Posted on February 2, 2016 at 7:37am 5 Comments 0 Favorites

I have been working from Mari's book, so my version of her March Itty Bitty is in flat cotton, not wool. I have added a small embellishment:

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