Author: lisabongean


  • I hope you picked out a good present for my birthday!

    Yesterday was the 40% off coupon on one item at the store in celebration of me surviving another year of being a shop owner, pattern/book/fabric designer, teacher and soon to

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  • Nine-Patch Gatherings

    The presses are rolling and we should hopefully have books maybe today? Just in time to pack the trailer for Houston…we all have been busy making new swatch charts for

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  • Sweet Georgia!

    Well, what can I say… it was so great to meet all the wonderful Southern Ladies at the Atlanta GA quilt show…they were  all so nice and pleasant…not in any

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  • Another down…

    Well another show is off the books…I just kissed Nick goodbye and he is off to Atlanta…we had enough time to unpack, repack, wash the clothes and pack them, sleep

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  • New at shop…9-patch Gatherings…quilt show today at FVL

    Got to have this book!…it looks like a magazine but it has a soft binding on it and the pages are better quality then a magazine…but the quilts are wonderful

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  • The Gathering….the arrival of the comfy beds..

    The Sleep shop delivered 12 of the beds yesterday! You are gonna love them…even the guys bringing them in were impressed with how nice of mattresses we purchased for our

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  • farmer’s wife sampler blocks-october

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  • quilt olympics?

    Do you think if one existed you would want to be a competitor?  I think I could do it…as I was quilting away tonight finishing the trip around the world

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  • taking a break…

    I am going to sit down a minute and blog…this is my break…I need to write about 3 patterns and all the instructions for my 6 nine patch quilts before

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  • back again…

    Well I am home from Minnesota and had a wonderful time teaching and lecturing about my life and quilts…I had 11 wonderful students in my workshop and met several quilters

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