Author: lisabongean


  • 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 a couple of hours and he is off for our next adventure.  I am looking forward to Atlanta because we have never been to this…

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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 and scrappy what more could you ask for…speaking of scrappy…look at those nine patch quilts under it…I will show you a few at a time…remember…the…

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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 retreat house…I want all of our guest to have a great night sleep…they is plenty of room left in the rooms so all is going…

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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 nine patch…this is the smallest pantograph I have ever done…it is tiny…it looks deceiving here..but those are 3″ squares…you can see how small it is…

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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 the end of this week…I need to get this last quilt, quilted so we can get them to Jason…our photographer…I love visiting Jason…he totally understands…

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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 that have been customers for a long time…It is always nice to visit and talk about what they are working on…here are my students from…

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  • off to MN…

    You know I love going to teach and meeting new quilters, but I have to admit that it is a lot of work to get ready…not only do I have to pack all the stuff, quilts kits, threads and teaching materials…I have to get myself ready and being away from home another 4 days, is…

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  • merry christmas

    ok…not yet… but I have my first three blocks sewn for the Heart to Hand BOM that the fabric finally arrived for…and we will be ready to send them this week yet…so if you were waiting they are coming…here are my blocks, they don’t look too christmassy yet.  I had to get these finished before…

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  • quilts from the madison show…

    I literally got to spend 15 minutes walking the show before it opened.  These quilts are inspiration for a lot of reasons, it may be the color schemes, the quilting ideas, the patterns themselves might give you a whole other idea for something else…but here are my photos from the show.  I may not photograph the…

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