Author: lisabongean


  • Thursday- already?

    Ok..I really do not know where the days go…last weekend i attended Patsy’s Homestead Cabin Retreat in Hillpoint, WI. I met a lot of nice new people. If you ever need to get away this is the place. I love the food, and my Sweedish Birth, that were i slept…like a log, I might add……

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  • Hand Quilting

          Today  is way below 0 degrees here in WI with a wind chill factor of -45degrees, schools are closed and I am getting ready to go to a retreat this weekend.  So lots to do…My photo is a quilt that I am hand quilting.  Crazy Hearts by The Buggy Barn.  It is…

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  • New Year 2009

    Below is my first quilt of the year! I started it on New Years Eve and finished it today! I just love it.  I have not peiced this much in awhile.  I used 9 bobbins piecing it and it measures 106×106.  It will be for the new book coming out this spring!  I ran out…

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  • Sewing in sewing room

      Well my desk area is all back together and is messy as usual.  My sewing space in in the shape of an “L”.  In the short side of the “L” is this space where there is a 3×6 window and then my sewing machine is to the right of here.  I will show the…

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  • Sewing Studio

    Ok..i have not written in long time…i did a couple of entries and i think i had too much information and when i went to publish they were gone… so i was only a little mad. I will try a little one now that i am over it.  I have been gone a lot last…

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  • Vacation!

     

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  • Weekend in Chicago for Race…Is Kyle Bush going to win them all?

      Ok..I know most of you quilter’s don’t know what I am talking about…maybe you do…but Race days are good for sewing (Lisa) and napping (Nick). But we went to the race last weekend because it was a night race and we have never been to a night race…we have gone to all the Chicago…

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  • Summertime and the 4th of July

      I spent a wonderful weekend boating, grilling, dog sitting and sewing my blocks of the week together.  I love how it turned out.  I hope those of you doing it also like it… I know the block of the week is sort of a mystery quilt.  Hope you are not disappointed.  We went out…

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  • Strawberry Picking!

    Yesterday Carole and I went in search of some strawberries, which I pick every year.  The first farm we went to we were placed in a patch of mostly weeds and small berries that didn’t taste like anything.  After picking my $3.10 worth we decided we were going somewhere else….So we set out for a…

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  • Brigham City UT and Lee’s Summit MO

      I just arrived home last night from Lee’s Summit MO, where I taught 3 classes, punchneedle, wool applique and wool applique w/piecing on a little cotton tulip quilt.  There were a great bunch of teachers there as well.  See below….   I love teaching.  I meet a whole new bunch of people where ever…

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