Category: Quilt Related


  • farmer’s wife sampler month 1 blocks

    i am posting the blocks for those of you doing this bom..these are your blocks from January.

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  • more from Iowa..

    my blog can be a pain in my butt…i don’t know why these pics would not load in the last entry…

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  • packing for Eastern Iowa Heirloom quilter’s workshop and lecture/trunk show

    here is a peak at the quilts and wool things being packed for the trip on Sunday… Nick is worried about the weather, after his drive home from CA in all that mess…we escaped CA just in time…hope all our “friends” are doing OK… it was a great time at Road To California…I will be…

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  • more of my favorite quilts from the show…

    here are a few more quilts that got lost on the last entry…somewhere in blog land….

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  • Road to California….the quilt show…my favorites..

    I am out of “quilt show” shape…my legs felt like stuffed pounding sausages last night when i got to bed……..it must have been the cute shoes…today i wore the good shoes….Nick and I had dinner at the Panda Inn with Kaaren, Joyce and Jeanie…I think it was Jeanie..i was beat…a great bunch of California girls…

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  • one down, three more to go…

    nick and rudy Good Morning! This is your favorite midwest quilting insomniac live from CA!  I have no trouble getting my time in on the treadmill here.  I am still on CST zone and I am an early riser to begin with…Nick seems to have no trouble adjusting to time here.  Here are some photos…

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  • sunny california

    nick & i took the metrolink and subway to hollywood on tuesday.  it was a beautiful day as you can see by the photo here.  Yes! that is the sun in our eyes…you can’t tell but we are wearing shorts!  It felt so nice.  Notice the past tense.  It now if cooler and a little…

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  • scrap basket block#2

    Ok.. I am getting ready to leave to CA tomorrow…i have added a scrap basket block #2 to the blog below…the first is in the newsletter if you did not know about them.  We are using scraps to make them, so if you start making them you will make a quilt from what we already…

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  • christmas eve morning

    It’s way too early to be up, but i still have lots to do… here is a little glimpse of what’s been going on in my world the last couple of days… getting ready for Christmas… Well I hope you all have a great Christmas…I will for sure…I have to get my last chance grocery…

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  • winter wonderland…

    winter arrived in one big hurry here last week…we had 40 and 50 degree weather and then we were dumped 16″ of snow on Wednesday, with lots of wind…see the greenery on the house blowing in the wind…Nick got to play on his four wheeler, which died in the middle of the job and had…

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