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I’m taking this as a Bye Week for the project spending time with family and friends (though I did get some good genealogical information from my sister Diana for future research). Have a good weekend, enjoy the leftovers and I’ll bend your ear next week.

My two grandmothers could not be more different from each other. Where Boo was content to stay put in the house next door to the one she grew up in my father’s mother Halice was a world traveler of sorts, making it as far as Greece. Where Boo was happy to be taken care of […]

A corollary of this is don’t take cold medicine and try to work with hot things or sharp objects. Hence I’ve not been doing much artwork the last few days, as I seem to be coming down with a rather nasty cold. So this week seems to be a good time to talk about memorial […]

Ok, to clarify things, I keep referring to these ‘things’ I’m making as ‘quilts’. I know they are not really quilts and to any quiltmakers out there among you this is probably annoying. A ‘real’ quilt has a front, (typically of cloth, yes) some sort of batting (typically cotton or wool) and a backing. That […]