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I started going through “A Midwife’s Tale” looking for pages that would be good to use in the quilt for my great-grandmother. As I suspected I got drawn in and started reading the book instead (this is why I ordered the extra copy!). As it turns out it was good timing because I have another […]

I’ve been away on vacation for a while, though I did manage to set the blog up to auto post in my absence. And I even brought some work with me. Here I am in a hammock working on some crocheting: While I was away I was finally able to think of a book to […]

I’m on vacation, actually I was on vacation last week as well but I managed to get one semi-meaningfull post done ahead of time before I left.  And I even managed to figure out how to schedule posts to publish on their own!  See you all next week!

So I’ve been trying to decide how to hang these things… For the photographs I’ve been using rare earth neodymium magnets (in part because I like saying neodymium). This is a great way to hang unframed prints; just stick some tacks in a wall, put the print up and place the magnets on the other […]

My cousin JoAnne remembered that my great grandmother Grace was fond of making crocheted doilies and that she often used the pineapple pattern. I got it in my head that it would be nice to add a crocheted border around her quilt so I looked up various pineapple patterns and started experimenting. I found a […]