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Had a jam packed week at the International Music Festival in Victoriaville Quebec (somehow in French the acronym comes out to FIMAV). My favorites this year were a group of female Mongolian throat singers working with two German accompanists and Colin Stetson who appeared three separate times the most impressive being leading a group performing […]

Trying the fancy Post ahead feature – hope it works! I’m actually up in Canada at the moment at a music festival. If everything works as planned this posted on Friday at 5:00pm. I managed to get my head and my bobbin assembly both on straight this week (bobbin assembly thanks to Paul’s help-he speaks […]

Both my sewing machine and my brain are currently seized up – my brain with a migraine and my sewing machine because I insisted on trying to use it while medicated with a migraine.  See you next week.

Not a new punk band, rather a description of my week. Started the week out at my mother-in-laws in Connecticut to attend the funeral of my husband’s aunt Gloria Outwater (Schrader). In addition to the strong women in my birth family I’ve had the pleasure of knowing a number of other strong (and strong-willed) women, […]

Busy week on the homestead.  Thought I’d shower you with the images that I got from Jay this week.  

I made the mistake of thinking it would be easy to set my sewing machine up for free motion quilting… Turns out the footer I needed wasn’t even available locally (I did at least have the sense to check online and realized this before I went out shopping (not that a trip to JoAnne Fabric […]

This was a saying that my Grandmother Halice was very fond of. Not that she had a lot of vices, she was a teetotaling Northern Baptist after all. She just kind of liked to have it both ways, but then don’t we all sometimes. This week I am guilty of not practicing the kind of […]

Most of the quilts I have done to date have actually been quilt tops, that is they have just been the equivalent of the top layer(s) of fabric of a quilt without the layer of batting or backing that makes up a traditional quilt. The last quilt I made involved the trapunto technique and therefor […]

More research and much more practice on appliquing quilt pieces later and I have learned the following: A number of different stitches are traditionally used with appliqué I have the best luck with the straight stitch If you have the tension too tight and your length set too short you can actually saw right through […]

I cut out all the pieces for Lib’s Bumble Bee quilt; 25 yellow squares, 20 yellow bodies and 40 brown wings. Then came my favorite part with a new project – problem solving. How was I going to figure out how to place them accurately on the square? Geometry to the rescue. I cut 4 […]