Happy 2016!! I read an interesting article last year about the fallacy of multi-tasking. You can get the gist by reading this article. My meditation this year is to focus on one project (p...
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Hello Everybody: I'm trying to figure out borders for the quilt on my design wall. It's actual one of 2 lone start quilts made from the same jelly roll from a hundred years ago. I am thinking a...
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How much thread do you use in a given month, quarter or year? Do you know? A few years ago I discovered was taught that the easiest way to choose a thread for piecing was to use a medium gray...
I have a deep and abiding love affair with Mary Ellen's Best Press . I first came to use it while taking a class at City Quilter . Since then, I use it for sewing and quilting and even ironin...
I was indoors all day due to the colossal snow that NJ got. Up to 16" in some spots. Yikes!! There was a state of emergency that included the closing of state offices...so I stayed home to s...
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I "loaned" my only bundt pan to Victoria and NEVER SAW IT AGAIN. She made good on replacing it with this pan from King Arthur Flour. I used The Pioneer Woman's Perfect Pound Cake recipe, fou...
One of the quilts in my queue is an asymetrical argyle pattern. I am trying to decide which is a more appropriate non-juvenile pattern for the eight year old recipient. Option 1 or O...
Here are two of the awesome Christmas gifts that I got. The first is a new stocking made by my mother! It is awesome and roomy and beautifully embroidered. Me and my st-ister! The other is f...
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Goodbye 2013! I love celebrating new years and seasons as they change because they offer an opportunity for reflection and renewal. As such, I am so excited to be ending 2013! It was an a...
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I became an Auntie again back in February and needed to step up and make Baby A a new quilt. I loved the idea of using striped reclaimed vintage sheets from several awesome Etsy vendors. Sha...
Just spell my name right! And what's with the reference to the weeds...geez...where's my publicist? ~ksp
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Last year one of the last good knit shops in my area is closed up shop. For several years now, I have not shopped at any shop, but I hated to see a Stix-n-Stitches go. I swung by there for t...
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What a Bear? You ever think of all of the phrases that use the word "bear"? ...grin and bear it...have one’s cross to bear...bear the burden of..bear the brunt of... My at-work BFF, Mich...
Beautiful...gorgeous heirloom tomatoes. Grown by me... ... My favorite use for a bucket. ~ksp
In 2002, I went through my cache of patterns and my stash of fabrics and I put together two Block of the Month "clubs". This one is for my brother. In true "my life is too busy" fashion, they...
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...diet Now I've spoken here at length about my (yarn/fabric, etc) stash diets...this time I am talking about a food diet.... I'm trying to do five meals a day and seriously up my exercise.�...
I grew a lot of heirloom tomatoes this year (like every year) and the tomato jewels of my garden are the Mortgage Lifter and the German Green tomatoes...(for slicing and pickling respectively) ...
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I recently harvested my greens...lawdy do I have a lot of greens. In this harvest there is: kale callaloo collards green cabbage red cabbage onions, shallots tomatoes and one cucumber I s...
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So, I have been gardening this season and it's been a real blast. There is a local-to-me community garden at Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center . My two-plot nirvana has been a blast to work...
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Honoring American military service with the Quilts of Valor .... Sam Adams Noble Pils and American beer . ~ksp
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Hello Beloveds: I am working on a quilt potentially to be entered into the 2013 NJ State Fair. It started out as scraps from another project. They are wonky Shoo Fly blocks a la Gwe...
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I dunno why I ask my friend's for their opinions about my impending shoe purchases...we have such differing opinions. Case in point...the following shoes purchases were knocked down one-by-one. ...
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Work got real busy and the weeds at my Oakeside community garden plots got way out of hand...I mean WAY out if hand. See photographic evidence here: Q: So what's a girl to do? A: Declar...
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