What I read in 2009


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When I started to knit as an adult, I took a class where my wonderful teacher told me I knit way too tight. That I was tense and needed to relax ( Read more... )

One morning in July, my friends told me they were gettin hitched. The next morning I went to a courthouse with them to sign something that made me swear I knew them, and then they called up and made an appointment for the ceremony, which would be a month later. That was all well and good until I realized I wanted to make something for them, and ( Read more... )

I was walking down my street the first fall after I moved into my current apartment and found a lovely leaf on the sidewalk. I picked it up and brought it inside, looked up info about it, and then placed it inside a heavy book. Since then, I've only seen the leaf once (and I can't remember which book it's in), and I haven't really thought more ( Read more... )

One more call to join up in a quilting bee I mentioned the other day!


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Inauspicious beginning: New upstairs neighbor boys began moving in last night at 11:30pm. Passive-aggressive Mary knows they are boys because she spied them through the front door peephole ( Read more... )

July is my month in our virtual quilting bee, and I have been planning for it basically ever since we started talking about it back in January. I knew I wanted to do something with a lot of solids, and I was thinking about grays, but then I couldn't decide on what other colors to add. There were too many! Have you ever looked at all the Kona solids ( Read more... )

Since February, I've been working on the Threads Together Quilting Bee, along with wonderlandq and jennicakes and some other lovely ladies. It's been an awesome way to build up some new sewing techniques and work with fabrics and color combinations that I wouldn't normally choose myself. A new envelope of awesome shows up each month! These are the squares I've made so ( Read more... )

It was foggy and drizzly and cold, and they lost in extra innings, but I got to see the Mets in the new Citi Field (corporate name=blech) for the first time last night.


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Hello there! I've been internet-living by the old chestnut "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" for a little while. But I finally have something nice to say, WITH PICTURES! Of course, it is all about food. I will have nice things to say about quilts with pictures soon, too, but for now, feast your eyes and then figure ( Read more... )