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Cool thing!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1917578351/sewing-tour-2012?ref=ending_soon
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End-of-the-year review 2011
Totally stole this from opticalbinary, yet again.
1. What did you do in 2011 that you'd never done before?
Travel to another country.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I think I did? I don't generally make any beyond .
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes. One sister-in-law had triplets, and another had a son.
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Did lj change something?
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I totally went to Italy.
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Yesterday's top
I'm making a baby quilt that's not a Convergence! This is for the newest baby in the family, and since his closest older sibling got a convergence quilt 2.5 years ago, I wanted to make something different for him.
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Zuzu Birds
Yesterday I completed conservation + restoration work on a beautiful old linen wall-hanging from the 1900s.
Hand-woven, hand-dyed, hand-everything linen. There was a huge bite out of the lower left edge.
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Ist thoughts meme
Got this one from mutive. If you're interested in playing along, comment on this post and I will list five words I think of when I think of you. You then get to talk about these words and spread the love. (Or whatever.)
I got the following words: Quilts, intricate hair styles, traditional arts, gardening, and cute children.
1. Quilts
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Tovey's 1st Quilt
For homeschool yesterday we talked about relative sizes, color theory, number squares and related math. Tovey designed this quilt in the process, using 1" ordering swatches and scrap patches. Today I will sew it up for him. I'm happy about this.
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Speak Geek!
Speak Out With Your Geek Out is a celebration of all things geeky. I think we're all geeks, just about different stuff. My grandpa was a model train geek. My uncle's a Wiley E. Coyote geek. Apparently, lots of people are football geeks. I'm a role-playing, quilting, ElfQuest, National Geographic, anthropology/archaeology geek, with forays into the ( Read more... ) -
How'm I doin'? - a lists update
40 in 40 list
1 Take a bubble bath and read a book while soaking
2 Contact all my cousins and my parent's cousins, particularly Joe Lord and the South African Swedes
3 Do the 100 Push-ups program - last time I got to 75
4 Do the 200 Sit-ups program
5 Hang up the family pictures
6 Hike the ridge across from Poet's Seat with the family
7 Bike to Unity Park ( Read more... )
