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This is the time of year where holidays take over and it messes with my quilting. I’m sure you understand. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love the holidays. I get excited about all of it, BUT… Halloween comes first. It’s all about costumes, candy and kids. I feel more like I have to work…

I contend that quilting is a sport and quilters are athletes. Let me explain. I can still see Kobe Bryant when he was a young basketball player, loping and flying around a court like a young gazelle, bounding over other players heads, bouncing off obstacles and swishing the ball into the net. I can see…

From our earliest times, we are aware of our senses: sight, touch, hearing, smelling and tasting. We probably know or know of a person who has lost one or more of these senses. I know I am not the only person to wonder how it would be to lose a sense. Most all of us…

Wow, the challenge is finished for the year and, just Wow! Wasn’t that a great show of our guilds talent and imagination? Now that it’s over, I have been trying to think of all the things I learned. First, I CAN make a quilt entirely from my stash! This is a really good thing to…

I made my first quilt in the 80’s (the 1980’s, not in my 80’s), about the time I finished college and started my first professional job. It was the beginning of my quest for the perfect ¼” seam. Sounded easy, after all, I had been making my own clothes for 20 plus years. First problem,…