January 9th, 2008
Even though you belong to online quilting and fabric art groups, most quilters enjoy getting together in person with a local group periodically. My daughter Beth finds these bi-weekly Friday gatherings a break in her schedule and a source of inspiration.
They share, they try different techniques, they enjoy refreshments, and they sometimes go on day […]
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December 22nd, 2007
The Home Biz Notes post, My Mother, The Country Grocer, won this round of the b5 Business Channel’s “Apprentice” type challenge, an ongoing 8-week contest, with a different version each week. This week we were to tell the prototype business owner, Kay, a success story.
I chose to relate the story of my mom, who influenced […]
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December 9th, 2007
I discovered J’s Quilting Blog, an interesting one with projects you might enjoy. Perhaps they’ll inspire you with your quilting and fabric art.
Warming Up consists of quilting with words! Joyce Marden added a little house midst a collection of winter words in a piece she has referred to as Winter Words.
I couldn’t keep on with such a […]
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September 8th, 2007
Sunday, September 9 commemmorates National Grandparents’ Day. How are you celebrating this occasion?
*Visit your grandparents.
*Invite your grandparents to your home.
*Take them out to eat.
*Send them a note, a card, a gift.
*Phone them if they live too far away.
*”Adopt” someone for a grandparent if yous live far away or are no longer living.
*Teach grandparent appreciation […]
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August 31st, 2007
It’s interesting to see that people in countries other than ours use quilting and fabric art to commemorate the lost in wartime. Quilts have long been associated with war in the United States. Either women made them to send to those on the war front, to sell for raising funds for war efforts, or to […]
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August 1st, 2007
Throughout the ages, needlework has sustained women (and sometimes men) as they work their way through grief…loss of a person close to them, a pet, a job, a home, or relocation to an area where they know no one. (At a grief seminar, I learned there are many types of grief, other than that of […]
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