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DK Quilt Guild: Autumn/Thanksgiving
I have never made a quilt with a Thanksgiving theme. I always get stuck at visions of turkeys drawn by children tracing their fingers and hands. It has never been an art event for me, coming between...
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IAN: Thursday 11/25/2021 Giving Thanks to the Crow
It got warm here on Monday after a few days of cold (for this area) weather. I opened the door and windows to try to bring some of the warm, fresh air into my cold house. I went on with my chores.As...
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IAN:Thursday 12/2/2021 Hello December!
I felt so sorry for that replica Terra Cotta Soldier. He was at P.F. Chang’s at Christmas in 2019. He looked very forlorn, not at all festive. But he cracked me up.As you can see by Itzl's concerned...
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IAN: Thursday: A Day to Make it Fit
They aren’t little kittens anymore. They both could fit in this box when we brought them home and now you see how it is. These two had a fine time resizing this cheap little box from Dollar Tree. Cats...
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IAN:Thursday 12/16/2021 Decorating, like the Beat, goes on.
Lil Zen sent me a picture of this tree Monday afternoon. I said “Sweet. No tree here”. Then she told me she had won it at school, complete with stand, lights, and silver plastic ornaments and her...
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DK Quilt Guild: Christmas and Other Sewing
Our good friend Pam sent me some fabric from her stash when she cleaned her studio last year. Among the treasures were two fabric sample collections, like the one shown below.like this but in...
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IAN: Thursday 12/23/2021 Next up, Christmas!
Most of the gifts are bought or made, none are wrapped. Most of the food is bought and waiting in the fridge, no prep work has been done. I played with my bff Margie today, promising myself I would...
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IAN: Monday 1/3/2022 Two Useful Hints for Everyday Living
I have two tips for making everyday life a little easier. Come below to find out.As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK,...
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IAN: Thursday 1/6/2022 It's Just Like Me to do This!
I mentioned this on the Sunday DK Quilt Guild diary but am recounting it here for your laughter. It is a typical art ah zen story.As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check...
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IAN: Thursday 1/13/2022 Meditate on Quilts
Spend a warm, peaceful day on the beach, watching the waves roll in and out and the sun play on the surface of the water. As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to...
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DK Quilt Guild: Bags for Two Ladies We Love and New Quilt Projects
We all know and love the Reed sisters. I know many of us have been following Sara’s surgery and Ann’s carpel tunnel problems. So come below for info about an on going fund raiser.DK Quilt Guild is a...
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IAN: Thursday 1/20/2022 The Bookcase Quilt in Progress
Late last year, my guild sisters and I all made at least one book strip to combine into a quilt like this as a gift for our guild president. I was intrigued. Then I saw a video and decided to make...
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IAN: Thursday 1/27/2022 Random Thoughts
I am a little absent minded right now. I can’t concentrate very long on anything. I am bored and restless, but unable to settle into a project or even watch tv. The zen tangle inspired drawing might...
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DK Quilt Guild: The Bookcase Continues
This picture show all the progress I have made so far. I have all the shelves sewn in and filled. Now I have to do the sides and the top and bottom. Come on in for a lot of pictures of the features....
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IAN: Thursday 2/3/2022 Open Thread
Moose took all the space in that little fabric box, eventually splitting it at the corners. But he slept well. I have not been sleeping all that well, but tonight, I am nodding off so I leave you all...
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IAN:Thursday 2/10/2022 Recipes
Here are a few of my fave recipes. I hope you find something here that you would like to try. If there are any problems with this diary, I had a terrible time with it freezing and not letting me...
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IAN: Thursday 2/17/2022 Calling Rose Stanley
For a couple of years before the pandemic, I would get robo calls for “Rose Stanley”. The voices that announced “This is a message for Rose Stanley.” changed over the years but the attached robo...
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DK Quilt Guild: Trading Spaces
Lil Zen is helping me take up the last of the carpeting that was here when we bought the house, in 1989! It is in the sewing room. It is a hideous orange but was under all my quilting storage racks,...
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IAN: Thursday 2/24/2022 Decluttering my way to Treasures
While cleaning out closets, I found lots of "lost” treasures that got packed away at one time or another. There is a lot more to find but I found my altered book called “Hubcaps and Anthrax” which I...
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IAN:Thursday 3/3/2022
Spring is around the corner and seeds will be in demand. I have no real ken with growing veggies, but I ordered this catalog a few times when I was doing collage paper art crafts. The art is...
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