Home Alone

I hope you are all having a lovely holiday season.  I am currently home alone, my family left me.  They loaded up their snowboards and skis and I don’t know what-all and headed for Dubuque to go to Sundown Mountain. (Shut up, we do too have mountains in Iowa.  Sort of.) I had thought about [...]

Holiday Concert 2009

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No pictures, because I forgot to take the camera.  Plus, we were at the far end fo the gym, andf rankly, the boys need haircuts so badly right now, their pictures would probably scare you. Oh wait, here’s one that shows how scary they are: (taken Monday morning, school was delayed 2 hours.) Anyway.  Holiday [...]

A few details about the Radiant Star

Some of this is a repeat for those of you that have seen my post about this quilt on MQR. I’m not necessarily answering specific questions that I’ve been asked: but these are some things that I’ve been thinking about and maybe you’ve been wondering about, and I thought I’d share. 1.  How much thread? [...]

Radiant Star Part 22: The Final product

By now, I think I’ve said enough.  If you have questions, post them or send me an e-mail and I can answer them in a separate post.

Radiant Star part 21: Auditioning bindings

I thought I knew what I was going to do with the binding, and even washed up some red for it (one of the reds from the stars), but unfortunately, it looked like crap.  I was either going to cut off part of that outside stripe: Or I could have covered up that outside stripe: [...]

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