Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Happy Things!
Check out this great video! It will put a big smile on your face 🙂 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq6b9bMBXpg&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0]
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What’s Your Favorite Decorative Stitch?
It sometimes seems like I spend more time daydreaming over my decorative stitches than I do actually using them – and I use them a LOT! No matter what quilt I am making, I tend to come back to using a few stitches regularly. Here’s one of my favorites – if you looked closely you…
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Big Ruler is On Sale
Hi Quilters, if you have put off buying the big 20 1/2″ ruler but you are sure you are going to make another Crazy Shortcut Quilt, now’s the time to go get it. I paid almost $50 for mine, but they are on sale [online at JoAnn’s] for $19.99. I am thinking about buying two…
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Meet Katrina
She is a Crazy Shortcut Quilts teacher and she has some of her student’s quilt posted on her blog as well as a few other gorgeous quilts! Take a peek …..
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Need Help with your Sewing?
Meet Debbie (from Ohio) of Squiggly Twigs Designs! She emailed me (you know that I love email, right?) and she asked if she could use my video about chain piecing on her site. Of course I said yes, then immediately went to her blog to find out more about her. WOW! She is offering FREE…
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This is just fascinating
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Is it spring yet?
This is the second halibut boat I’ve seen leaving the bay today. It’s warm (for Seward) 37 degrees or so. The snow is melting and the bunnies are usually waiting for me on the doorstep when I get home from work. I am working on moving things around (spring fever?) and cleaning and sorting stuff.
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Awesome Amy!
My friend Amy has posted another beautiful Crazy Shortcut Quilt on her blog. Take a peek!
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Your Way
I just watched a video of a quilter who insisted a quilting technique is bad and wrong and doesn’t make any sense. BLEH. This “video quilt show wanna-be” has been quilting for just a couple of years, at best. I’ve been machine quilting, teaching, professionally quilting and been published for fifteen years – and I…
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Finishing Up
I spent some time sorting out fabrics and unfinished projects this morning. The unfinished projects pile is now larger than my “stash” pile of fabrics. That’s good about the fabrics, but now the projects are nagging me. I am a member of the “Stashbusters” group on Yahoo and every day I read about the quilters…
Got any book recommendations?