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Quilty Questionnaire

I’m up in the wee small hours this morning… In search of the draft of a different blog post, I found this one.  I wrote this in mid-August, apparently.  Might as well publish it, I guess!   – – – – – – – Something made me think about a feature of the good old days […]

Hurricane Sally

I don’t have much progress to report, thanks to a little thing called Hurricane Sally.   **This turned out to be a long account of the storm, for my own future reference more than anything else.  Skip to the dashed line if you’re only interested in crafty updates.** At first, it looked like we might get […]

Quilting the Hunter’s String Star Quilt

Since my last blog post, I’ve assembled the book blocks into two quilt tops.  For the first quilt top, I joined them in the plain old regular way, and for the second, I used the webbing method.  (This wasn’t intentional.  I simply didn’t remember to web them when I joined the first group.)   I webbed […]