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Continue reading →: Progress: Friday
I have finally joined the second corner of the Eternal Queen-Stitch Flowers border on the "Virtue" sampler — oh, it's tedious sometimes, but I'm happy with the results! Strangely, I don't think that, area-wise, queen stitch takes much more time than cross stitch, but it sure feels like it. On…
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Continue reading →: “Which Quilt Block are You?”
Jacob's Ladder Quilt Block You're a traditional Jacob's Ladder block. You're a sentimental person who often recalls days gone by with fondness. You love historical quilts and enjoy visiting museums and antique shops, but at the end of the day, you can't wait to snuggle up under a quilt and…
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Continue reading →: Felted-Wool Ball Trivet à la Oak Park Skylight
While we were staying with David's aunt and uncle in Wisconsin last month, she apologized one evening at dinner that the potatoes had gotten cold rather quickly, and asked another time that when we went to Taliesin in a few days, we look in the gift shop and see if…
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Continue reading →: In Which We Spend Ten Days in Western Wisconsin and Northern Minnesota
We are just back from a trip to Wisconsin and Minnesota, to visit family in the former and old stomping-grounds in the latter. It was a good time, not too hot and muggy, though it was close a couple of times, and on one memorable afternoon, we raced a tornado…
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Continue reading →: Queen Stitch ad Infinitum
Carrying on with the Border of Endless Queen Stitches. They look quite pretty, once they're done. (Sigh!) The title of the previous post made me dig out The Serial Garden, wh. I had bought (without ever having read it myself) for the girls years ago on the recommendation of some…
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Continue reading →: Yes, But Today’s Tuesday
This band of the "Virtue" sampler is getting worked in stages, a few threads of each color at a time: first the light-green "arcade" and adjoining leaves as I come to them, then the very-dark green ditto, adding the stems and tendrils, then the purplish grapes, and lastly filling in…
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Continue reading →: A Quaker Pin Keep Ornament
I'm embarrassed to say that I've had these photos for a year and not written up the post — so here it is. I wanted to make something for my choir director — she quilts, and so I didn't want to quilt something for her just yet … and so…
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Continue reading →: Wilkommen!
I came across the Victorian Motto Shoppe some time ago, in my travels 'round the interwebs looking at samplers and threads, as one does, and I said to myself, "interesting!" — Laura Ingalls did some embroidery on perforated paper, mentioning designs and silks that were in the barrel that came…
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Continue reading →: “Dancers in Mourning” (A Bonus Adventure in the 1937 Club)
I had a bonus book for the 1937 Club since I managed to acquire — and read! — eight instead of just seven. The bonus is Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham, which I chose because the girls and I had watched and enjoyed the Peter Davison "Campion" series some…
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Continue reading →: “The Nutmeg Tree” (Adventures in the 1937 Club)
Margery Sharp is on my list of "writers I think I would probably like but haven't read yet," and so when I saw The Nutmeg Tree on the list of books published in 1937, I said to myself, "Well, the time is now!" The story begins in medias bathtub, as…
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