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A New Quilt! (Finally!) My Cousin’s Baby Quilt

Published by beckymmoe on 08/28/2016

I finished a new quilt–just in time for the baby shower (yesterday) and before graduate school starts up again (tomorrow)! Most of the patterned rectangles are from pre-cut 2 1/2″ strips, and a very few (five fabrics, I think? No more than that, definitely) were from actual yardage or fat quarters. 2 1/2″ strips are commonly sold in collections of 40 strips each (usually an entire fabric collection’s worth) and are called jelly rolls. I love collecting them (so pretty! so many new fabrics all at once!), but am very slow to use them up. I have a tendency to…

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New Release Review! DEADLY STRAIN by Julie Rowe (Biological Response Team #1)

Published by beckymmoe on 08/07/2015

Edge-of-your-seat action and suspense! Title: Deadly Strain Book 1: Biological Response Team Series Author: Julie Rowe Publisher: Carina Press Publication Date: June 15, 2015 Pages: 260 ASIN: B00PQDB6LI Genre: Romantic Suspense Format: eBook, PDF   Book Description:  Book one of Biological Response Team Series Major Grace Samuels, a trauma surgeon deployed to Afghanistan, spends her life helping her fellow soldiers overcome disease and combat injuries. But her own wounds are harder to heal. Wracked with guilt over the death of a fellow soldier, she finds comfort in her only friend and appointed bodyguard, weapons sergeant Jacob “Sharp” Foster. Sharp feels more for Grace than a…

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Happy New Year! Hospice Quilt #2 Finished in 2014, and My Quilting Resolutions for 2015

Published by beckymmoe on 01/04/2015

Now that I’m gainfully employed again and only taking four classes instead of five (though right now I’m on winter break–whooo hooo!), I fully intend to get more quilting done this year. On the very last day of 2014, I finished my second Hospice t-shirt quilt (see #1 here):   It’s not the best quality picture–Mini Moe#2 took it with her phone and we were having lighting issues. It looks much better in person, I promise 😉 Since a few of the designs were quite wide–but not enough of them to make an entire wide column–I decided to make the…

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Quilting Craziness: Crazy Quilt Inspired Projects Past and Present

Published by beckymmoe on 08/06/2013

According to the Adirondack Museum’s site Common Threads: 150 Years of Adirondack Quilts and Comforters, crazy quilts get their name from the fact that their intricate piecing resembles “crazing”, the fine cracks that sometimes appear in ceramic glaze once it’s been fired. They go on to say that common folklore claims that constructing one would make the creator “go crazy”. If you look at some of the intricately pieced and painstakingly embroidered creations that have been made—they were all the rage during Victorian times especially—it doesn’t seem far off from the truth. Our previous trip to the Adirondacks included a…

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