And I gushed over my love of Pinterest. You have to check it out!

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Here is the couch carcass in it’s current state:

And The Husband showing off his handiwork in our Bonus Room:

So what do you think about swapping out one of the charity quilts (replacing it with a quilt I would make from blocks I already have) so that I can keep it?  Does that break the spirit of the challenge?  Leave me a comment to tell me what you think!

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$4.60 thrifting haul

Birthday booty (or is it bootie? I’m talking about pirate booty not butt booty):

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 Built By Wendy Dresses (Wendy Mullin) and

Fresh Quilting – Fearless Color, Design & Inspiration (Malka Dubrawsky). 

Both are awesome books!  Loved ‘em.  I am thinking of using the techniques in Wendy’s book to make The Girl a dress.  She asked for a new one a few days ago.

Hey – ‘So we added Chickens’ – you won the Owl Quilt kit giveaway!  I’ll be contacting you for your snail mail address.  Congratulations!!

I also talked about the kid-size charity quilt challenge that I am issuing myself.  You can read more about it here.

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My new quilting table!

He ended up buying it at Joann’s, which isn’t bad, but a local quilt shop lost the sale because they were rude to The Husband.  Sigh.  Quilt shop owners, take heart!  It isn’t only quilters that come into your shop to spend money.  The Husband will never shop at the lqs for me again and I will probably only do so in a pinch (or until my current gift certificates run out.)  How sad for them…that could be literally thousands of dollars lost over the years.  I am tentatively saving for a new machine and now I know where I definitely won’t be buying it.  Tsk tsk.  It wasn’t like he was just buying a handful of fat quarters.  He was willing to spend hundreds of dollars…and got snubbed!  Though being rude to a customer spending any amount of money is inexcusable.

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“True crafsmanship is achieved by a person, not a computer.  When I make a quilt, I know it is entirely my work — no stitch regulator, no computer-aided design — just me, my sewing machine, and the drive to do my best.” [italics are mine.]

What an interesting comment.  It is entirely your work and yet a sewing machine helped you make it.  Isn’t that work not achieved by a person?  I am quite struck by the irony of it.  Sherry’s quilt is beautiful and I am not calling into question her talent…just her definition of what is achieved by a person. 

Also in this episode - I signed up for an online class at Quilt University.  It is called Math for Quilters and is taught by Dena Craine. 

Check out the new podcast with my BFF Noelle – Craft.Love.Play!  You can download it at the site until we get it in to iTunes.

Oh my goodness – and what the heck happened with Project Runway????  Surely the judges could see that Mondo was the clear talent.  The Husband is quite upset with the outcome.  Even he thinks Mondo had it wrapped up.  In his opinion Gretchen didn’t win, Mondo flubbed it.  Oh well, there is always next season!!

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And the winner of the Quilter’s Newsletter subscription is: Collette!  Thank you everyone for entering, and congratulations to Collette. 

The AQS show at Paducah has the winners listed.  Go check out the list!  There are some beautiful quilts.

Would you like to win a $1000 Accuquilt shopping spree?  They are holding a contest.  Check out the details.

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with framing…

without framing…

And Jane – I love that you have a pic of yourself labeled as the ‘quilt geek.’  I have long considered myself a quilt nerd/geek.

And Gretchen’s beautiful finish:

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Challenge: MAY MAYHEM!!!

What is May Mayhem?  That is the title of my May challenge for listeners.  I have decided to challenge myself to perform a quilting or sewing activity every day for at least 15 minutes for all of May.  Would you like to join the fun?  Head on over to the Pioneer Quilter group at the Big Tent.  All you have to do to join is leave a reply to the forum topic entitled ‘May Mayhem’. 

Then  once a week I will post a new forum message for you to log your progress at.  I will have mini podcasts each week to discuss the progress and whatnot of the challenge.  Consider joining up today!

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Thank you to the many listeners leaving comments!  The Husband especially likes your feedback

In March I had the opportunity to see Patricia Knoechel of Quilt-in-a-day fame speak and give sewing demonstrations.  It was well worth the $3.00 entrance fee and the 1/2 day of vacation!  She was promoting her sister Eleanor’s book, ‘Quilt Blocks on American Barns’. I bought a few things and had a great time.  I am glad I took the time to go.

Hurray!  I finished The Boy’s quilt.  Sorry, we are having technical difficulties with the camera so no photos yet but I wanted to share the awesomest finish on the binding I have seen: the ladder stitch!  I heard someone mention it on a podcast – I am thinking Annie Smith but honestly it was months and months ago so I am not sure who it was.  So I googled it to find a tutorial.  I found this super-clear and easy to follow tutorial at Turning Turning.  Check it out. 

Head on over to Big Tent to join the Pioneer Quilter group!  You will need to join the main Quiltcast Supergroup before you can join Pioneer Quilter.  Signing up will get you entered in a drawing to win a year of Quilter’s Newsletter!  You can also enter by leaving a comment here and by leaving feedback on iTunes (and then notifying me of your feedback here.)

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