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Happy Halloween

September 9, 2013 by Margaret Leave a Comment

When my children were little and I had to come up with costumes every year, Halloween was not my favorite holiday. Now that I have more time (ha, ha) and have

grand children it is back on my list of favorites. I have fun making new things

to decorate my house.

This past year with the help of the many hands of my quilt group, “Quilter’s Gone Wild”, I have made a much smaller version of

Amy Bradley’s “Happy Halloween Quilt” to hang on my wall.

I love it and I think my grand children will too.

Mary Ellen

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London Broil

Loaded Twice Baked Potatoes

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Halloween Night Quilt Pattern

September 3, 2013 by Margaret Leave a Comment

I’ve been working on this pattern off and on for a couple of years now. I’m excited to say it is done and available at our Etsy store. I love the Halloween. Not the scarey or candy part, but the colors…the start of the holiday season… the baking. Halloween starts fall for me. I’m excited I got the pattern ready in time for Halloween. This way you can get in done in time to decorate and there are so many cute fall and Halloween fabrics out right now. I hope you enjoy.

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Molasses Bars

Noah’s Ark

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Halloween Night Quilt

July 16, 2013 by Margaret 3 Comments

This is about the time of year that I start to think about what I have to decorate for the fall holidays with and what I might want to make new. Halloween is the first up on the fall schedule and is a lot of fun to decorate for. This is a favorite that I made a few years ago from the Fons and Porter Love of Quilting September/October 2005 issue I found in my mother’ never ending stash of quilt magazines. It is called Halloween Night and you can still purchase this issue at http://www.fonsandporter.com/issues/sep_oct_2005

The hanger, that you can’t see real well in the picture, along with many other wonderful wire holders is found at Ackfeld Manufacturing http://ackfeldwire.com/ .

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Camp Quilt

June 1, 2013 by Margaret Leave a Comment

Camp Quilt

I love the feeling of getting one more item off the stack of unfinished projects, finished. I have had a denim and corduroy quilt top made for, Oh, I don’t know, maybe 3 years. I just cut 6 1/2″ squares out of old jeans and my scraps or corduroy and randomly sewed them together. I basted the front and back together around the outside edges and them used my bent safety pins to to hold the center together. I put it on my trusty Q-Snap quilting frame (www.qsnap.com ) and proceeded to tie my new camp quilt.

I am not a great fan of tying quilts but since it is so heavy and I have chosen to back it with yummy fleece, I did. I didn’t even put any batting in it. It is queen size and will be perfect for our family camping trip later this summer.

I don’t have any place big enough to spread it out for a picture so I threw it in the rocking chair, giving it a taste of how it will be treated camping.

Mary Ellen

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Here is what’s new in our Etsy Shop

May 27, 2013 by Margaret 1 Comment

For my whole life, it seems like, I have been doing crafts and sewing. Making up my own pattern for this or that, if I couldn’t find one for sale retail. I made patterns for a lot of different things from Chaucer costumes in high school to wood and fabric dolls sitting on a wooden trike.
Years ago I started selling crafts because friends kept saying to me “you really should sell these” or “you should go into business”. Recently it has been “you really should make a pattern and sell it” so we (my girls and I) are. About, well less than a year ago we completed some patterns and started an Etsy Shop and here is what is new in our Etsy Shop.

Mary Ellen

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