tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32838394842585694602024-03-13T23:16:15.530-07:00QuiltingLotsmooredesignsClare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.comBlogger165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-76201273296018456722020-01-25T20:26:00.000-08:002020-02-02T17:38:16.964-08:00The New Decade has begun...with very little being done by me. Oh dear, I shall be hoping to get a lot better so there can be some progress made soon.<br />
Had a most fabulous visit to Wellington for the 5th birthday of Marceline Moore. A schoolgirl now, oh my! Where has this last five years gone I wonder, with so many major changes. We managed to navigate the 29 steps up to Richard & Kea's house, twice I might add, lol, but it was maybe a bit much. Should have used the brain and had a bigger rest gap between trips, but I was too keen to be out and about with the birthday girl. All is good and on the way back now just a bit more slowly than thought, and so no stitching is going on. Darn.! Am working on a solution with a friend who is going to give me a bit of a hand with the bigger, heavier stuff. Yay.<br />
Not much in the way of photos either folks, sorry about that, but haven't actually been anywhere to take them. I have done a little bit of cross stitch on a wee sampler I'm doing and enjoying too. Haven't cross stitched for years.<br />
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Thought I would join in the RSC at <a href="http://superscrappy.blogspot.com/p/rsc19.html">so scrappy</a> with the first colour being my favourite - green. Now there are only five days of the month to go... not a good start at all, but really keen to move out some of these scrap fabrics.<br />
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This is from springtime and now it's all dried up and looking a little sad for itself in the heat. We have a week of temperatures of around 32 C at the moment. Too hot for me and my garden, so on goes the air conditioning.<br />
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Hoping to make a start with my friend helping on getting the sashing triangles stitched onto the mystery hexagon quilt that I did last year. Then I will put a small frame and final border onto it. Looking forward to it getting finished at last as was hoping it would have happened last year, but sometimes things don't work out to plan do they?<br />
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The colours are certainly quite beautiful and very different for me to work with. I have the recipient of this quilt all worked out and it is going to be a surprise. Love that.<br />
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Well, I don't have a lot more to add today, but wanted to let you know what was happening in my world. I may even get a beanie started this week as the urge is beginning to grow - a lovely friend gave me some gorgeous autumnal coloured wool, so that made the fingers itch a little bit.<br />
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Thanks for popping in and I shall try to have some more exciting news for you next time,. Take care and keep on stitching,<br />
God bless and big hugs,<br />
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<br />Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-56506415933538644342019-12-29T17:53:00.000-08:002019-12-29T17:53:51.424-08:00Scrapping thru to the next Decade....lots of photosWell golly gosh, here we are once more at the end of another year, and this time it will also be the beginning of another decade. The mere thought of the year 2000 used to be such a far fetched fantasy, and yet now we are at the end of twenty years of this new millennium. Many things have happened, most of them lovely, a few bad, but life goes on, and God is always Good.<br />
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Here are a few last photos of various things and I have included some of my favourite quilts over the past decade. I hope you enjoy this little treat of photos.<br />
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If all else fails, knit a beanie. I have lost count of the number of hats I have made for my family and I do love making them. Hunting out some of the yummy hand dyed wool is half the fun. Thankfully they are still enjoyed by everyone. Keeps me out of mischief.<br />
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This year I decided not to hang up all the usual Christmas decorations and the tree as I didn't have enough energy for it. Instead I asked Kerry for a "stick" or two on the wall in our lounge for me to hang a few things on. This is what we ended up with and we have just loved it. Along the top are our Remembrance Christmas bells for those who are no longer with us, and then on the bottom row I chose some of my favourite ornaments to hang. It has been nice to be able to see them all at once, whereas on a tree you can only look at a part of the tree! Plus the bonus is the cats have ignored them!!!<br />
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What a tremendous achievement this was to get Danielle's quilt finished. I had started this while not well, so had to do some remaking, grrr, but it was worth it in the end to get a good finish.<br />
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This finish is my best of the Decade actually. I started to embroider this tray cloth when my eldest daughter was in her 10th year - 1982 to be precise. LOL. Needing only a small amount of crochet around the edges, the cloth languished in a chocolate box and was carted around the country as we moved! The year 2019 was it's crowning glory of becoming a finished object of admiration. It is now in Perth, Australia and said daughter Janeen loves it. That saying,....you know...." all good things come to those who wait...." Hehehe.<br />
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Hayley also finally received her finished quilt from Nana. These were a precious collection of fat quarters from a shop no longer in existence. They are really lovely together, and Hayley loves her quilt - thanks Hayley I hope you feel the hugs from Granddad and I when you snuggle under it.<br />
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On our way to the supermarket yesterday, we spotted this tree with the new pine cones out. They are the most loveliest shade of green before they dry out. Quite unusual to see these days in town.<br />
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I am really enjoying making the smaller baby quilts for our great grandchildren and other babies we meet along the way. Love using up scraps of pretty fabrics like this one for Nathalie. We were testing an embroidery machine in our wee shop so did a butterfly centre for it. It's actually now quilted and will have the binding stitched on over the next week or so. Also ready to baste Nathalie's new brother's quilt so they can both get them together.<br />
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Love this photo of some of our children and grandchildren, along with my sister, from Christmas 2018. Feel so blessed to have made it to Christmas 2019 and in such good shape, thank you Lord.<br />
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My dear sister Joy comes and visits me once a month and we do stitching together. We have a great time and it has brought us closer together since my ill health. We are supposed to be working on some quilt blocks each month, but we have had a little detour, lol. It will all come right in the end.<br />
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This quilt has now entered into the status of a WIP - work in progress. It has morphed from a pile of half yards into blocks and rows, hahaha. This is for Kea and I have had this fabric in the cupboard for a few years now. Nice easy pattern, so will not take long once I get my energy back. Looking forward to it now.<br />
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This is Suzy's quilt - a friend who lost everything in a house fire. It was made using Kaffe Fassett fabrics and a most simple pattern. The colours just resonate with sunshine and warmth.<br />
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This wee lap quilt goes back about 10-12 years I think when it became a finished centre. Then I decided to get it finished and found this lovely border fabric at our little local shop. Was perfect, and had just enough of the teal blue for the frame in my stash...love that, Gave it to my friend to practice her long arm quilting on and yay, it is now a finished quilt. That didn't take long did it?<br />
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Richard and Kea's new(ish) quilt<br />
It was started quite some years ago then put away for a rest. Oh and one of the loveliest things was the way the whole family worked on it . Mum, Dad, son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter.<br />
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Shala's sunflower quilt. Oh I love this quilt so much. It was fun to make and brings nothing but sunshine thoughts to your mind when you look at it. It is full of awesome memories of my trip to America and meeting my friend Barbara and her quilting buddies as well as Jackie her daughter. I had a better photo but cant find it. Here is a link to the post with the good photos <a href="https://lotsmooredesigns.blogspot.com/2019/10/let-sunflowers-shine.html">sunflower photo</a><br />
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A new photo of Travis among my Christmas gift plants. He thought he was missing out on something, LOL. Just as spoilt as ever of course<br />
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His big brother who is such a roamer. He goes to visit a lady (human) down the road and sometimes we don't see him again until night time when he demands more food. Typical cat.<br />
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Well I hope you didn't find this all too much. Thanks a heap if you hung in there and have read all the way down to here. I pray you have an awesome New Year and that you are blessed in ways you have never imagined before. Remember God is always Good and He can see the bigger picture. I keep forgetting that, lol.<br />
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Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-43424979994085026812019-12-07T22:37:00.000-08:002019-12-09T20:19:06.744-08:00Christmas outing ...Our Tuesdays girls had our yearly Christmas outing today. This time we headed west and went to Palmerston North, which is about 1 hour 40 mins from here. It's a bit longer these days because the gorge that you used to drive through has been closed for the last 18 months or so due to major slips. The cost of repairing it was too major and a new road is going to be developed. Unfortunately, it's going to take about another 6 years before that is completed!! We are way down on the list of priorities. This is the only access road from east to west within reasonable distance. In the meantime you have two options - the Saddle Road - steep, windy and hard work for the big trucks and is the most used one I think from north east traffic, and the windy, semi flatter one that goes from south east. We went over one way and back the other so did a complete circle, lol. That way we could manage to fit in at least two quilt shops.<br />
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On the quilting front, I have been plodding only, as still getting my speed back up from the chest infection - had to do another round of antibiotics, but never mind. I have finished quilting one of the baby quilts I made and bought some binding today to do the final installment. I had a lovely wee spend up this time - it is only once a year ladies! The excuse of Christmas that is, hehehe.<br />
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Most of these pieces I have in mind for small borders and binding on baby quilts. The charm pack will make a really lovely little baby quilt and I bought a lovely yellow/gold matching fabric to border and bind this one with. Sorry the photo is not very good but never mind. The dark fabrics along the top are Fq's for my eldest grandson's new "big person" quilt as his quilt was made when he was about 4 years old, lol.<br />
The aqua/green FQ is for a skirt I am making for a granddaughter. Gosh, I had better get busy.<br />
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Catch you later everyone. Hope you are not finding the Christmas rush too overwhelming. Thanks for stopping by.<br />
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I'm linking to Oh!Scrap <a href="http://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/">here</a> have a look at the gorgeous scrap quilt ideas.<br />
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<br />Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-40430976205160345772019-11-20T15:02:00.001-08:002019-11-20T15:02:30.027-08:00Quilting this little quiltMade this little one completely out of my leftovers from another baby quilt. It will be a donation quilt for the neonatal unit in one of our hospitals...not sure which one to send it to yet. Hoping to get another couple done before I send it off, It's good to be able to finish something quickly.<br />
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Managed to get some practice with my ruler foot on my domestic machine. Quite different action compared to my long arm machine I had to let go. Enjoying learning though, and the Janome 9450QCP is such a lovely machine to quilt with.<br />
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Thank for popping in. I have kept this post short as still recovering from catching dear husband's bugs. A chest infection takes a bit of working through for me, but getting there now. Plodding through quilting one of the other baby quilts I finished last post.<br />
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Take care everyone. Hugs and blessings to you all.<br />
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Clare<br />
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<br />Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-77934495595734981192019-11-05T16:50:00.000-08:002019-11-05T17:04:33.585-08:00Next quilt on the list please....I'm trying to keep this roll going after the Sunflower quilt. I managed to put two baby quilts together for Shala's newest grandchildren and enjoyed making something that was small and simple. The little pink quilt has an embroidered centre that I did while re-familiarising myself with the Janome MC500e Embroidery machine. It was totally from my stash. The boy's quilt is a little range of fabric I fell in love with in a quilt shop after Lucas was born. Couldn't resist of course.<br />
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Now I have Kea's Star Wars quilt up on my design wall. I'm using an incredibly simple pattern that was loaned to me called Bricks & Mortar by Red Mumma. Its perfect for this collection of fabrics that I bought a few years ago. Kea loves Star Wars if you haven't already guessed LOL.<br />
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Then I have a few photos of our spring garden. Loving seeing all the bearded Irises and Granny Bonnets coming out. Cant believe how tall my Granny Bonnets are - I'm assuming that's what everyone calls them - real name Aquilegia ? I see from a quick peek on Mr Google that they are also known as Columbines. Whatever you call them, I love them and some of mine are almost a metre (39 inches) tall this year.<br />
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That's all the talk this time and thanks for visiting me.<br />
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So there you have it. A reasonably short blog for me I have to say. I hope you manage to get in a lot more sewing in the weeks ahead with the Christmas rush already gaining steam. It's the one thing I intensely dislike about Christmas - Jesus is the reason as they say. But the commercialism of this season has become almost deafening (excuse my oxymoron). The pressure that is put on families that are already struggling is huge when the main message is one of love. I hope you manage to have a stress-free up to this celebration of all that is good and loving.<br />
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Well I did manage to chat on a bit more - it's a bit of a habit of mine lol. I think I find it difficult to get off my soapbox which seems to be permanently fixed to my feet!!! I wonder if it's because I'm so short, hehehe.<br />
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Oh dear, this time lovely people, I'm definitely signing off.<br />
May you all be greatly blessed and hugged lots.<br />
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Clare<br />
I'm linking to Oh!Scrap <a href="http://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/">here</a> lovely eye candy and scrap busting quilts.<br />
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<br />Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-63233490448480047472019-10-13T22:04:00.000-07:002019-10-13T22:08:46.542-07:00Let the Sunflowers shine...Way back in September 2011, I visited my online quilting friend in small town Kansas - Parsons to be exact. It was a very special time for me and I so enjoyed meeting Barbara and her daughter Jackie. Because of Parsons geographical position, it was easy to visit four states within a couple of hours - it sits near the crossroads of Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. Such fun!<br />
While I was there, Barbara asked me to give a talk to her local guild, then it became a few of the little outlying guilds until we ended up with 70 plus people. It was a lovely evening of showing off our fabulous New Zealand with an awesome DVD of Central Hawkes Bay and other lovely stuff. At the end of the evening, the President was thanking me and out came this positively massive bag of fabric!! Unbeknownst to me, the entry fee was a fat quarter of fabric. Oh my, I got all sorts of amazing fabric gifted to me and some pieces were way more generous. Most of it had to be posted home as we couldn't fit it all in my bag!!<br />
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The reason I have told you this big long story is that I had around 17 different sunflower fabrics in this amazing collection that I had not really touched in the last 8 years. However, my (step) daughter was going to turn 50 last month, and I had asked her a year or three before if she would like a quilt. As Shala is a very good sewist and has made a few quilts herself, I hadn't got around to asking. The answer was an emphatic Yes! Then it turned out that she loves sunflowers! Oh yes again!! Out came my stash and Shala chose basically all the fabric that had sunflowers on it. Well Shala's 50th birthday was looming up and I decided about July that I would have a go at getting it ready as her birthday gift for when she came down on 29th September to celebrate with us.<br />
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Here you go with a couple of photos and I am smiling so much you wouldn't believe it.<br />
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This is one of the two large blocks in the quilt. It's a beautiful piece of fabric and the sunflowers just glow.<br />
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Here is Shala with her quilt. It was very windy so the quilt would not co operate with laying flat. Never mind. I actually managed to quilt it myself as well, My awesome Tuesday girls pin basted it for me and I did an all over meander on it using a lovely So Fine mustard gold that blended beautifully with all the colours of the quilt. Looked good as it didn't need anything fancy as the sunflowers were the stars, and then my fabulous Tuesday girls helped again with stitch down the back of the binding,<br />
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I can't tell you how amazing getting this quilt finished on time made me feel, as I do have a bit of a struggle with my health issues. But God was so good to me and gave me the strength and tenacity to keep on and achieve something so filled with love for this very precious member of our family.<br />
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Now onto the next quilt...<br />
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Thank you for sharing my joy of this quilt and I'll look forward to showing you my next achievements. I hope you are all having a great time with your quilting and your families.<br />
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Many hug and blessings to you all,<br />
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linking with Oh! Scrap <a href="http://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/">here</a>Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-19070161303611021842019-08-15T22:29:00.000-07:002019-08-16T16:48:43.790-07:00It's officially finished!! lots of photosI said to myself - I'm not posting again until Danielle's quilt is finished because you would all be sick of getting updates showing so little progress. Well, it is done and dusted and as I type it is winging its way up to Danielle in Te Awamutu. Our youngest son and his family are going up to visit his siblings up that way, so he is loaded down with the quilt and five beanies for delivery!!!<br />
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I'm sure most of you think I have fallen off the planet as I didn't realise it had been quite so long since I last posted. Hmmm, been busy stitching and hanging on to my health. But enough of that, I have a few photos to share and I hope you enjoy them.<br />
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The Beanie production line, lol.<br />
I did have five of them, but the yellow one ended up being given to a dear friend and I am knitting another one for that dear DIL.<br />
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Love that my family like to wear them and that it is something else I can make when I'm not up to quilting.<br />
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The finished quilt for Danielle. I am so very pleased with how it has come out. My dear friend Catherine made a fantastic job of quilting it for me with an edge to edge pattern that let the colours speak for themselves.<br />
It is sideways in the photos as it was too long to hold up length-ways and the grounds was still wet from the big frost we had this morning.<br />
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I found this fantastic extra wide backing fabric at Counting Stitches in Hastings., It was the absolute perfect match for this quilt.<br />
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This shows a little more of the dark and light in the quilt and the flowers in my late winter garden. The bees have been making the most of the wall flowers that seem to flower for ever and smell beautiful.<br />
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This is my incredible UFO finish. I started this embroidery cloth when my eldest daughter was 10. She received it at the beginning of June and Janeen is now 47 years old!!!! only too 37 years to complete. The most embarrassing thing is it only needed a few inches of the crochet edging to be finished for most of the last 10 years or so. Hehehe<br />
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My mystery blocks up until May. Had been enjoying them but had some troubles with June/July blocks and not sure what is causing it. These blocks come pre-cut and I think there may be some small discrepancies in cutting. Not ruling out operator error though. Lol<br />
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A small baby quilt to be sent to the preemie babies unit. I used some left over strips from another quilt I had made and added a top and bottom border to make it to size. Totally from my stash - yippee. Halfway through the quilting of it and hope to finish off over the weekend,<br />
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Finally, a parade of elephants from the Tuesday Girls. These animals are so beautiful I am almost tempted to start one, But I have not finished enough UFO's yet and need a project like this like I need another whole in my head. Hehehe.<br />
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One day, as most of us quilters say about those projects on our wish lists.<br />
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I hope you have enjoyed your catch up. I am currently working mostly on a sunflower quilt for our eldest daughter. Not sure how long that's going to take but here's hoping not as long as Danielle's seemed to take.<br />
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Our weather is supposed to be quite horrible over the weekend and it has already become quite cold. Big snow falls down in the South Island and we do have snow up on our ranges. This is why we have had two boomer frosts. Rain however is forecast and we actually have not had very much rain at all and it would be most welcome. It is also an excellent reason for being in your quilting room!!<br />
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Bye for now and take care. May you feel blessed in you have and do.<br />
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I'm linking to Cynthia at Oh! Scrap<br />
and Sarah at Confessions of a Scrap Addict. Click <a href="https://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2019/08/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-call-for-help-and.html">here</a> to visit Sarah. It's worth the visit.<br />
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<br />Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-42834264230101158162019-04-24T20:43:00.000-07:002019-04-25T18:17:50.997-07:00Plodding awayAt getting things finished, but then that is nothing new. I think it is everyday life for a quilter, don't you? Mind you, we do all work at different speeds, and some of us are (hopefully) like me, stuck in low gear. Hehehe.<br />
The progress on Danielle's quilt is good. I have sewn all the rows now and merely need to stitch last five rows into the final section. Stitch all the sections together and we are up to the frame and border. It sounds (and feels) so good to be able to talk about the border as if it is becoming close to a finished quilt top. Yay I have to say that I like this quilt more as each section goes on. The busyness of the smaller HST's would be quite overwhelming in a large quilt for me, but it may be because of the darker colours I am using.<br />
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This is the hat I was talking about in my last post. It came through my error ridden blocking process with no problems.<br />
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Richard loves it as he is very kind to his Mum.<br />
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Keeping it brief today. Off to try and cook some dinner for us. That will be interesting. lol<br />
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Hugs and blessings to you all.<br />
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<br />Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-73955641687618825622019-03-22T20:31:00.000-07:002019-03-24T17:52:53.154-07:00Scrappy WeekI have been tootling away at some more scrappy hearts and hope to have about 20 to send away on Monday. The response has been overwhelming. Thanks everyone.<br />
I finished another hat this week. This one was for my friend Helen, and it was a lovely pattern called <i>Irma</i> by Aneta Gasiorowka, whose Ravelry username is agasi. It took a little bit of brain work for me to get the hang of it and I was actually amazed that I managed it. I've never unpicked so much before without chucking it in the corner and leaving it there forever. However, instead of said throwing out the toys from the cot, I did persevere and it is well worth it. I even washed and blocked it, something I have never done before. It was interesting...I watched a clip on YouTube and the knitter suggested using a partly inflated balloon to put the hat on to dry. What a brilliant idea I thought, and after much scrounging Kerry and I managed to find a balloon that was not perished. Of course Kerry had to blow it up, as I don't have any puff these days (darn). Next problem - neither of us could tie the blooming thing!!! So we tied it tightly with a bit of fabric strip. Later that evening said green balloon had become deflated instead of inflated. "Nec minute" we found a vase that was shaped like a head. Popped hat on and went to bed. Oh dear, the ribbing had ended up on the widest part of the vase and was awfully stretched... Back to the basin to soak and this time, I laid it flat. After all this I forgot to take a picture. This photo is of the one I did just before that for GD Marcy.<br />
Thank you Aneta for such a lovely pattern.<br />
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Now my photos don't want to behave and load on my computer so I'm afraid this is all you can have today. I am working on finishing my next two hexagon blocks in my mystery quilt and need to get a move on before April's arrive. Trying hard to keep up with this one. More importantly, need to get the next section done on Danielle's quilt.<br />
Here's a couple of older quilts just because...enjoy.<br />
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The quilt above is one of the very early quilts when I began doing long arm custom quilting and free motion.<br />
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The second one is the quilt I made for my granddaughter Olivia. It was such a happy animal quilt.<br />
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Hope life is going well for you all and that you are enjoying some family time over the weekend.<br />
Hugs and blessings to you all<br />
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Clare<br />
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I'm Linking up to Cynthia's Oh Scrap <a href="http://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/">here</a> and hope you enjoy your visit.<br />
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<br />Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-49677465095091282462019-03-19T21:59:00.000-07:002019-03-20T00:56:45.192-07:00#this is not usMy heart is still very heavy as I pen this quick post. The tragedy that unfolded in our country on Friday 15th March has left a huge impact on our people. 50 precious New Zealanders lost their lives when cowardly shot down while praying in their Mosques while they were praying. These people should have been safe We have come together in ways never seen before and made us look long and hard at our own attitudes to races and religions. It will take a long time for New Zealanders to process this.<br />
I really liked what a Rabbi (on a panel of a Christian, Muslim and Jew) said in an interview on television discussing this event and the question of why do we have these white extremist views. His point was (and forgive me for not remembering his name) that "when God made Adam and Eve, He made them human. The Jews were not around for another 2000 years." Such a good point - human!<br />
I continue to pray for all affected by this terrible tragedy.<br />
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There are, of course, many quilters doing what I am at the moment as we unite to make healing heart quilts. This is the start of my offering.<br />
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It is so wonderful to see the community of quilters working together to do what they can to help the families suffering as a result of last week's terrible events in Christchurch.<br />
Two of our fellow shops have volunteered and are making a massive effort to provide quilts for the families. Helen of Angels in Gumboots is co-ordinating heart blocks. These can be appliqued or pieced. There is a pattern in the kiwiquilters Facebook group.They are looking for green hearts on a white background. Here is some information from Helen<br />
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<strong><em>IMPORTANT NOTE: I've been asked to pass on that our hearts need to avoid the colour red, prints with animals on (my bad with my applique heart!) and prints with people/faces/figures.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>EDIT: pattern has been uploaded into Files and a picture attached. I love how much aroha there is in this group! So excited to see what we create together. For those wanting to applique, just make sure the background block is 6.5 inches unfinished square and your heart is at least 1/2" from all <span class="m_4491797993191754051text_exposed_show">edges.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Address to post to me: Helen Thomas, Angels in Gumboots, 101 Cambridge Avenue, Ashhurst 4810. Contact email: <a href="mailto:angelsingumboots@gmail.com" style="color: #656565; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">angelsingumboots@gmail.com</a>.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>May I make a suggestion RE the Healing Hearts quilts? I have put my hand up to help coordinate and organise Healing Hearts quilts.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>I do know the colour white and green both mean a lot to Muslims - I am thinking we focus on white backgrounds with green hearts.</em></strong></div>
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Busy Bee quilt shop in Rongotai have offered to quilt and bind 100 quilts. Our wholesalers have offered the backing and batting free of charge.<br />
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Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-14221679694767932872019-03-09T19:46:00.001-08:002019-03-12T05:22:22.625-07:00Scrapping away stillI'm not going to talk about the fact that it's already well into March. Much better to talk about fabric and projects and everything else except how fast time flies. That's what you get when you look in the mirror I told myself. Just don't look and you wont have to think about it. LOL.<br />
In my attempt to reduce my stash, I may have been a little successful since I spoke with you last, because at least I haven't bought any new fabric!! Progress has been made on a number of projects, and I even dug out some (very) old UFO's and did a little on them. I had to pinch myself a little at this point. Hahaha.<br />
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The photo to the right shows that I have now laid out the fourth section of Danielle's quilt ready to be sewn up.<br />
Section three has two blocks up on the design wall and the other two have be stitch into rows and just need making into the 2 remaining blocks.<br />
That will just leave the fifth and final section to be done. Woohoo as they say, sounds like it's almost getting there. Must not speak too soon just in case. LOL.<br />
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I'm trying to do some each day, but it can be a bit of a struggle some days. All in good time. The next three photos are of some eye candy from the Tuesday Girls who have been very busy of late.<br />
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This is Lorrie's lovely Christmas Redwork wall hanging. It is really pretty.<br />
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Lorraine is doing a Boston Commons using hexagons. These are quite large hexagons for Lorraine. Often she is working with little tiny things that can barely be held in one's hand. Mad, I think, LOL. It's certainly going to be a beautiful quilt. The fabrics are all French General scraps that Lorraine was gifted.<br />
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Not sure if I have already mentioned this quilt before but this is Lynn's Pies and Tarts quilt that looks fabulous. It was interesting choosing the correct binding colour and I found a delicious rusty red in my stash that was perfect.<br />
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I have gifted my pile of completed pies and tarts and the cut out pieces and fabric etc to a quilter who needed it a lot more than I did. I had to take a look at how important this quilt was to me in relation to my health issues and decided I did not want to continue with it. Feeling really happy with that decision, and it has allowed me to continue on with other projects that need to be finished.<br />
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This is the first two blocks in the mystery quilt I am doing with Quilters Lane in Masterton. I chose the Dear Stella colour way as a change for me and just love it so far. The bestest thing though is it comes already cut. I just have to sit and stitch it up together. But guess what... I still only just got them done before the next blocks arrived. What.... that's just sad, hahaha. Mind you, I had to pull out a few rusty old drawers in the filing cabinet of my brain to remember how to get these stitched up properly. (whispering - I had to unpick a LOT...lol) To change the subject....<br />
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This little quilt appeared in post <a href="https://lotsmooredesigns.blogspot.com/2018/10/finished-sanjou-mini-quilt.html">here</a> a while back and a couple of friends had suggested I make it bigger. I'm never too sure what to do with little quilts, and the fabrics were not suitable to donate it as a baby quilt. So I have added on a small frame and another floral border so far. Have another floral border but with different flowers cut from the same striped fabric so will put in another lighter frame and put that one on too I think. Then I will have to decide what to do with it from there as it will probably end up neither one thing or the other. Might have to ask if anyone would like it and send it off somewhere to live happily ever after!!<br />
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So that's about it here for now, thanks a heap for popping in and reading about my crazy life. My health has been great the past two to three weeks and New Zealand has been sitting under this ginormous high and the air pressure has been so good for me. Now it's back to reality as this dratted little low came by and moved it out the road. Okay, I know we all needed the rain, but gosh it was fun while it lasted. Ignoring the fact that winter is definitely coming with the cooler autumn nights and mornings we are now having and realising the other side of the world is very happy about that. Oh well. See you again soon.<br />
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Hugs and blessings<br />
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I have linked to Confessions of a Scrap Quilter <a href="http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2019/03/i-may-have-scrap-problem-welcoming-march.html">here</a> enjoy your visit.<br />
Also linked to Oh! Scrap <a href="http://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/">here</a> for even more scrappy goodness.<br />
<br />Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-8667085052867842352019-02-03T20:07:00.000-08:002019-02-03T20:07:18.552-08:00Some Progress in 2019Okay, January has already disappeared off my calendar and I didn't get to post. I can see that this year is going to go even faster than the last, but I put some of that down to less time available for me to do "stuff" in. Health has leveled out a little and we are managing to get back to our sewing machine so that is the most important thing.<br />
Here are some photos of what I have managed to accomplish so far...<br />
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This is my block for January for the BOM running in the Kiwiquilters Facebook group. It is a large block - around 22 inches.<br />
Now to get onto February's block. I'm trying to do it all from scraps in an effort to make a small dent in said pile.<br />
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In an effort to keep control of those wonderful bits of fabric called scraps I have got hold of this four tiered basket trolley. The goal is to have all the colours in their own little spot so no need to rummage through endless bags and drawers to find them. Let's see how well that works??<br />
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You may remember this - Danielle's quilt from Amanda Jean Nybergs book. Have got two blocks assembled in the next size with the remaining four all sorted ready to be stitched, Hoping this will be finished this week, then it will be onto the third size. There's five in all.<br />
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My production line, lol. <br />
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That's it for now. Thought maybe I would be better at this if I kept the posts nice and short and then could do them more frequently? We'll see.<br />
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Oh, did I tell you that my first block arrived today for my new BOM from Sheila at Quilters Lane in Masterton? It's a mystery quilt and we could choose from 10 different fabrics. I have chosen Dear Stella and am very excited. Only done one other mystery quilt and I enjoyed it. You can check out Sheila's shop <a href="https://www.quilterslane.co.nz/mystery-quilt.htm">here</a> and see for yourself. Well worth a visit.<br />
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I'll catch you all later and thanks heaps for stopping by. <br />
Hugs and blessings to you all.<br />
Clare<br />
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I'm linking to Cynthia's <a href="http://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/">here</a> for some more eye candy. <br />
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<br />Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-35940001250939097292018-12-30T19:23:00.000-08:002018-12-30T20:17:53.004-08:00The end of 2018Thought I had better try and catch up with you all before the year is gone. November/December have been hard months for me health wise and I got back home for Christmas on Christmas Eve Day. Yay, thank you Lord. Spent Christmas with some of our family. Photos coming.<br />
Might not be a lot more posts in 2019, we will see what progress I can make. However, there is still a strong urge to kill that stash, so I'm hoping to do a little more stitching yet. Hoping to infect (lol) one of my granddaughters with the bug as much interest is being shown.<br />
Have started to assemble Danielle's quilt at last and did get three blocks worth together before crashing. Today is when I'm feeling like stitching again, yippee.... so onwards and upwards people.<br />
Now for some photos to finish the year off.<br />
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This is Meg from our Tuesday Group who does the most amazing handwork. Sorry about the light behind the quilt. Meg has also done numerous hexagon quilts of all types.<br />
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This is our family at home between Christmas and New Year. My daughter Rebecca is standing in front of her 6' 5" son Bradley along with her three beautiful daughters. My eldest son Daryll is sitting beside me and my sister Joy has my grandson Hamish on her knee. Love this photo except by beautiful daughter in law Dayn is taking the photo.<br />
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On the way home Rebecca met up with her youngest brother Richard, wife Kea and daughter Marcy in Napier. Glad they had a chance to catch up as they live in opposite ends of the country.<br />
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Suzy's quilt got finished before Christmas. She was so completely blown away that it was hers to take away and have. I must acknowledge with such grateful thanks my helper Lynn Murphy for making and stitching on the binding for me.<br />
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Forgot to take a close up of the quilting which was a beautiful big daisy pattern. Long arm quilter was Gael Byrne from the Quilting Shed in Hastings. Made an awesome job and loved the way she put the red thread front and back. It gave a fabulous two sided effect, and I jolly well forgot to take a photo!!!!<br />
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This is one of my favourite finishes for 2018. This quilt was totally made from scraps and stash - oops, I forgot - I bought the green sashing as lack of large pieces of stash. It was quilted by my friend Lorraine Baker of Masterton who is now an accomplished long arm quilter. The centre blocks are made from leftover bits of WOF that I couldn't quite bear to throw away as was about an inch and a half wide. LOL. What a funny little lady I am, and loving it!!!<br />
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That's all folks for this year of 2018. One of so many ups and downs for me I can truly say. For once I am very surprised at how many quilts I managed to finish and give away to family and friends. My stash (old) did reduce by quite a substantial amount, but alas and alack, I fear the new fabric section may have grown a little,. Hehehehe. It just means I will need to try and make even more quilts in 2019.<br />
God has blessed our family constantly and I can say with all my heart that He answers those prayers we ask of Him. Sometimes it is in His way and time, other times we get what we asked for. He is always good and God is love. May your 2019 be full to the brim of love and laughter. Love will always overcome dark.<br />
Thank you for coming to visit my blog and I hope to see you again next year.<br />
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Hugs and blessings<br />
Clare<br />
I'm linking up with Oh Scrap <a href="http://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/">here</a> take a look and enjoy some eye candy.Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-51807332558030136132018-11-13T16:44:00.000-08:002018-11-18T17:57:45.652-08:00Almost there...I am taking a short break from trimming the very last of the HSTs for Danielle's quilt. Soooo pleased to have finally reached this point and that assembly can now begin.<br />
I was a little delayed as I stitched up this quilt for someone we know who lost their house in a fire. Kerry dropped it off to the LA quilter this morning. A little big for me to handle these days.<br />
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It was made using two roll ups of Kaffe Fassett fabrics that I had in my stash - bought the 2nd one by accident, and is lovely and sunny and bright. I will show you again when it comes back from being quilted, but very happy with it. Nice and quick to make and the pattern is from a Layer Cake tutorial from The Missouri Star Quilt Company.<br />
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Our Tuesday girls had a couple of beautiful finishes too. Here is Lois with her fabulous Cat in the Garden quilt she has made for one of her granddaughters. Awesome job Lois.<br />
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The colour choices are gorgeous and don't those cats looks fabulous. Well done Lois. Quilted it herself too, such a champion.<br />
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Lynn was our other star yesterday.<br />
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Lynn does beautiful handwork and this table runner is so lovely. The colours are really nice and the ric rac around the edges makes for an awesome finish. Clever lady.<br />
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That's it for now folks. Off to trim up those last few triangles. Hopefully the next picture will be of the progress of assembling this quilt.<br />
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I'm linking up with Confessions of a Scrap Quilter <a href="http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2018/11/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-scrappy-squirrel.html">here</a> for Can I get A Whoop Whoop! Yay, go visit the eye candy.<br />
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Hugs and blessings to you all.<br />
Clare<br />
<br />Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-17054308471810534882018-10-26T18:44:00.002-07:002018-10-26T18:46:33.497-07:00Finished Sajou Mini quiltI have finished my first sewalong with Lori from Humble Quilts. Here is a link for you to visit - <a href="http://humblequilts.blogspot.com/">Humble Quilts</a> and I'm sure you will enjoy a visit to her blog. Two of my friends have said I should make this bigger, but then it turns into a WIP and I'm not sure I want that. Much nice to say it is finished. Hoping to quilt it over the weekend to be properly finished of course. What do you think?<br />
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Best of all, it has all come from my stash. Making some inroads here (she says positively). LOL. Have a great weekend everybody.<br />
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Clare<br />
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I'm linking to Humble Quilts <a href="http://humblequilts.blogspot.com/">Here</a> as well.<br />
<br />Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-34366924563126065742018-10-15T21:45:00.000-07:002018-10-15T21:47:45.102-07:00Progress has been made...lots of photosMy friend Lorraine said "your blog's been a bit quiet lately." Oh dear, she is right, I have been so busy concentrating on getting stuff done, that the energy required for posting has not been there.<br />
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On top of all that I keep forgetting to take photos of finished quilts!!! Hate that. Here are a few photos of what I have been up to lately.<br />
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These first three are from the Master Guild quilt shown held in Carterton last month.<br />
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This is the guest exhibitor - none other than said Lorraine Baker who commented on my lack of posting! Revenge is sweet! LOL<br />
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All joking aside, Lorraine's quilts are stunning and her hand quilting has won at international level.<br />
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This is one of a display from a class the guild had taken. Very beautiful hydrangeas. Amazing work.<br />
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I am onto the very last size of HST's required for this quilt. Seems to have been a long time in the making, but good things come to those who wait. So they say anyway.<br />
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This was my Mystery Quilt that I made from the quilt along run at From My Carolina Home. Enjoyed it immensely and the quilt is now finished and is being gifted to a friend who is going through cancer treatment. It has been signed by lots of people at our church and he will received it shortly. Again forgot photo, but hope to get one of the finished quilt when given to him.<br />
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This is Noah's quilt. He has become the big brother to two twin brothers. I made the twins quilts so figured Noah should not miss out on the fun.<br />
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This quilt has also been gifted and no photo taken. Hmm. This came out so pretty.<br />
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This was one of my favourite quilts from the Master Guild show. Just loved it.<br />
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In the making for lady who has had her house burnt down. Beautiful Kaffe Fassett fabrics that generate warmth.<br />
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The baby quilts for the twins. One has boats and the other has fishes. One has Seahorses, the other has Starfish. The same but different, just like them.<br />
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So I have managed to make some progress on Danielle's quilt which only needs the 5.5 inch and 3.5 inch HST's made. Unfortunately, because I have changed the initial direction for the fabrics in this quilt I felt there was not enough variety to cut the last of these out. It meant a trip to the LQS (sad), but it also meant I needed to go to the furthermost away one to get a good selection of batiks. Oh well, my sister was here to stay for the week, so we had a wonderful day out.<br />
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There are lots of photos in this post to make up for lost time. I hope you enjoy them.<br />
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It hasn't grown much, but I did put the pale blue border on, and now have some idea of what I am going to do next in regards to colour.<br />
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This one is not long back from my friend Lorraine who is learning to do custom quilting, and doing a fabulous job. I shall show you a better photo once it is all bound. Very happy with how this quilt has come out and it all started with some tiny ends from some WOF's left over from my shop. LOL.<br />
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A sneak peek also at the mystery quilt I did through My Carolina Home's quilt along and it was called Square Dance. I will have two finished quilts to show you in the next blog. Wow.<br />
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Aren't they beautiful. it was so hard to choose. Hopefully I will get back to cutting these out next week.<br />
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This is the reason I haven't finished my HST's. Been working on these three little quilts for a few weeks now. A friend of my DIL gave us a lovely electric lazy boy chair that was almost new. As she was expecting twin boys, I decided to make baby quilts plus one for the older sibling Noah who is 3 years old.<br />
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This one has the binding sewn down on the front and tomorrow I will get it stitched down to the back. I got these two quilts out of a 5 inch wide roll up plus some extras from stash. Managed to make two different looking quilts even though the style and colours are very much the same.<br />
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This is Noah's one and it is slightly bigger, as it should be for the twins big brother. This was a little collection that I had in my stash for some time and I added a few strips from another roll up. Had to do some interesting piecing to get enough picture blocks...lol.<br />
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And to finish off these are the beautiful flowers my daughter and her family in Perth, Australia sent me for my birthday last week. They have lasted extremely well and were certainly very beautiful.<br />
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As per usual, I shall try not to be so long in coming back, but for a few weeks there, I had nothing to report to you.<br />
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I hope your weather is good wherever you are. We have had heaps of rain these past few days, which is most unusual for us and quite welcome really. It will give our farmers a good start to spring and summer.<br />
The garden is just starting to burst into life with my beautiful deep yellow freesias almost outdoing themselves in the gloomy weather. I shall have some pictures for the next post. Take care of yourselves and have a fabulous day.<br />
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<br />Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-32416130006335227092018-07-22T19:34:00.000-07:002018-07-22T19:34:52.181-07:00A scrap of this and a scrap of that...Is all I have managed to get done since my last blog. It has taken longer than I thought to get back my energy. However, we are getting somewhere now. I have finally managed to sew the mystery top together and have chosen the frame and border fabric.<br />
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And now onto the large sized HST's for Danielle's quilt. Got all the little ones finally finished - 350 of them. Now only the medium and extra large ones left to do. Hopefully these will go a lot faster being bigger and less of them. Gosh I'm hoping to make some progress soon.<br />
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That's me for today. Hope you all have an awesome week. Thanks for stopping in. I am linking to Cynthia at Oh! Scrap and you can click <a href="http://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/">here</a> and enjoy some eye candy from lots of contributors.<br />
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Hugs and blessings,<br />
Clare<br />
<br />Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-78950302974594568362018-07-03T20:50:00.000-07:002018-07-04T16:46:38.825-07:00A Winter rose...What a lovely surprise to have Kerry bring in this lovely wee collection of flowers from my 25yr "Clair Matin" rose. It's the middle of winter and we have had some boomer frosts this past week. Has been a real gift for me as I am just back from a weeks stay in hospital.<br />
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Just a cold that decided to take a left turn instead of the exit! All good now and the last 4 days were in our little local medical ward. It's like being treated in the warmth of your own home, and the nurses and carers are so loving and helpful<br />
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We are so thankful to have this wonderful facility in our small town.<br />
Today has been the most amazing winter's day - bright blue sky with not a cloud in sight all day. Beautifully warm if you are tucked away from the winter breeze but suddenly very cold if you enter the shade. It's one of those lovely things about winter. Sort of giving us a reminder of the the lovely warms days of spring and summer to come and that our patch is just having a wee rest. Hmmm, getting a bit poetic here!! LOL.<br />
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On the patchwork front, it's all a bit of a shambles but there has been some progress of sorts...<br />
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This is my new BOM called Golden Days. I have only just started by first block and block four just arrived yesterday, so the plan has gone to the pot quite quickly. Oh well, it's not a race is it? I do love the wonderful fabrics that come with this quilt. Nice to have some new, modern fabric to play with. There are only 5 applique blocks and the rest are pieced - some with quite a challenge.<br />
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This has my knitting (son's next beanie), my challenge piece that might miss the deadline now and the next pile of HST's for Danielle's quilt.<br />
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The mystery has been revealed and I'm quite pleased with it. Now need to choose a frame and border and then I'm going to donate it to a chap at church who is going through a cancer journey.<br />
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So that is where I'm at right now. Looking forward to seeing our granddaughter Marcy during these holidays coming up this month.<br />
I trust you are all well and look forward to seeing you again soon. Thank you for popping in.<br />
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<br />Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-35903782157461326932018-06-17T18:36:00.000-07:002018-06-17T19:17:41.767-07:00Little Plant headsToday I'm shamelessly promoting my DIL's YouTube channel and it does use scraps! LOL<br />
Just slightly different scraps to our fabric ones.<br />
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A quick update on my scraps - the new direction I have taken on Danielle's quilt is progressing well. Having such a lot of triangles already cut out has made a big difference. Almost finished all the small sizes - 2" and 25" and the larger ones will not take as long as there are fewer to make. Now onto my DIL's scrap use.<br />
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I just love this series of videos my lovely DIL Kea has made, along with lots of help from Marcy her 3 yr old daughter. They are made for the enjoyment of other little ones, and it would be great if any of you would like to subscribe to Kea's channel so that she can get her film name of Ficus and Cat on her link. Need to have a 100 subscribers I believe. It will be enjoyable I know. )-:<br />
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I'm linking to Cynthia's at Oh Scrap <a href="http://uiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/">here</a><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nt0ZqXIcC7A" width="480"></iframe>Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-63911353446082757782018-05-23T21:21:00.000-07:002018-05-25T19:13:49.503-07:00A Finish at last...I can finally show you a completely finished quilt. This is called "River" and was a range of fabric we sold in our shop quite a few years ago. It was always one of my favourites. It was a real happy chance that I found this lovely border fabric so many years ago that goes quite well with it. My heartfelt thanks to my friend Lorraine who quilted it for me and made a great job and to Lyn who stitched the binding on for me. These are the heavier jobs I struggle with now.<br />
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I am very blessed to have such good friends. This is all I have for now although I have managed a few other bits and pieces, I will save them for the next post.<br />
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Take care and thanks for popping in. Hope all is well in your world.<br />
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Clare<br />
and I'm linking up to Cynthia at Oh Scrap <a href="http://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.co.nz/">here</a> and you can check out some great quilting.<br />
Also linking with Sarah <a href="http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.co.nz/2018/05/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-so-much-to-be.html">here</a> at Confessions of a Scrap Addict. Such Fun to visit.<br />
<br />Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-33034807275099548422018-05-13T16:48:00.003-07:002018-05-13T16:48:59.422-07:00Been busy ...Trying to make some progress. I see I forgot to put the photo of Travis in my last post...hmmm maybe I was worse than I thought...lol. Here he is trying to fit into Kerry's slipper - such a daft cat.<br />
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Travis has an absolute fascination with shoes and we have to keep our good leather shoes out of his way. He likes to sharpen his claws on them and he has already lost at least three of his lives in regards to my lovely (expensive) shoes. Travis lives a very dangerous life indeed.<br />
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I also made big decision regarding Danielle's quilt. I made (or tried to) another two blocks and no matter how hard I tried, these blocks would not behave. It is one of the reasons I have put off finishing this particular quilt. So these blocks below -<br />
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have now been unpicked and we have gone back to the drawing board. I had an inkling I had seen a pattern in one of my scrap books that would suit all the HST's and triangles already cut out.<br />
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There were a lot of them, plus quite a bit of extra fabric available. That's when I remembered my fabulous book by Amanda Jean Nyberg...<br />
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Yay, looked through this fabulous book and look what I found...<br />
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This gorgeous quilt uses HST's in five different sizes and I already have two sizes cut. There are enough left over of the 2.5" ones to be able to cut them down for the smallest size. I only need to cut the two middle sizes or could leave one out as I don't want to make the quilt too big. Happy, happy, got 20 done yesterday!<br />
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Plus I have made a start on the medallion quilt using my new method of 15 minutes (or thereabouts) at a time. I'm very happy with how this is starting to look. My biggest problem is I fuss over colour choices, so that choosing time is not going to be included in the 15 minutes, Hehehe it probably took me about 30 minutes at least to choose this one little frame,<br />
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The photo has come up very dark, but it's not quite as dark as this and the outside blue has little gold dots on it. All from my scraps - yippee.<br />
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To finish off, I found my collection of thimbles. These were put away when we moved almost four years ago. The biggest problem has been "where do I put them." Guess what my Mothers Day gift is from my DH? He is making me a cracker little shelf set specifically for them. I'll keep you posted.<br />
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I think there are about 90 something in that container!! Maybe I have a bit of a problem. LOL<br />
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That's my lot for now. Thanks for stopping by and I will talk with you again soon. Have a great time in your sewing rooms.<br />
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Clare<br />
who is linking up with Oh Scrap <a href="http://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.co.nz/">here</a> - check out Cynthia's blog. Great scrap quilts and more.<br />
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The layout has finally been sorted for my Applique Affair quilt. Once I have them all sewn together I will take it to a couple of LQS's in search of a suitable frame and border fabric. Needs to be quiet and yet enhance my blocks. So glad to have got this far with it. I wrote that about two weeks ago... the only progress has been the blocks are now in rows. <br />
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Then I took Angie's (of <a href="http://quiltingreadersgarden.blogspot.com/">quiltingreadersgarden.blogspot.com</a>) advice, and will turn this spare block into the beginnings of a small medallion quilt. I'm quite excited to get started on it, and hopefully it will not become another WIP. Angie's advice also included the wise words of just spending 15 mins a day on it and it will soon be finished. I'm going to try that!<br />
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Apart from that I have spent a lot of time recovering from getting extremely tired after events happening for three weeks in a row. It's been a learning curve for me about how my tiredness can build up on itself it I don't allow enough recovery time. I also allowed myself to get very dehydrated which is also a bit of a no-no for me. Oh well, we learn from our mistakes - all is good and Clare is much wiser - lol.<br />
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To finish off here's our daft cat Travis trying to fit into Kerry's slipper. LOL.<br />
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Hopefully back sooner than last time. Thanks for dropping in and take care.<br />
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ClareClare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-87513303845384861062018-04-07T03:02:00.000-07:002018-04-07T03:02:40.418-07:00Wine Country Quilts photos..lotsIt was a fabulous show once more. Congratulations to all the committee and to those who entered their quilts.<br />
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These are just some of the Quilts on show. It was awesome.</div>
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Clare Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03744871283907807531noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283839484258569460.post-34123041486431291482018-03-13T21:19:00.000-07:002018-03-13T21:19:49.183-07:00Just when you think you're finished...I was doing a happy dance on Saturday night as I stitched the very last piece on the very last block of my applique quilt.<br />
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At last, after approximately 10 years of on again, off again attempts, I had finished the blocks I had chosen to do.<br />
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So yesterday I trimmed them all up and put them up on my design wall (and forgot a photo), only for the Tuesday Girls to tell me I had one too many!!!! Horror of all horrors, how could I possible have put myself through the agony of stitching the very last block and then find I had one too many. <br />
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Well, you just have to laugh your cotton socks off, don't you? It really is quite funny and now of course, I shall have to do another four blocks. With no interest in doing a cushion with the left over one, I shall carry on and do another 4! And just between you, me and the gate post, I am actually quite pleased to have a few more blocks to do. It felt quite strange to say I had finished it.<br />
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This is why I didn't leave my applique blocks up on my design wall...<br />
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The Tuesday girls got stuck in again and we have made enough blocks to make this second quilt, and believe it or not, we have about 26 of the 30 needed for quilt number three.<br />
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These quilts are being made for charity - and we are still discussing who we will donate them to.<br />
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The biggest problem is the scrap basket doesn't seem to have gone down very much at all. Meg reckoned they were being very naughty at night time and multiplying. We all think she is right. LOL<br />
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Here's a shot of the industrious beavers at work - we had sewers, trimmers and pressers working away.<br />
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It was quite a job vacuuming up after this session, but we had a huge amount of fun.<br />
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We plan on doing this once a month, and at this rate we will get quite a few charity quilts made. I'm ever the optimist that my stash will decrease. hahaha hahaha.<br />
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The other good news is I am up to date with my scrappy nine patches for the Square Dance Mystery Quilt Along over at From My Carolina Home. Wow, this is exceptional for me to be so organised. Maybe there is hope after all for me. The next clue must be due by the end of this week I think so I have only just made it.<br />
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There are 40 of these lovely blocks and they are very scrappy. Fabric is so expensive over here (now over $30 NZ) for a lot of it, that we tend to think of scraps as anything under a fat eighth.<br />
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And last but not least, I have been chugging along with the pies. No tarts for a couple of weeks, as the ratio is 8 pies to 3 tarts. LOL. Love this quilting language. This is my slow stitching project as my hands tend to object to too much of this intense stitching. (Um mm, I'm a little bit OTT with my little stitches the girls tell me, but I cant help it, LOL)<br />
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That's it friends. The autumn days are certainly drawing in and we finish daylight saving at the end of the month. Winter will be here before we know it and for those of you on the other side of the world you will be rejoicing in the warmth of summer. I guess we need to let you have your turn. Enjoy your springtime. It's so lovely seeing all the flowers pop up isn't it.<br />
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Thanks for popping in and talk to you again soon. I'm going to link up with Cynthia of Oh! Scrap <br />
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Hugs and blessings,<br />
Clare<br />
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