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Raise the Roof

    Raising the Roof a little higher

    Posted by on May 15 2013

    I’m so glad I’m able to sew regularly again.  My sanity suffers if I don’t! My winter term at college was a heavy one, teaching wise, and by the end of April, it seemed that marking and lectures and exam prep were a 24/7 job.  I was lucky if I got to lather, rinse and […]

    Raise the Roof: a new pieced quilt project

    Posted by on Apr 22 2013

    You’d think after finishing Spring Bouquet, I’d be all quilted out, but apparently not.  I hadn’t even finished appliqueing all those flowers down and I was already planning my next quilt, which I intended to be a pieced quilt. I borrowed Carrie Nelson’s “Another Bite of Schnibbles: 24 Quilts from 5 and 10″ Squares” from […]