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Month: June 2021

Color my world

Quilts offer a lot of opportunity to play with color and color placement.  When you change the color placement on a design, you can get very different looking results.

I have taken a fair number of quilting classes over the years. My favorite classes are those that stretch my skills and teach me new things. 

Joining Hands All Around

In 2008, my guild had a teacher in named Sharyn Craig. Her class was teaching a couple of piecing skills – curved seams and y-seams.  Piecing is the term for how you put the fabric together to make the quilts.

Old enough for the scary stories – remembering Aunt Dee

Delores was born on June 7, 1934 and died on January 25, 2005.

I remember sitting on the porch at my aunt and uncle’s farmhouse, listening to my Aunt Dee playing the guitar and telling stories. When I was very little, I thought she made up all the songs she sang for us. I remember being very surprised to learn that she didn’t write “You Are My Sunshine”

Aunt Dee and Aunt Genny, who shared a June 7th birthday. Aunt Genny was born two years earlier.

The Last of the Alcohol Stove Accessories: Windscreen and Fuel Bottle

In this post and this post we made an alcohol burner to use as a backpacking stove. We’ve also made a snuffer and a pot support. But before we can call this stove project done enough to play with, we need to make a windscreen, and find a fuel bottle. I promise after this we’ll get to set it on fire!

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