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• Baby Aster Quilt Kit for Sarah

  Last week I shipped off a present for Sarah at Makin’ Projiks.  She is going through a difficult pregnancy and is on prescribed bed rest, so I suggested she might enjoy hand stitching a quilt for the new baby while she is pretty much trapped on the couch, and she agreed — Yea!  Sarah loves [...]

  July 2nd, 2010

• Anne Orr Quilt Patterns — Lockport Batting Co.

  Lockport Batting Company published several booklets and leaflets of Anne Orr quilt designs. I have two of the booklets and a few leaflets. Following up on the Anne Orr inspired quilt designs that I recently posted, I thought I would show you some of the original patterns from this 1944 publication.
  These old booklets [...]

  January 30th, 2010

• Photoshop: Merging Type with a Photo Background

  Several people have asked me how to do this, so here is a little tutorial. I am certainly no Photoshop expert, and there may be a better way. I just knew what I wanted to do, and since my son, Elliott, wasn’t around, I just played around with it until I figured it [...]

  December 23rd, 2009

• Gifts from Blogging Friends

  This has been a very good week for me. First I won a vintage apron from my friend, Jan, at Just-A-Mere. Actually everyone who entered her give-away won a vintage apron because….well….she’s just nice like that and she’s got a lot of aprons. I got my first choice — a chicken scratch [...]

  October 2nd, 2009