drsao | July 11, 2011
Today I have BINDING ON MY MIND…….yes……my Hidden Pinwheels Quilt is begging to be bound……so I guess I will put it on my design wall! This is one of Augusta Cole’s patterns that she gave us at her Cutting Bee. It is made with 4 1/2 HST and 2 1/2 inch SQUARES. I believe that […]
Category: Hidden Pinwheels, Quilts in Progress |
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drsao | July 10, 2011
This weekend I was helping my grandangels tie dye t-shirts (remember the hippie days of yesteryear? THEY ARE BACK!) It was messy but ever so liberating. I like the tie dye that comes in the little bottles in kits (we got ours at JoAnn’s.) I got inspired to tie dye some muslin – I […]
Category: Life Comments, NEW THINGS, SAO's Grandangels, Tie Dye |
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drsao | July 9, 2011
I have been at CAMP LOOPY for the past few weeks! YES FOR REAL. ME …. at CAMP LOOPY! It is a VIRTUAL CAMP (no snakes, mosquitoes or moths) but a camp nonetheless! The first assignment for phase one of Camp Loopy was to be a knitted shawl, cape or scarf using two different […]
Category: Knitting, Ruffle Scarf |
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drsao | July 8, 2011
What a lot of fun……a whole day of creativity and sewing!! A SEW SEW DAY IN POWHATAN WITH CATHERINE. I finished another mini-quilt which I named “ENJOY YOURSELF.” The little stamp on the front says “enjoy yourself, it is later than you think.” I made this top during a VCQ class on EMBELLISHMENT taught by […]
Category: Enjoy Yourself, JB TAKES A WIFE #1, Quilt Retreat, Quilts Finished in 2011, Sew Sew Days July 2011 |
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drsao | July 8, 2011
Doing something that is creative, fun, and social is GOOD FOR YOU! In fact, when I was doing research a few years ago, over and over again we found that social support was one of the NUMBER ONE PREDICTORS of life satisfaction and well-being in older adulthood. A few other predictors of good assessment of […]
Category: Life Comments, Patriotic Dandelion Parade, Quilting Makes Us Healthy, Quilts in Progress, SAO's Grandangels |
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