Category Archives: quilting

checking in

Posted on November 18, 2015 by is there any more pie?

This tile sums up my dobro lessons. Five weeks after hauling my 300 pound dobro down (and up!) a flight of stairs to the basement of the local music store for my Tuesday lessons with “Buddy”, I remain dazed and … Continue reading →

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saturday’s 300 miles, day five

Posted on September 26, 2015 by is there any more pie?

We overslept.  I blamed it on yet another time change, as we are now on Eastern Daylight Time, three hours later than the lake. Banjo Man thought, since it was our anniversary and because we only had to drive 300 … Continue reading →

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threads and stuff

Posted on August 30, 2015 by is there any more pie?

Last  week I was driving to my physical therapy appointment (the frozen shoulder is thawing!  Hurray!) and I missed the turn into the parking lot.  I had to drive another half mile until I found a place to turn around. … Continue reading →

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the force is with me

Posted on June 7, 2015 by is there any more pie?

I’ll be having company at the lake in July. My grandson. He has never the seen the lake or the mountains or our gravel roads.  He has never eaten his grandmother’s peach pie or picked raspberries from the garden. Banjo … Continue reading →

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another baby, another quilt

Posted on April 26, 2015 by is there any more pie?

Hurray!  I accomplished something this week!  Despite this frozen shoulder and a stomach bug, I actually got something done!!!! I made the top last November, but hadn’t had time–what with trips to Texas and book deadlines–to quilt it. Now it’s … Continue reading →

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sew and sew

Posted on April 20, 2015 by is there any more pie?

Last Friday Harley Chick, her Aunt Pat and I made our annual April pilgrimage to the Sew Expo in Worcester, Massachusetts. We look forward to it all year.  This year, though, our youngest seamstress didn’t attend.  It turned out she … Continue reading →

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stitching in the new year

Posted on January 9, 2015 by is there any more pie?

I love New Year’s Day.  The parade.  The football.  The food.  The warm house and the sweatpants and the color television and the coziness of knowing I don’t have to go anywhere… Which means I have all day to sew!!!!! … Continue reading →

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pictures from a very busy kitchen

Posted on September 16, 2014 by is there any more pie?

Peppers from Retired Mountain Lady. Flowers from Dancing Mandolin Player’s garden, and vintage blocks from a local antique store.   Plum Conserve, to fulfill my insane urge to can something. Old habits die hard.  From her perch in heaven, my … Continue reading →

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yes, you can have too much fabric

Posted on June 5, 2014 by is there any more pie?

Okay, so I own a lot of vintage fabric.  I did actually sew with it.  Really, I did.  I cut up yards and yards and yards of it, made Christmas stockings for animal rescue charities, and pillows and quilts for … Continue reading →

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if it’s april, it’s sew expo

Posted on April 11, 2014 by is there any more pie?

This little girl loves fabric. And notions. And quilts. I think it’s genetic! She always loves Sew Expo…even when she was a one-year old in a stroller she loved touching the fabric. We don’t buy much, but we spend hours … Continue reading →

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