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yet another quilt post

I spent this weekend battling a sinus infection. Battling is such an active word for what it was, actually. There were a couple of bursts of medication-aided activity (mainly Saturday night when I decided I needed to get out of the house and see people before I went crazy) but [...]

a quilt update

I am not a ‘quilter’. I know this because I cannot approach this project with anything near the sense that someone who often quilts would. I keep coming up with ideas that simply make the project harder. Like the first thought to back one of the quilts with minkie. And the second, even [...]

quilt progress

Saturday I spent a little time with some serious quilters. They were very gracious to me – not mocking me for completely having a brain block about where to begin. I cut strips for one of the quilts I’m making for the 100 Quilts for Christmas project. I indulged my love of texture by buying [...]

celebration

So here’s how I like to do Christmas – get the shopping over with already. I’m just rarely one to enjoy shopping and I’m definitely not one to enjoy hitting the stores or even fussing with online shopping during the holiday season. I want to be done with all of that so that I can [...]

Becky's bookshelf: read

Shakespeare Wrote for Money

by Nick Hornby

I was in a bookstore the other day hunting for something to read on writing when I got distracted by the books on reading. I picked this one up, knowing nothing about Nick Hornby beyond his connection to About a Boy. My impressions in no...

Wonder

by R.J. Palacio

I grew up loving to read and hope to pass that on so every year I get books for my nieces and nephews for Christmas. There are twenty of them and as they're getting older I can no longer give only books I've read so each year there are o...