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Dianne’s 4 Season Mural is Complete

Posted in Commissions, daily painter, Landscape, Serendipity, tagged , , on November 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »

After a great deal of planning, over 20 hours of painting, and I don’t know how much paint, Dianne and I completed the mural at her home. Well, almost complete. There are a few little details that I want to add….and Dianne wants us to put a little something in the field on the Summer panel…and I want to change the summer panel a bit so I’ll share it again when we finally do finish it. We’ll get to it as soon as Thanksgiving is over. We wanted to get it as far a possible so that Dianne could share it with her family tomorrow when they come to her home for Thanksgiving dinner. It was a BIG project. The wall is 26 feet long and the height is 8 feet. Did we mention it was a big project???!!!!

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Road Trip Trio

Posted in Quilting, Serendipity, Small Town Life, tagged on November 19, 2023| 2 Comments »

Remember our big road trip back in March and the quilt I designed to make a memory of it? Well here are Katrina, me and Janet holding our finished Road Trip quilts. All so different and all so beautiful!!! Nice work!!!

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The Mural is Almost Done

Posted in daily painter, Serendipity, tagged , on November 13, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Dianne and I worked for 6 hours on the mural this weekend. We are getting very close now. She started painting frames around them while Lincoln supervised my touch-up and finals on the last panel. We still have a few more hours of detail work but it’s almost there.

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Dianne’s Mural is Coming Along

Posted in Landscape, Serendipity, tagged on November 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »

The mural continues…..we have 3 panels almost done and the last one about halfway. Dianne is hoping for it to be done before Thanksgiving but between her schedule and mine it probably won’t be done quite that soon but certainly before Christmas. Here she is touching up the snow on our winter panel. We’ll post another update after our next session.

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The Centennial Featherweight

Posted in Furniture, Little Known Facts, Quilting, Serendipity, Sewing, tagged , , , , on October 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Last year I posted about finally finding the last Featherweight that I had been searching for in order to have one of each color. Read about that here. And with that I thought I was finished collecting these wonderful little machines. But as it turns out I needed one more…..The Centennial! These machines have a special badge that marks a hundred years of sewing for Singer….1851-1951. Not too long ago I had a chance to buy one…and you guessed it, I did! Here she is! And she is beautiful. I took her down to the river earlier this week to sew with her. She did a great job. I realized as I was sewing that I had now shared her yet here so I wanted to show her off as well as the Featherweight Table that I bought not too long ago at an auction thanks to the sharp eye of my friend, Jackie, who picked it up for me.

If you read the blog link above you saw that people who collect Featherweights name them. My first three are named Barbara for my mom and Lucille and Nola Mae for my grandmothers. The three of them taught me so much about sewing, crafting and creating. I am forever in their debt for that. So as I thought about what to name the Centennial just one name came to mind….June. I am naming her for June Winn Thomas who was my Home Ec teacher in high school and a great friend. Even after all these years she still cheers me on commenting on what all we are doing at The Studio. So meet June…the newest addition to my Featherweight collection. I would say I am done buying these little machines but never say never.

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Dianne’s Mural Continues

Posted in Landscape, Private Lesson, Serendipity, tagged , , , on October 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Dianne and I worked on her mural a few more hours today. You’ll remember the right section….Fall…from a week or so ago. Today we added the Winter scene. It is about 70% finished. We need to add more snow to the trees and a few more limbs. And we plan to add a cardinal in the tree. But because of travel plans we won’t be able to do more for a few weeks so we’ll show you more as we get it done. At this rate we may have it done for her Thanksgiving dinner.

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Continuing the Temperature Quilt

Posted in Abstract, Quilting, Serendipity, Sewing, tagged , on September 18, 2023| Leave a Comment »

I worked on my 2023 Temperature Quilt this morning. I have been trying to keep up with it each month. I find if I fall behind it’s hard to get going again. I crocheted a temperature blanket a few years ago. (Read about it here.) After seeing a few Temperature Quilts at a show lasat year I decided to give it a try. The Black and White blocks indicate the beginning of each month. The block are half square triangles with the upper right being the high temp of the day and the bottom left the low temp. The key is on the white paper laying on the upper right side in the photo. There is close up photo of the key below. I’ll post another photo at the end of the year when it’s all done. 🙂

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Quick Trip to PA Quilt Extravaganza

Posted in Quilting, Serendipity, Sewing, Travel on September 16, 2023| Leave a Comment »

We had a delightful group of quilters that went on our quick trip to the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza at Oaks PA on Thursday and Friday. We attended the show on Thursday and saw hundreds of amazing quilts and got some great ideas. We shopped the vendors at the show and then had a great dinner and turned in early Thursday night so we could hit the road early Friday morning for our F.A.R.T. (Fabric Acquisition Road Trip). And acquire fabric we did!!!! We hit 5 of our favorite shops…Zinck’s, Good’s Store, Old Country Store Quilts, Log Cabin Quilts and Burkholders. What a whirlwind! We flew into each shop and all 8 of us found some treasures. (And let me say that these ladies were an amazing group with which to travel. So compatible and up for all adventures!) We loaded up the van and headed home. We were all good and tired when we got home last night but also excited and full of ideas of new projects. I can’t wait to see how all that amazing fabric turns out. If you love sewing and/or quilting be sure to watch for our new Open Studio time just for you!

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The First Quilt in the “Wilma” Series

Posted in Quilting, Serendipity, Sewing, tagged , , , on September 8, 2023| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago I introduced a new series of quilts that I had designed, all based on NOT including any half-square triangles. My good friend, Wilma, hates making half-square triangles so I designed this group of quilts with her in mind and decided to call it The Wilma Series. (See and read about that here.) I just finished one of the designs this afternoon. I love the colors and the modern feel to this quilt. It was put together using the Quilt As You Go method. It went really fast!

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Amazing Fancy Diamond Quilt

Posted in daily painter, Quilting, Serendipity, Sewing, tagged , , , on August 31, 2023| Leave a Comment »

I completed this “Fancy Diamond” quilt top last month and was pleased with how it turned out. I took it to my longarm quilter, Wendy Hughes. When I got it back I was thrilled. Just look at the beautiful stitching she did on the blocks and neutral space. Wendy made a quilt that I was pleased with into a quilt that I am so delighted to have! Don’t you agree that it’s amazing????!!!!! Thanks Wendy…beautiful work!

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