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Rainy days in Summer

Posted on July 24, 2011 by admin

It has been raining almost all July, and last night temperatures dropped so much, that it really felt if Winter has decided to return early this year. You might think that rainy days in Summer are the perfect days for quilters. But sometimes my work is too busy and I am not able to focus on my UFO’s or start a new project, because there is work to finish that I brought home from the office. To avoid loosing the quilting bug (which seems to be impossible, once contaminated), I like to visit blogs of other quilters. The American Quilter Society can be followed on Facebook there they announce their ‘blog-of-the-week’ winner. This week Julie Letvin’s http://www.quiltjewelry.blogspot.com/ is the lucky winner. I visited her blog and was so surprised with what I saw. She makes the most beautiful miniature (and I really mean ‘miniature’, with a size of 1-2″!) patchwork pendants and pins. I was even more surprised that she decided to give away some of her pieces. It was not difficult for me to choose from her stash (the 1 1/2″ pineapple heart in pink, purple an cream batiks). To give you an idea I have copied this picture from Julie’s blog.

Reading other quilters blogs gives inspiration for new ideas. But there’s more blogs that I like: and one I particularly like to read is http://momentswithmotherculture.blogspot.com/. I met Karen and her husband at breakfast, when Jack and I were in Flemington on our trip from Pittsburgh to New York. We stayed in the Manor House on Main street, a very nice B&B in an old Victorian house. Karen’s posts are so nice to read, about the daily things in her life, (often about her knitting or embroidery projects), but always with a lesson or advice in a very pleasant way.
If you are interested in our trips, you can visit our travel blog http://tripsandtravel.netau.net/. Our next trip will head ‘down under’ next Spring: yesterday we picked up some information at the local travel agency, so we can start preparing. And preparing a trip is one of the nicest things to do (besides quilting, but that’s obvious!). Enjoy the rainy days in Summer!

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2 thoughts on “Rainy days in Summer”

  1. Karen Andreola says:
    July 24, 2011 at 19:57

    Anne-Marie
    I enjoyed meeting you in person. Please let us know when you will travel to America next.

    What darling quilts.
    Your quilting represents an artist’s eye with a taste for style and color that is amazingly varied. I did some clicking to enlarge your photographs to get a closer look. I like reading the little stories behind each quilt and who were the recipients. The ties between person and quilt show your varied “heart” as well; the heart of a daughter, wife, mother, and friend.

    A quilt I’d like to make some day is a small Amish style “sunshine & shadow.”

    Karen A.
    (It is 100F in Lancaster, Pennsylvania – hot. We could use a cool breeze off the Atlantic.)

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  2. Karen Andreola says:
    August 1, 2011 at 16:06

    Anne-Marie,
    Because I do not see an email I’m writing in your comments. To hear a sampling of the Mother Culture CD go to CBD.com. Type “Mother Culture CD” in the search box. Click “play” and you will hear 4 minutes of the “serious” part which begins the message. It does lighten up as it goes along.

    Looking forward to seeing your next fabric project.

    Karen A.

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