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Continue reading →: Crochet humorVacation continues to go swimmingly but today I’ll take a blog break to share some crochet fun. Laura and I picked up this book at a local little free library. It was published around 1985 and I think that it might have been a monthly subscription for a packet of…
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Continue reading →: Planning a new quilt by accidentYesterday I didn’t sew one stitch. It was mostly a day of exercise and kayaking and fabric shopping. There’s a local fabric store that I visit every time I visit here. This year we learned that the owner is retiring and closing the store later this month. I decided that…
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Continue reading →: Indoor dayYesterday it rained all day. It was still beautiful and relaxing but we stayed in all day. I started by making everyone a big pancake breakfast with bacon and fried potatoes. They all enjoyed my gluten-free pancakes so I can highly recommend the King Arthur gluten-free pancake mix. The rest…
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Continue reading →: The day before the rainYesterday was breezy but beautiful. We started the day on my favorite hike. It was too windy to kayak so I got in lots of sewing and crochet before our lobster dinner. It’s such a treat to have access to fresh lobster. I prefer the claw meat so Chris eats…
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Continue reading →: Sunday and MondayMy Fleurette quilt is coming along nicely. I have half of the blocks done! The lighting is not great in this house and it was late in the day when I laid these blocks out. They will not have sashing so the quilt will look very much like this. I’m…
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Continue reading →: August Accomplishments and September GoalsAugust is vacation month and we’ve been having quite a wonderful vacation but I had a week before we left to finish up several projects. First, six more veterans quilts got quilted Then I finished 48 potholders. Some were started in July but most were finished in August the week…
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Continue reading →: August AudiobooksVacation month is always a hard month for reading, especially when we have guests around. I socialize instead of read and that’s absolutely OK! I don’t have a lot of great recommendations this month. Ms Mebel…..was my favorite book of the month by far. The Janus Stone cones in second.…
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Continue reading →: The last two daysThe great vacation continues. Friday was a pretty quiet day. It was foggy and a bit dreary so we headed into Bar Harbor to do some shopping and walking. Today, on the other hand, was spectacular. I got in a long kayak session in the morning and about an hour…
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Continue reading →: New quilt startedYesterday was too breezy for being on the water so Chris, Ian and I headed out for a hike. But I’ll start with the afternoon because I finally got started on the feedsack quilt blocks. Here are the first 2. They aren’t pressed yet but I think they turned out…
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Continue reading →: Another day in paradiseWe had a beautiful day yesterday. Chris and Win left very early for a fishing trip, we’ll before the rest of us were up. Ian and I mustered around 8 for a 2 and a half hour kayaking trip to the end of the lake and back. We were the…
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I’m Vicki
I’m Vicki Welsh and I’ve been making things as long as I can remember. I used to be a garment maker but transitioned to quilts about 20 years ago. Currently I’m into fabric dyeing, quilting, Zentangle, fabric postcards, fused glass and mosaic. I document my adventures here.
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