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Thirteen years after they were banned from country radio, it seems that Texas is ready to make nice with the Dixie Chicks. But it wasn't easy.

It was so exciting to see this quilt come together today:)!   It was sewn together in six sections.  And it's a good thing because the blocks are all different sizes.  It was kind of like sewing a puzzle together in sections! Section 1- Section 2- Section 3- Section 4- Section 5- Section 6- Isn't…

So my original goal was to work on my Long Time Gone project a little bit at a time.  Maybe a block a week, a section a month, something...

A scrappy quilt designed by Jen Kingwell. Made as a sample for a six month class.

I'm playing catchup on my blog, I finished Long Time Gone in November but am just now getting around to blogging about it.  Mainly because...

This canvaswork embroidery design is based on the Long Time Gone quilt by Jen Kingwell. It is a great piece for learning about the endless design possibilities available in working this counted form of embroidery.

Texan cowboy

At Spring Market in St. Louis a couple weeks ago, I talked to Jen Kingwell in her booth and told her I was working on Long Time Gone, one of...

'Gelato' - Jen Kingwell's Long Time Gone quilt made with batik fabrics.

I have been looking at and drooling over Jen Kingwell's designs and patterns for a while now.  Her wild colors and adventurous techniques just tickle my fancy.   So when she announced that she came out with a new pattern called Delilah and that it would be a template block of the month, I signed…

June 21st marks 60 years since the last Chicago streetcar ran. If you consider that 80 years is, perhaps, about an average lifespan, that means 3/4ths of such a time has now passed since that historic event. The number of people still living who rode Chicago streetcars is dwindling, and is certainly only a small…

As WWII was ending, the studios were turning out war films and feel-good films to bolster our morale. The war had gone on a long time and, even though the war with Germany ended on VE Day, May 8, 1…

Long Time Gone is a wrap. A six month, once a month class, we wrapped up . They did the sewing at home, I demoed the various blocks each mon...

I love so many of Jen Kingwell's designs and when I heard there would be a SAL using her sampler pattern Long Time Gone of all machi...

Building Confident Patchworkers

Last night I finished Rosamond's Long Time Gone quilt, pattern is a BOM by Jen Kingwell Designs .  And, no, I'm not that fast -- this was ac...

What a delightful surprise I had a few weeks back when Linda was up from Christchurch (in the South Island NZ) to visit family, Linda want...