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27/07/2011
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It’s coming..

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Blogopolis that is. It is only 3 sleeps away. And I am getting more excited every day. I am nervous too. Friday night the event is kicking off with a gathering of attendees. Many of us have never met before. And I find those situations particularly frightening. How will these people respond to me? Will… Read More

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26/07/2011
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Sarah Hartley 1827 Sampler

by admin, in category Cross Stitch, Samplers, The Needlework Boutique

Stitched in 1827 , the Sarah Hartley sampler shows remarkable similarities to the sampler stitched by Mary Jane Gettys and reproduced in volume 1 of the Sampler and Antique Quarterly magazine.  there are more floral motifs on the Hartley sampler, but both have the same basic design style.  From this an assumption can be made… Read More

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26/07/2011
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Moving…

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to it’s own URL. After a lot of thought, I have bought the domain names bettesmusings.com and bettesmusings.com.au and will have moved this blog lock stock and barrel over to the .com.au URL by the end of this week in time for Saturday’s Blogopolis. So update your bookmarks and feed burners. There will be an… Read More

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25/07/2011
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Dear Jane…

by admin, in category Berthe Massiet, Cross Stitch, Dear Jane, Patchwork and Quilting, Sewing Basket

In April, I embarked on the mammoth project that is the Dear Jane quilt.  It is not a true reproduction, but rather my version of the quilt made during the American Civil War.  Over the last few weeks, I have had a theme for writing about my progress on this quilt bubbling away in my… Read More

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24/07/2011
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Sunday Sewing Basket – Down in the Garden

by admin, in category Embroidery, Patchwork and Quilting, Sewing Basket, Stitcheries

I have not been able to do much stitching this week.  Between going to bed late as I have watched Le Tour de France (GO CADEL!!!!) and getting up early so I could go to work, my eyes were constantly sore from tiredness all week.  BUT Monday evening I went to my regular Sit and… Read More

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23/07/2011
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6 Days …

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… and counting.  I am so excited.  I have been doing some online research.  I have been making plans.  And I can’t wait!!!  Only 6 more sleeps until the Pre-Conference Drinks for the Nuffnang Blogopolis that is being held here in Melbourne.  It is booked out.  Around 300 bloggers from all over Australia will be… Read More

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20/07/2011
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Finished!

by admin, in category Finished, General, Patchwork and Quilting, Sewing Basket

Remember in January I posted about the projects that I had started but were sitting in various UFO piles?The 10th project I spoke about was the Jennifer Knol Ditty Bag.  At the time it was still in lots of pieces.  Well, here you see it almost finished.  Almost you say?  Why show it now?  Welllll,… Read More

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18/07/2011
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Stitching place…

by admin, in category Cross Stitch, Sewing Room

It occurred to me yesterday that I have placed a lot of focus on my quilting life this year, and very little on my number one passion, cross stitch.  Well, I have not forgotten, nor have I abandoned my cross stitch, but I have often had to leave it in the basket.  You see, to… Read More

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17/07/2011
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Sunday Sewing Basket

by admin, in category Cross Stitch, Embroidery, Sewing Basket, Teaching

NB: If you are here to visit my studio as part of the Where Bloggers Create studio tour, please proceed to the 16th July entry… Over the last 2 weeks I have been working away on my first ever softies, I have already shown Miss Buttons, but I was hoping to have the next three… Read More

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16/07/2011
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Where Bloggers Create 2011

by admin, in category General, out and about, Sewing Room

The day has arrived!!!!  Time to invite you into my studio!  Sorry for the delay, but I wanted to make the room presentable for all my guests!  Which included vacuuming the floor – I have been doing so much sewing lately!  We wont pass through the shop on the way – it is next on… Read More

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