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Feb 28

DONE: I-Spy Swap 3.0

Almost ready for mailing ...

Phew.

Round 3 of I-Spy fabric swapping is completed. I hope everyone is enjoying their squares and deciding on projects to start. This round had swappers from 19 US states and Canada.

Please send feedback/suggestions on improvements for future swaps.

So far, mostly good things:
- I got the package and the prints are marvelous
- I haven’t finished going through it all, but I am enjoying all the wonderful prints
- Very happy about the selection
- Love all of the fabrics
- Can’t wait to get started on the quilt!!
- I requested my fabric back, but my package didn’t contain any of my original fabric

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Feb 18

Pasta Of The Month: Month 1

Last year, I got mom a Tea of the Month certificate for her birthday – she’s a tea freak :) She really enjoyed the fun flavors and quality of the packages – so much that she bought from Amazing Clubs again … much to my (and my stomachs) delight.

Pasta Month 1

For VDay, mom and step-dad Tom gave me a 3-month Pasta Of The Month Club certificate. Fabulous gift. And yesterday, month 1 arrived!

In the package was:

1a. Black Pepper Lemon Pesto Fettuccine
1b. Pink Spinach Marinara

2a. Garlic and Parsley Parpadelle
2b. Artichoke and Fennel sauce

3. Recipes for each pasta/sauce pair

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Feb 17

Another Sneak Peek: I-Spy Swap 3.0

Here’s (most) of the remaining fabrics from the round 3 swap!

Click on any photo to view a jumbo-sized version for closer fabric inspection :)

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Posted in fabric, quilts

Feb 15

What’s a Mug Rug?

For my partner in the UK

The Quilting Gallery hosted another swap … this time a Mug Rug swap with over 300 people and 25 countries joining in.

A mug rug is an oversized coaster for your mug or glass or cup and has room for a cookie on the side! Great for those early morning sewing sessions :) For this swap, the guidelines were to make two Mug Rugs for our partners, and they weren’t required to match either.

From my partner

My partner was open to anything – which actually made things harder! I did snoop around her flickr site for ideas and found she likes purple and flowers, so that’s the direction I went … it’s hard to tell in the photos, but free-motion quilting holds it all together – close up shot attempt of the quilting as well.

For me, CaryQuilter from North Carolina made me the great blue-brown-teal rugs and sent extra goodies too. Again, hard to tell from the photo, but there was some fun quilting and stitches used.

See more mug rug swap photos on flickr.

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Feb 11

Sneak Peek: I-Spy Swap 3.0

FABRIC!! Here’s a peek into some of the fabric for this swap … more photos to come later this week.

Click on any photo to view a jumbo-sized version for closer fabric inspection :)

Please remember that you will not receive all of these fabrics as everyone is randomly broken into two groups for swap host organizational sanity – unless you had a special request that we’ve talked about.