Musings from the Deep South

One year ago, in June, there was a black cat in my side yard.  I called him and he came running as fast as he could run, meowing at the top of his lungs and then wrapped himself around my legs....

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Since I last posted, I entered a quilt show and I finished a top.  The top is one that I started many moons ago and you can find the story of the quilt farther down in the blog.  There is...

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  This is Chester, my daughters cat.  Chester is a wonderful cat, and he liked Fred See the following post for   Fight For Fred Info. 

http://mossbluffquilts.blogspot.com/2015/03/chester.html

FRED SEVERAL YEARS AGO, VICTOR, MY SON,  WAS LIVING IN SULPHUR.  HE WAS ON HIS WAY HOME FROM WORK.  IT WAS RAINING, AND DARK, AND AS HE DROVE UP A BUSY STREET THERE WAS A BASSETT HOUND TRYIN...

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This is a quilt I designed a while back.  I had designed another quilt and started to make it and it just did not "do it" for me.  The background colors were backwards.  I decided to change th...

http://mossbluffquilts.blogspot.com/2015/02/one-more-shade-of-blue.html

I AM BACK, but I think I have said that before.  I have been dragging my feet a lot.  But, I do have some quilts done or nearly done.  I should have more done in all reality.  My brain really...

http://mossbluffquilts.blogspot.com/2015/01/im-back.html

MOVING........... A while back I mentioned that I was looking on Whidbey Island for a house.  I also said it was a woman's prerogative to change her mind.  As you know I change my mind.  I lo...

http://mossbluffquilts.blogspot.com/2014/06/moving-still-moving-quilting.html

In the right column, under Genealogy, I have added a paragraph.  If you are doing genealogy, or you know people with those surnames, please read it, just in case you might have some information...

http://mossbluffquilts.blogspot.com/2014/04/genealogy-crago-variations-and-mcgahey.html

My daughter is an artist and she lives in Spokane, Washington.  She has just started a shop on Etsy.  You might want to stop in and take a look.  Here is an example of what you will find. El...

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ALASKA/NEBRASKA Alaska/Nebraska   Bottom of Alaska/Nebraska   I am making slow progress with this quilt, but it is coming together.  I now have the outside blocks finished and have...

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MOVING....... I have heard that women have the prerogative to change their minds.  I am sure by this time most people think that I am over doing it or have just gone bonkers.  Change is in the...

http://mossbluffquilts.blogspot.com/2014/02/change-is-in-air.html

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS............ Hope everyone had a  Merry Christmas and have a great New Year.  I had a nice holiday, a Merry Christmas and the dogs, cats and I watched the festivities...

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December Pineapple Pattern   Not much new here.  We had frost again this morning.  We have had frost several mornings.  I am hoping that all the foliage in the yard makes it come spring...

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PRACTICING I am practicing for my move to Iowa.  Yesterday I went to a craft sale.  It was cold.  I wore a coat and gloves.  Thankfully it was held inside.  It was about 40 degrees.  I not...

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I was born in Iowa.  I still have kin there and several close friends.  I am sure that anyone who reads this blog has heard me say "it is hot."   Last year about did me in.  I honestly don't...

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I have a lot of catching up to do.  I have pictures to post,  and I am sure I can figure out something to say.  In August, all I had to write about was "it was hot."  Believe me it was hot. ...

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IT IS HOT............... Southern Louisiana.........is it hotter than normal?   It feels like it.  I can't wait for winter.  I am sick of my summer clothes, I am tired of being hot.  My flo...

http://mossbluffquilts.blogspot.com/2013/08/quilts-finished-idiots-corner-it-is-hot.html

FIRE ANTS.... One week ago tomorrow, I was out watering a flower bed.  Anyone living in the south is familiar with Fire Ants.  Some living out of the south have probably heard of them. ...

http://mossbluffquilts.blogspot.com/2013/07/yethi-says-it-is-hot-quilts-and-bug.html

MOVIE............. Yesterday,  I went with a group numbering 7 of us to lunch and then to see the movie "The Lone Ranger."  If you have not seen it, go see it.  It is great, it is funny, it i...

http://mossbluffquilts.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-movie-and-new-quilting-product.html

THE PURPLE DRINK............ Things have been a bit slow around here.  I am quilting, staying in a lot because it is too hot to go anywhere.  I found a wonderful drink.  It is called - Purpl...

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Indigo Quilt displayed at IQCM at Lincoln, NE   Indigo Quilt displayed at IQCM at Lincoln, NE   Indigo Quilt displayed at IQCM at Lincoln, NE   At the International Quilt Cente...

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NEBRASKA - INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER AND MUSEUM I want to touch on one of the galleries at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at Lincoln, NE.   This particular gallery had...

http://mossbluffquilts.blogspot.com/2013/05/nebraska-kitty-kat-and-quilting.html

One of the highlights of our trip was our visit to Fabric Essentials in Concordia, KS.  The shop was on the Shop Hop.  The girls were a joy to talk with and we had ever so much fun going throug...

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ODDS AND ENDS........... Hall Teapot - Blue Bouquet   I was over in Sulphur, LA looking in on my house.  While there a friend and I went to lunch and then checked out an antique and c...

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Sharie, Janet, Billy, Willey @ Quilt House (museum) This quilt was hanging in the lobby of the Quilt House (museum) at Lincoln, NE.  We were all having a wonderful time.  Billy was having ...

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