October 2010
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Patchwork Posse Borders
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Patchwork Posse Update
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Makeover!
You might notice that my blog banner has had a face lift. I want to thank artist, designer and illustrator Kirsten Peters McGrath for helping me find my new look. She came up with several very clever designs which I have been trying out and admiring today. I am really liking this block logo. Check out Kirsten’s work in her Etsy shop under her name and the name kpmdoodles. Kirsten has been featured in the Treasury on Etsy so you know she has some serious design skills (she also designs jewelry and costumes). When talent was being handed out, she was obviously standing at the front of the line! Thanks, Kirsten, for your help.
My round robin bee is having a secret partner swap of Fall/Halloween fabric and my envelope arrived today from my partner and friend Jane of Jane’s Fabrics. (See button on the right sidebar). I particularly love the Apple Tree fabric. Thanks for the wonderful gift, Jane!
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More PIQF Inspiration
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More PIQF Photos

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Pacific International Quilt Festival
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Not a Big Fan of Halloween
I have to admit it, I am not a big fan of Halloween. Ghost, witches and goblins…I can do without them. My husband, on the other hand, loves Halloween. He is the one that shops for the decorations and relishes turning our house into the land of the unliving every October. Like these little treasurers that find their way on to the mantle in the family room.
Not to mention the fake headstones that make their way on to the lawn, the packages of ‘spider web’ that is pulled across the bushes and trees or the gigantic black spider that crawls across the front of the house. He came home from work early last year so he could hang a hundred plastic spiders from the entryway so the kids had to walk through them to get to the doorbell. That’s right, there is a 12 year old boy trapped in my husband’s body. But there are only two more weeks until I can quietly pack away the boxes of ghostly trappings and happily unpack the Thanksgiving decorations. Ah, I love Thanksgiving….
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Patchwork Posse Quilt
Becky, Posse Boss at Patchwork Posse Quilts, has posted her center block for the new quilt-along…
By popular vote of her blog’s readers, the theme “Whimsey” has been chosen and Becky has provided a sweet mommy and baby snail in the garden as the center for the quilt. The fun starts now. Every two weeks a new set of borders will be posted until the quilt is complete in early January. Come along and sew with us!