WAYWO: Making Ornamental Wreaths
This is my first diary in DK5, so hopefully this will work. Once upon a time my husband and I purchased commercial, predone wreaths. They cost $35 — $45. In the last few years we been making our own...
View ArticleDK Quilt Diary: Christmas ornaments
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View ArticleWAYWO: What did you make for the Holidays?
A somewhat late Happy New Year wish for everyone!This is mostly a picture diary that I am hoping everyone will add to. The topic is What did you make for the holidays? Anything is fair game. I will...
View ArticleMaking a Victorian Sewing Kit
For Christmas I made a Huswif for my sister. It is a Victorian sewing kit. The name Huswif comes from Germany according to the pattern and the kit was usually kept in the laundry where the maid could...
View ArticleWAYWO: Following your passion
I wasn’t sure what to write this diary on. I have finished my second Mrs. O’Leary book and it has gone to my first set of editors and I am in the middle of rewrite. I thought about writing about how...
View ArticleDK Quilt Guild: Favorite patterns
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View ArticleDK Quilt Guild: Quilting Inspiration photos
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View ArticleWAYWO: Putting in hardwood flooring
What we are working on now is putting in hardwood floors in our next house. We are downsizing but want to have the smaller house look and feel enough like our current house where we have a lot of...
View ArticleDK Quilt Guild: Open Thread and Links
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View ArticleDK WAYWO: Open Thread -- and Still rehabbing
This is an open thread because we are still rehabbing and it is taking a lot of our time. On the plus side the living room / great room flooring is done. Living room wood flooring finally done. And the...
View ArticleDK Quilt Guild: Easy Zippered Bag
Our LQG sponsors a “special project” each month. This month it was a zippered bag based on a pattern from Nancy Zeiman’s Wisconsin quilt show in 2014. I wanted to take the class mostly to learn how to...
View ArticleDK WAYWO: Open Thread
We had hoped to be more completely finished with the rehabbing since the tenants officially took over last week, but a garage door spring broke on Thursday (we called the pros for that; too dangerous...
View ArticleDK Quilt Guild: Interesting block but fabric FAIL
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View ArticleDK WAYWO: Coloring in Machine Embroidery
I have been doing hand embroidery since I was 12. But as we age, and things get more difficult, we look for easier ways to get similar results. One obvious answer for embroidery is machine...
View ArticleDK Quilt Guild: Repurposing an Entertainment Center
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View ArticleWAYWO: Book Publishing, a Discussion of Marketing
What Are You Working On? is for all things hand-made, home-made, and creative in a variety of mediums.Self publishing is fraught with problems — some financial, some emotional. It is a difficult...
View ArticleDK Quilt: Island Living and Quilting
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View ArticleDK WAYWO: Quilt Pictures
It’s snowing here in Northern Illinois. We’ve got about 4 inches already and they are saying up to nine inches possible. The temperatures are getting to be more wintery too. Just the sort of time to...
View ArticleDK Quilt Guild: A simplish Landscape Block in Progress
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View ArticleDK WAYWO: Repurposing Storage Cabinets
I first wrote this diary a few months ago, but due to some other activities going on, it got very little notice, so I’m redoing it with a few minor changes. The general concept is that furniture...
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