Change of direction ….

September 29, 2011

With my more personal blog now having it’s own URL – www.bettesmusings.com, I have decided not to let this one lay fallow, but to use it for Needlework Boutique updates. I will try to keep the updates short and to the point, with more detailed updates coming in the newsletter….

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We’ve moved…

August 1, 2011

to www.bettesmusings.com.  So be sure to change the URL in your reader and bookmarks…

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Dear Jane,

July 30, 2011

(This is an ongoing series of posts written in the form of a journal addressed to the creator of the original quilt.) For a long time I have admired your quilt.  I have often looked at Brenda Papadakis’ book recreating your quilt, thinking I love this, but it is too hard.  I am not a [...]

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It’s coming..

July 27, 2011

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 [...]

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Sarah Hartley 1827 Sampler

July 26, 2011

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 [...]

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Moving…

July 26, 2011

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 [...]

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Dear Jane…

July 25, 2011

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 [...]

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Sunday Sewing Basket – Down in the Garden

July 24, 2011

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 [...]

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6 Days …

July 23, 2011

… 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 [...]

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Finished!

July 20, 2011

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, [...]

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