March Studio Organizing Challenge

Posted on March 20, 2020 by prairiemoonquilts in Studio Organizing Challenge

A few days late, but it’s all because I couldn’t decide what I wanted to work on this month! Last month, our challenge was to clean off our design walls (or set one up if you needed one and wanted to). Mine had way too many projects just being stored on it, and I wasn’t […]

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News From the Ranch, Episode 1772

Posted on March 18, 2020 by prairiemoonquilts in Prairie Moon Ranch

Well! Aren’t things in quite a mess right now? I was really looking forward to spring, for flu season to die down, and being able to get out and about again, but with all that’s going on, that’s simply out of the question. Oddly, the COVID-19 pandemic has not changed too much for us here […]

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Quilter’s Complete Guide

Posted on March 9, 2020 by prairiemoonquilts in Reviews

If you ever only buy one quilting book in your life, this should be it! I bought one back in the early 1990s, and the information within its covers is still as relevant today as it was back when I first bought mine. My copy has also had a lot of use — it’s pretty […]

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The PVQG Brown Bag Special

Posted on March 4, 2020 by prairiemoonquilts in Challenges, Guild Stuff

For our group mystery project this year, my local guild, the Pecan Valley Quilt Guild, did the Brown Bag Special, a 4-part program I designed a lot of years ago. Our group has done this before, but we have a lot of new members, and since the results come out differently every time, AND there […]

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February 350 Blocks Report

Posted on February 29, 2020 by prairiemoonquilts in 350 Blocks Project

I’m not gonna say February flew by, because for us here on the ranch, it didn’t. It seemed to drag out forever. I’m not gonna blame it on the extra day, either! Maybe it was because we’re so ready for warmer weather, but it was still cold and nasty quite a bit of the time. […]

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The Space Between Heartbeats

Posted on February 20, 2020 by prairiemoonquilts in Longarm Quilting, Quilts

If you watched the Craft in America episode on Quilts, and you paid close enough attention during Victoria Findlay Wolfe’s portion, you would have seen her working on a quilt on her design wall during the episode. After Victoria finished the top, she sent it to me for quilting, and we had several discussions about […]

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February Studio Organizing Challenge

Posted on February 16, 2020 by prairiemoonquilts in Studio Organizing Challenge

So, January got away from me, and here we are already halfway through February. 2020 has been a blur so far. But it IS my year to get organized, and I’ve been working pretty diligently toward that, even tho it’s going a lot slower than I’d like. It might be safe to say that I’m […]

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Meal Planning

Posted on February 12, 2020 by prairiemoonquilts in Meal planning & Recipes

Let’s just establish right up front that I suck at meal planning. I barely have time to cook, let alone plan what I’m cooking, and then we end up eating poorly, and I try to “do better next time”, but I somehow always fail. My heart’s just not in it. But it really needs to […]

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Using a Bloc-Loc Ruler

Posted on February 8, 2020 by prairiemoonquilts in Garden Path Sampler

I meant to post this earlier in the running of the Garden Path Samplers Block-of-the-Month, but time has gotten away from me. If you’re participating in this BOM, you’ve probably already trimmed lots of triangle squares, but I want to refer you to this video just the same. To get perfectly sized HST (half-square triangle) […]

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My 2020 Planner

Posted on February 5, 2020 by prairiemoonquilts in Organizing

I said earlier that I’d report back and let you know what I decided to use for a planner this year. Turns out, it’s a relatively boring setup, so I have no good pictures for you, but I will tell you what I’m using, and where I got some of my forms. This is the […]

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