10th Annual Final Countdown Winners

Posted on January 7, 2019 by prairiemoonquilts in Challenges, Studio Organizing Challenge

You guys are chock full of organizing ideas, funny stories and admissions, and comforting statements about how I’m so not alone in my disorganized state! And it’s good to hear from those of you who are ahead of the game — it gives me hope! Thank you all for playing along and chiming in. As […]

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2018 Final Countdown, Task Three

Posted on December 31, 2018 by prairiemoonquilts in Challenges, Organizing, Studio Organizing Challenge

Time for the final task of this year’s Final Countdown — that went fast! You have all been working hard! I can tell from the comments, the blog post links, the photos I’ve seen, and the emails I’ve been getting — and just let me say right now, I’m sooo comforted to know that I’m […]

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2018 Final Countdown, Task Two

Posted on December 30, 2018 by prairiemoonquilts in Challenges, Organizing, Studio Organizing Challenge

So did you make any progress yesterday? If you’re a morning person, I apologize. I screwed up the scheduling time of the post, and it was nearly noon when it came out. So I’m a little earlier today! And never fear, you have until January 7th to complete all the tasks. Lord knows it’s for […]

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2018 Final Countdown, Task One

Posted on December 29, 2018 by prairiemoonquilts in Challenges, Organizing, Studio Organizing Challenge

I hope you’re ready for our first task of this year’s Final Countdown! If you’ve been reading along or following me on Instagram this year, you can probably guess what our first task is: Clean off your main work surface Here’s the current state of mine: I’ve been working on this one ALL year, and […]

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The 10th Annual Final Countdown

Posted on December 28, 2018 by prairiemoonquilts in Challenges, Organizing, Studio Organizing Challenge

My, my, 2018 went by in a flash! And I can hardly believe that this is the 10th year we’ve been doing The Final Countdown! But I still NEED to do it. As usual, I still have many things to deal with and organize. How about you? These last few days of the year are […]

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A Log Cabin Guild Challenge

Posted on October 1, 2018 by prairiemoonquilts in Challenges, Guild Stuff, Quilts

I belong to the Hands of Friendship Quilt Guild in Kirksville, Missouri, and every year, we issue a challenge to our members. We have some really fun challenges! This past year, my friend, Andrea, and I were in charge of the challenge. Andrea said she’d been wanting to do a Log Cabin, so that’s what […]

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The Brown Bag Special

Posted on February 22, 2018 by prairiemoonquilts in Challenges

Are you looking for something fun to do with your quilting group? Then I have the perfect project for you! It’s called the Brown Bag Special, and it’s a program I designed specifically for groups. It’s a sort of round robin/mystery quilt project that gets passed among members of the group. You need a group of at […]

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9th Annual Final Countdown Winners!

Posted on January 9, 2018 by prairiemoonquilts in Challenges, Studio Organizing Challenge

As always, I loved hearing about how you all were tackling, or already had under control, the organizing tasks from this year’s Final Countdown! I only have a small handful of magazines left to sort through, but still need to go about finding a permanent storage solution for the ones I’m keeping. And I kinda […]

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2017 Final Countdown, Task Three

Posted on December 31, 2017 by prairiemoonquilts in Challenges, Studio Organizing Challenge

Now that we’ve dealt with the paper pile, and our work surface is all clean and clear, let’s do something a bit more fun for our last task of The Final Countdown, shall we? I’m a chronic list maker, so our final task is going to be: Make a list of projects Here are the […]

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2017 Final Countdown, Task Two

Posted on December 30, 2017 by prairiemoonquilts in Challenges, Studio Organizing Challenge

I’m happy to report that my magazine stack is already half gone! That’s mainly because I’ve been stricken with some sort of winter malady, and have been confined to my easy chair under a pile of blankets with some hot tea, so how better to entertain myself than look through quilting magazines? I’ll keep at […]

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