A Veritable Sewing Marathon

Posted on September 15, 2015 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff, Quotes

I attended my guild’s fall retreat last weekend. As always, it was so much fun. We always say we don’t know how it can be any more fun than it was the last time, but it always is! I worked on six different projects, none of which I can show you just yet, but as […]

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Our 2014 Fall Guild Retreat

Posted on September 22, 2014 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff, Quotes

So much fun! And it’s over now. What a great group of ladies to spend a weekend with! We laughed a lot, ate a lot, and sewed a lot. I believe there were 30 of us in attendance. Our guild is getting larger. We even swindled some ladies from the Kansas City area into joining […]

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The 29th Annual

Posted on June 3, 2014 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff, Quilts

Would you like to go to my quilt show with me? Well, then, come on! I’ll show you some of the many quilts we had on display at the Hands of Friendship Quilt Guild’s 29th Annual Quilt Show last weekend. Our show is divided into 11 categories for entry, and the voting is all Viewer’s […]

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Big Stitchin’

Posted on April 4, 2014 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff

At our last guild meeting, at the Hands of Friendship Quilt Guild, we had a special guest. Bobbi McClure, from Iowa, came to visit and demonstrate how to do Big Stitch Quilting. She even brought us all our own little quilt sandwiches so we could try it hands-on. Bobbi is a longarm quilter, but when […]

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Brunswick Lodging and Event Center

Posted on March 18, 2014 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff, Quotes

Sew Sweet Quilt Shop in Brunswick, MO, recently built on . . . they built a lodging and event center attached to the quilt shop . . . and it is fabulous! Upstairs, 10 sleeping rooms, each with a private bath, can house up to 22 people overnight. And downstairs is their new classroom, plus […]

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Charleston Pavement

Posted on February 19, 2014 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff, My Patterns, Quilts, Quotes, What's New

I take my sketchbook with me almost everywhere. It comes in very handy when I get stuck waiting somewhere. Somewhere like a hospital waiting room, for example. It was on one such occasion that I ended up staring at the carpeting in said waiting room until the weave pattern became so apparent that I sketched […]

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Our Paint Chip Challenge

Posted on November 15, 2013 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff, Quilts

I’m a proud member of the Pecan Valley Quilt Guild in Brunswick, MO, and back in the summer, we were issued a “Paint Chip Challenge”. We each got to draw two paint chips at random, and then were tasked with making a quilted project using those two colors. We were allowed to add in one […]

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News From the Ranch, Episode 1163

Posted on September 23, 2013 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff, Prairie Moon Ranch, What's New

It’s been very busy around here, which is nothing new. It’s also been very hot and dry. And we’ve been doing lots of things. We got four new kitties, from three different places, but they’re all a bit camera shy. They’ve decided to camp out in the hay loft down at the barn, which is […]

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Our Quilt Show

Posted on June 21, 2013 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff, Quilts

The Hands of Friendship Quilt Guild in Kirksville, MO, had our 28th Annual Show a couple weeks ago. If you were there, then you were treated to a wonderful display of quilts. If you weren’t, then you missed out, but I’m here to give you a tour of some of it! It’s always a fun […]

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Pecan Valley Fun

Posted on March 18, 2013 by prairiemoonquilts in Guild Stuff, Travels

My local guild, The Pecan Valley Quilt Guild, had a retreat this past weekend. We do this twice a year, and it’s always a total blast. We go to the Comfort Inn in Chillicothe, and what a wonderful place to have it. We never want for anything, and the hotel is one of the nicest […]

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