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Sunday evening around 9:30 I had a date with my front porch to watch the lunar eclipse. I do love the moon, how the moon orbits the earth reflecting the light of the sun, waxing and waning, sometimes nearer the earth, sometimes seemingly far awaymoving to and fro in sync with the tidal movement The… Continue reading Eclipse
Twist! A few years ago I hosted a quilted block of the month and now I've started with the thread of the week or month depending on what's going in my immediate world. As you know I love thread, how it holds things together and how it dances over the surface of a quilt. Sometimes… Continue reading Thread of the Week
Before getting into todays post please pray for the repose of the soul of Joan Hawley: to say this is a stunning and heart breaking loss is an understatement. My prayers and condolences for Joan's family and the quilting community. And now please allow me to share two Quilted Features Interviews with you. First up… Continue reading More to the Story
Cultivate: Further: Encourage.Seek the society of; make friends withto improve by labor, care or study. Most words have more than one meaning, or connotation and often it takes a little time to define, understand in context, and grow in the use and definition of that word. Often this is an incorporating of the definitions and… Continue reading Cultivate
Today I celebrate Fifteen Years on WordPress! I brought my blog here from another platform where I'd been blogging for six or seven months. There are a couple of stories that are my faves including the bit about the squirrel at Christmas and the Blue Goo. And also the organizing posts (uh my studio is… Continue reading Fifteen Years on WordPress
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I did. Yesterday, 4/11/2022. I permitted my Instagram Account @terilucas to be hacked. It was stupid. And you'll be surprised to learn I did this stupid thing to ostensibly help a friend out. DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS FROM ME AND IF YOU GET A MESSAGE ASKING YOU TO RESPOND TO A TEXT MESSAGE… Continue reading Have you Ever Done Something Stupid?
I love it when there are posts in drafts. Ones that make me go huh? when I start writing. Like, what on earth was I thinking about. Well, here's what I'm thinking about today sometimes when all the thread goes kaflooie it's time to put the sewing room in time outthe sewing room is in… Continue reading I’m right on time for the next post
In just a couple of hours I'll be teaching at Poppy Quilt & Sew. I got to thinking about the definitions of my 2022 Word of the Year: Cultivate. (What's your Word?) here are two parts of the definition: to develop or improve by education or training; train; refine:to cultivate a singing voice. to promote… Continue reading 2/2/22
Normally on a Tuesday like this I'd be in the shower already getting ready to go teach the Advanced Beginner Class at Poppy Quilt & Sew and going to book study at my parish tonight. Instead I'm at my kitchen counter staying home with what is allergy related sinus thing (no temp, not achy). We've… Continue reading Well this is quite the week! Click Here.
