Create Custom Colors in Electric Quilt

When you sit down with EQ to design a new quilt, how do you color it? Do you always use fabric swatches? Do you ever use solid colors? For either choice, do you pick colors randomly or do you have a color palette in mind?
I’m imagining that your answers might skew more to fabric swatches [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

To my family far away and friends near and far, I wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving and hope you’re able to spend the day with those you love. Our son-in-law Kevin is stationed at Lackland AFB in San Antonio for basic training and will be away from his bride until after Christmas. 
I love this [...]

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Old man Winter

Huh? In the middle of November? I heard on the radio this morning that it’s snowing in Dinwiddie, which is about 30-some-odd miles southeast of here. Saw on the web that it’s snowing or flurrying in Louisa, which is a tad west of us so if we’re going to get any of this, it’ll come [...]

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Cyberbass

I am a church singer. Alto. I’m not a soloist but I do ok in a group. I’m proud to be a church singer, the experience has exposed me to a lot of beautiful music I probably would never have heard otherwise. 
Next month, we are performing this:

It’s a doozy. Besides a lot of clashing notes [...]

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Storm clouds

So I ran over to WalMart this afternoon to pick up a few things and when I came out of the store, this is what I saw:

John had told me earlier that we were under a tornado watch today and these clouds certainly looked threatening enough for that. But so far, nothing that I’m aware [...]

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Putt-putt for United Way

We had a putt-putt tournament at the agency the other day to benefit United Way. This was a lot of fun. It was a 9-hole course and each hole was concepted and built by department teams all over the building. Quite a bit of engineering went into these designs. For example, the Media team built [...]

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Scalloped potatoes

Our favorite family cookbook is out of print. Published in 1969 by the Knudsen Corporation, a dairy company in Los Angeles, the recipes in Cooking for Compliments focus on dairy products (naturally) and there isn’t one I’ve tried that we haven’t liked. From time to time my daughter, the new bride, will ask for a [...]

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Weekend grab bag

Just a little silliness before the work week starts up again:

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Freehand drawing in EQ6

I went to Quilting Adventures yesterday intending to buy one of the five Electric Quilt’s “Quiltmaker Quilting Designs” software packages, but they aren’t carrying any of them at the moment. So instead, I bought Angie Padilla’s “EQ6 Applique Drawing.” Am I glad I did. Besides all of the wonderful tips and insight Angie has about [...]

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“I can’t visualize something unless I see it first”

I read that line in a detective novel of all places, but it describes me to a “T” (and where does that saying come from, I wonder?). I must have some kind of cerebral short circuit that doesn’t allow me to imagine what something could look like without seeing it. That’s why I’ll never be [...]

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