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This is not going to sound possible, but I assure you, it is. My husband passed away on the 4th. On the 9th I went to the post office and on the way home I was involved in a horrible 4 car accident and my car was totaled. I've been to the ER, two days later my regular doctor who discovered my...

I very seldom post since I sold my farm and mini horses. I just wanted to let everyone know my husband passed away on July 4. I'd like to think all those fireworks that went off that evening were for him. I'd like to say he went quietly but that was not the case. He suffered this last month...

It probably took me 400 hours or so to hand piece and hand quilt.

I am much better at quilting than I am on the computer but if you go to facebook and look for my real name: Shelley Stauffer I'm sure a picture of me beaming next to my quilt will pop right on up. LOL I was absolutely speechless.

I don't post these days since we sold our farm, but I do have a tidbit of excitement to announce. I am a quilter. I quilt to give me something to do. I can stay home and watch over hubs and quilt. Well, a local museum (The Kentucky Museum), on the campus of WKU in Bowling Green was having...

So, my daughter is a special education teacher at a high school.  She has...oh...maybe 25 kids in her caseload every year.  This year she decided, as a way to encourage her kids, she wanted to start a "smartie pants" thing.  She asked me to make her fabric pants.  When the kids do something...

I like to keep the names simple.  I like Dash of Chrome.  And you could call him Dash for short.

So, I'm scrolling thru Yahoo, reading the headlines when I come across an interesting article.  Apparently, a zoo in Cairo painted two donkeys with stripes and attempted to pass them off as zebras.  Um......like with those ears, no one would notice?  Geez

Well, this is what I am working on now.  I actually misread the instructions.  I thought it said it was comprised of 20 blocks.  That didn't seem too bad.  So I'm hand piecing up a storm and I realize....wait, that's not right.  This isn't anywhere near being large enough.  Turns out, they...

This past weekend was the Hart County Fair.  They have a large quilt show.  I didn't have a bed sized quilt to enter this year because I had shipped the only bed sized quilt to my daughter in Texas and she refused to ship it back so I could show it.  Oh well, I really don't care because she's in...

Things here could be better, actually.  But, I am tired of living with such uncertainty.  I felt that I needed answers to some questions, if for no other reason than to put some of my fears to rest.  So, keeping that in mind, I have scheduled an appointment with an attorney who specializes in...

That's right, it's a whole cloth.  I've made two large queen sized ones.  This one is actually on my bed right now.  The quilting makes the pattern, you don't piece a single thing.

I don't know why people don't respond to the one on the right.  I gave it a name:  Moroccan Fantasy.  I think it looks like some windows I've seen in pictures of Morocco and we all know I'll never get to see them in person so.........  And I'm really proud of this one because I made up the...

Yes it is.  Since I hand quilt, I knew I wanted to group the white pieces together somehow to showcase the quilting.  I'm really proud of that one as I made up the quilting pattern to fit the design, but it doesn't get a lot of attention at shows. 

I've said this before, but I quilt just to keep me from going insane.  I have decided that maybe I should enter some in local shows.  So I had entered three in a show in Red Boiling Springs, TN (a darling little town about 45 minutes from here).  Not to toot my own horn, but TOOT, TOOT, TOOT. ...

OK, sorry about that post.  Yesterday was a really tough day.  I apologize for my rant.  It's really hard caring for someone like this.  Much harder than I imagined.  And sometimes I just am so frustrated.  And really, I don't want to vent with all my friends because no one wants to hear about...

As time progresses, my husband gets a little fuzzier on how to do thingsotoo much for him to do.  In fact, he just really shuffles around without speaking while I pick up all his dirty clothes,  you know, the ones that were too dirty to put into the washing machine but are perfectly ok to leave...

You all know I've been struggling with some depression issues because of my husband being ill. I decided I needed to get out of the house a little, get away from the issue so I joined a quilt guild and a homemakers group thru the local extension office. Now granted, all these ladies are quite...