Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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WillieMae’s Quilting Table Story
My favorite kind of email! Good morning, I want to thank you for your video and sharing with us how you made your table. I decided to make me one. I use a Pfaff machine and the machine sits on it’s own platform which sits on the table. After making the extended table it still…
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Gina’s New Quilting Table
I love stories about solving a problem based on my ideas and Gina sent me her wonderful creation and some super pics! Just thought I’d drop you a line and show you my very recent new sewing room I feel blessed to have. We recently moved from a 1 bedroom condo to a 2 bed…
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Sarah’s Quilt
Sarah Henderson sent me the story about her quilt and a couple of pics and I LOVE it! Here’s her story: I wanted to share a picture of my completed Crazy quilt. Thanks so much for your inspiration, I loved every moment of creating this. I had so.much fun with this. What a great introduction…
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Nancy’s Quilt
Nancy just sent me a photo of her finished quilt! Here’s what she wrote: Hi Marguerita, A few months back you helped me when I was in a panic over having made my blocks too large. After much thinking, figuring and praying, I took a deep breath and did some trimming. Everything turned out to…
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Beautiful Maple Leaf Quilt
Bonnie Jenkins has sent me photos before of her quilts and here’s her newest and its story: My husband and I visited the east coast of Canada last September, just in time to see the beautiful autumn leaves. I really loved the colours of the maple leaves. When we returned home I bought a copy…
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Nouli’s Table in Athens, Greece!
Quilters, I am always left speechless when I see how far my videos reach. I’ve received questions and comments from quilters in Australia, South America, the Middle East, and now Athens, Greece about my videos. I now have over 2 million views to my videos, and this one video has over 200,000. Unbelievable. Take a…
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Tracey’s Custom Quilting Table
Tracey send me pics of her new quilting table, along with her story and a pic of her quilt 🙂 Quilters, I can’t tell you how much a difference it makes to have a flat surface to sew and quilt on, especially for machine quilting. Be sure to check out my page on COMFORT for…
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Janet’s T-Shirt Quilt
I received the nicest email from Janet about her t-shirt quilt: I was re-reading your T-shirt Quilt as you go book and decided I should send you my first t-shirt quilt. I retired in March 2016 and promised my boss I would make her a t-Shirt quilt. Well I started it in October 2015 and…
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Joanne D & Me
Joanne D and I have been emailing for a while, and I have to tell you that I— number one, admire everyone who can ask for help and —number two, love anyone who can laugh at their own mistakes. These are two qualities I value deeply, so she and I are hitting it off quite…
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Bonnie’s Sawtooth Star Quilt with Quilted Borders
I recently received the nicest note from Bonnie about a quilt she adapted to quilt-as-you-go, using methods that worked best for her. That’s my very favorite kind of story! Thank you Bonnie for sharing your quilt and your tips! Dear Marguerita and Sarah, Here is a photo of the sawtooth star block quilt I made…
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