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Managed to tug myself out of bed, get dressed and get on the act of incorporation bus to the Chicago show on Saturday prime of day. This after a night of tossing and meander and sitting up to direct the eye at the clock entirely too not seldom . . . terrified I would oversleep and fail to reach the bus! Made the bus . . . forgot my camera!

I did surprisingly well on my fabric commons. I bought a two charm packs for my Civilized War Love Culture stash. Then I grabbed four fat cantonments in a watermelon press, and a watermelon peel print . . . absence to make the salt and water dish original, and call it, "Watermelon Pickles"! I had right posted a memorandum in my journal of ideas to do an inchworm quilt . . . found edifice with tape measures all over it, so I bought that for borders. The Pfaff booth had fat stations for $1.49, and I found an pungent green impress for my Civil War stash, and sharp out three others for a friend who couldn't bring into being the trip. I got a small packet of palm and fingers-dyed wools for my dear companion, Laura. My ultimate fabric buy was two five-dollar seize violently bags from the Tiny Quilts booth. My friends all cachinnation at my addiction to seize violently bags. There were lots of Moda's and Andover prints, and many WOF cuts. Yesterday, out of inquisitiveness, I measured the WOF cuts and came up with a entire yardage of 6.5 yards. That didn't contain the squares and strips narrower than 5 inches, and odd shaped scraps. Lots of them will go into my Civilized War stash. I mistrust buying 6.5 yards more of fabric is falling off the regimen, but I only spent $10 on it, so I reflect I'll count it as scraps!

I piked up three spools of Aurifil slender cord for piecing . . . regard with affection this thread. I put a spool on my machine in January, and have pieced at least three quilt tops, and I'm still only halfway down the spool. It's a definite fine filament, that seems to permit the line of juncture allowances to lay flatter. Good in the highest degree of all, it doesn't lint up my machine.

I bought an applique quilt model from Primitive Gatherings, and while permanent in the check-out...

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