The Communique Layout
Popularized by Rhonda Dort, who uses the layout in her classes, the Communique Quilt Layout works for both featuring large fabric and panel pieces, as well as a basis for multiple block designs.
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Welcome to Mouse in My Pocket! I'm Andrea, a web developer living in rural America with her husband and daughter. I'm excited to share my life with you as I explore some of the great things about living in the middle of nowhere. Be sure to check out the blog below to see a few of the things that are speaking to me right now.
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#NaBloPoMo – Like it was in 3D
Because of my choice in college degrees, I’ve had access to 3D technology for a long time. In college, we used 3D scanners that would scan and collect data from 3d objects and create a digital 3D model that could be manipulated for animation. Of course, now things are going the other way, you can…
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#NaBloPoMo – The coolest project I’ve ever seen…
I love going to craft fairs. My mom and I try to go to at least one together every fall. There are always tons of things to see while you’re there; jewelry, wreaths, woodworking, clothes. In recent years we’ve begun to see more and more people bringing in things to sell that obviously aren’t hand…
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#NaBloPoMo – Just a touch of love.
I’m a big fan of surrounding myself with things that make me happy. At the office my walls are covered with art prints and reproduction comic book covers. The bright colors are a necessary break from staring at code all day. While at home, I surround myself with things I find a bit more calming.…
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#NaBloPoMo – Never make that again.
Today’s prompt for #NaBloPoMo was to talk about a dish I’ve attempted to make that ended in disaster. As soon as I saw this, I knew it needed to be about the time I attempted a seafood casserole. It was the 1st year my husband and I were married, and I was attempting a new…
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Project Quilting – Orphan Blocks
Today was supposed to be another #NaBloPoMo post, but I figured that talking about a finished quilt is a perfectly good reason to postpone it until tomorrow. Instead, I wanted to share with you my finished project for this week’s Project Quilting Challenge. So without further ado, I present to you “Annie.” This week’s theme…
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#OurProject52 – Motion
Motion is something that I’ve always had difficulty capturing, so I was glad to see it as the theme for this week’s #OurProject52 photo prompt. This week was also a very convenient week for the motion theme, as I was at the Indiana Farm Bureau Young Farmers conference and there is a pedal pull for…
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#NaBloPoMo – Cheesy Chicken Croissant Pockets
One of my least favorite things to do is to make dinner. It’s not that I don’t enjoy cooking. It’s that my husband can’t ever give me a straight answer about what he wants for dinner. I get a lot of “I don’t know.” and “I’m not hungry yet.” It’s hard to make dinner when…
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#NoBloPoMo – WIP Wednesday
We interrupt your regularly scheduled #NoBloPoMo for a WIP Wednesday update. With the issues I’ve been having with my machine tension lately, I’ve not gotten much sewing done in the last couple weeks, but this is a Project Quilting week, so I needed to get some sewing time in. This week’s theme was UFOs and…
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#NaBloPoMo – Where did my crafty go?
Over the last couple years I have found myself working on more fabric based projects, things like quilts and clothes. There certainly isn’t anything wrong with that, but I sometimes wonder where the rest of my crafty went. The last non-fabric craft project I made was my Raku Monk Wreath. I love how it came…
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#NaBloPoMo – Let’s DIY unless you want to DIFM
I love to DIY (do it yourself). I often take a look a quilts on display in magazines and think “I can make that.”Then I sit down with a pencil and some graph paper to figure it out, or come up with my own variation on the design. You may have seen this before on…
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#NaBloPoMo Make It
I’m happy to say that I am participating in my first #NaBloPoMo – that stands for “National Blog Posting Month.” The idea is that each day for the entire month of Feburary, I will be writing one post that is generally about this month’s topic: Make. The idea of writing up a post every single…
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Fashion Friday – Layer it on Thick
It doesn’t matter what season it is, I love to layer my clothes. But with the ridiculously cold weather we’ve been having here lately, being able to have on multiple layers of clothes has been the only thing to keep me from freezing to death. I’ve even been double layering coats! And since I never…
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