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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It’s Getting Crazy
As you may have read in some of my previous posts (here, here, here, here, and here), I’m working on a crazy quilt. I got a lot done on it over the weekend. My original plan for the quilt involved sashing the 12-inch blocks in a dark grey – something like Kona Cotton in Charcoal. …
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Kayla’s Getting Married
As I mentioned in my last post, we had a bridal shower for my little sister last weekend. I was a lot of fun, but it was also a lot of work. I shouldn’t complain about it thought, I had a lot of help. As the matron of honor, it was technically my job to host…
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Super Secret Revealed
The super secret project is finally finished! For those of you who didn’t know what it was, I made my sister Kayla a quilt as a wedding present and gave it to her as her Bridal Shower yesterday. While I was making this quilt, I noticed a few things that are the same about quilting…
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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
This is the recipe for the “healthy” cookies I made for my sister Kayla’s bridal shower. Everyone seemed to like them well enough. Even with the cake, chocolate chunk cookies, and sugar cookies, I didn’t have many left. Ingredients: 1 cup butter, softened 1 cup sugar 1 cup packed brown sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon…
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Fashion Friday – Geek Chic
Going though my old Fashion Friday posts, I’ve noticed that I’m wearing a dress or a skirt in almost all of them. Now, I do love a good dress, but I don’t always dress up. I think it’s about time you see what I wear outside of the office (and sometimes in it). Today’s Fashion Friday is…
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Shopping Spree
Every year my mom and I go shopping for my birthday. This year was no different, even if we did have to do it about a month after my actual birthday. – Working on Kayla’s wedding, and life in general seems to keep most of my weekends booked – but we finially both got a…
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Achievement Day
The Gibson County Extension Homemakers held their annual Achievement Day on Thursday May 3rd. My club was in charge of the decorations. Since the banquet is on a Thursday, I didn’t get to go. Not all homemakers are stay at home – I have a job. But the club did get together on Wednesday night…
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Still Super Secret
As some of you may remember, I’m working on a Super Secret Project. You can read about it here, and here. I’ve been done with the part of the project I could complete myself since about Christmas. Because I’m not magically super talented, I had to enlist some help for the final steps. I’m happy…
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That’s Crazy!
I’m super excited about about my crazy quilt project. I’ve completed a total of 19 blocks so far. That mean’s I’m 75% through the crazy quilt blocks. Here are some photos of the completed blocks:
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Kayla’s a Graduate
It was a super busy weekend at our house this weekend. I spent most of Saturday down in Evansville to attend my little sister Kayla’s college graduation. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Math and Chemistry Education from University of Southern Indiana. It was interesting to go to her graduation, because I…
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Wit & Wisdom
Last night, Matt & I went to see Steve Smith – better known to many as “Red Green“. For those of you who might have never heard of him before, Red Green was the “host” of a show called “Red Green” which ran on PBS stations in the US. WNIN, our local PBS station ran…
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Birthday Shopping
I love my husband, but I have decided that he is officially the hardest person to shop for – ever. I went down to Evansville, after work, earlier this week to find him something for his birthday. I started out at Barnes & Noble, thinking I might pick him up a book or two. He…
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