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		<title>Applique freedom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About 2 weeks ago, I picked up a project that has long lay dormant: a 12-block applique project designed by Alice Wilhoit called &#8220;Remember When.&#8221; My version is still in pieces, so here&#8217;s a picture of the original quilt: I saw this quilt on display at Alice&#8217;s booth during the one-and-only time I&#8217;ve managed to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pin it!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like so many other people, I&#8217;ve gotten into Pinterest recently. Quite a few of my recent recipes, quilts, and decor projects have been inspired by photos I&#8217;ve seen on the site. You can learn what Pinterest is here. I like it, but there&#8217;s an annoyance or two. One big annoyance for me is people who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palace of Sargon Applique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mom (aka my very own professional longarm quilter) sent me pictures today of the latest things she quilted: 4 of my Hawaiian applique blocks (to be made into pillows). One of those pillows comes with a story, which I wanted to share here. In 2006, in conjunction with visiting my parents in Ireland (since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UFOs &#8211; how I organize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every quilter, every sewist, every crafter (and probably every home-improvement-er, etc.) has these lying around: what&#8217;s jokingly referred to as &#8220;UFO&#8217;s&#8221; or un-finished objects. My quilting closet is packed with them. I&#8217;ve got: Quilts that just need binding attached. These I often feel worst about, since they&#8217;re *so close* to done, and since my Mom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattbecky.com/blog/2012/01/ufos-how-i-organize/</link>
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		<title>Twenty Twelve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m done with the two-thousands. 12 years into the new century (or is it 11?), I think it&#8217;s time we started calling it &#8220;twenty&#8221; rather than &#8220;two thousand.&#8221; Maybe you can call that simplification (going from three syllables to two).* Or, maybe I just like it that way. So, in twenty-twelve, for the third year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattbecky.com/blog/2012/01/twenty-twelve/</link>
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		<title>Not spoiling the surprises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A package arrived today&#8230; what might it be? A Christmas present for Matt from me, addressed to Becky Laswell A box of parchment paper I ordered for myself and need in order to finish baking cookies, addressed to Becky Laswell A Christmas gift for me from my mom, chosen from my wishlist, addressed to Rebecca [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattbecky.com/blog/2011/12/not-spoiling-the-surprises/</link>
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		<title>2011 Christmas Decorations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christmas Stockings on the Mantle New for 2011. I designed &#38; stitched both of these in less than 90 minutes. They aren&#8217;t huge, and that&#8217;s on purpose, since we don&#8217;t need excuses to buy a ton of candy to put in them! Made from batik fabric, with a cut-away snowflake shape, to match the tree [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattbecky.com/blog/2011/11/2011-christmas-decorations/</link>
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		<title>Guest Bath Re-Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While we&#8217;re overall quite satisfied with our home, there are a few things about our house that Matt &#38; I don&#8217;t love. Many of them, unfortunately, stem from bad style decisions of the former homeowners and the fact that the 1982-era builder-grade features aren&#8217;t exactly our favorite. These two sources of problems show themselves in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattbecky.com/blog/2011/11/guest-bath-re-do/</link>
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		<title>Another ornament</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;ve been stuck at the house supervising construction workers on our bathroom, I&#8217;ve been sewing &#38; crafting. I made two more ornaments yesterday: a star &#38; a wreath. Wire wrapped star Tutorial found via pinterest. I didn&#8217;t have the weight of wire recommended in the tutorial, so I just used what I found around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mini Purse &amp; Earbud Holder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a fair warning to my family members&#8230; I think most of you will be getting a hand-made gift for Christmas this year. I&#8217;ve got a lot of time &#38; creative energy, so I&#8217;ve been spending it making fun things for gifts. Some of them are little add-ons, like the ornaments in the prior post. [...]]]></description>
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