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Our (Property) Values from Sew Preeti Quilts

The year was 2005. I was working as a junior planner in Fort Lauderdale. Broward County was conducting a public hearing on a proposed light rail line connecting the western part of the county to downtown Fort Lauderdale.

The beginning

Before Touch-up

After Touch-up (Head, Flower & Shoe completed)

Growing Trees

Roofs under Construction

Colorful Tiles!!!

Housing Project

I remember arriving at the venue about 4:00PM, setting up easels showing the area maps, flip boards and markers, and sign in sheets with several pens. The event began at 6:00PM with a formal presentation from the Florida Department of Transportation ...

added by Preeti 4 years, 1 month ago. under cat , children's quilt , elections , franchise , house blocks , lap quilt , picnic quilt , property values , puppy , throw quilt , tree block , vote

A Fail and a Few Finishes from Fret Not Yourself

'Home is the place where, when you have to go there,

They have to take you in.'

'I should have called it

Something you somehow haven't to deserve.'

~ The Death of the Hired Man

by Robert Frost

My mother used to quote the first two lines to us but I didn't know the author although I'd read many of Frost's poems. I'm fortunate to have a large family that gets along. We write; we call; we visit. What a blessing to just belong to this group; people who have known you all your life. {Although ...

added by Ann 4 years, 8 months ago. under book recommendation , phillip pullman , pillowcases , shadow star , tree block

Placement Matters from Fret Not Yourself

"There are many kinds of selfishness in this world, but the most selfish is hoarding time,

because none of us know how much we have,

and it is an affront to God to assume there will be more."

~Mitch Alborn in Finding Chika

We are all doing what we can to fight this virus - the bravest on the front lines, the rest of us donating to charities, tipping delivery people heavily, and staying home.

Homemade masks

I made 40 masks this week with my tightest weave fabric for the front, cotton t-shirts for lining, and polyester or quilting thread to ...

added by Ann 4 years, 8 months ago. under book recommendation , mary pipher , tree block

Trees and Totes from Fret Not Yourself

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong. These are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

~Winston Churchill

Trees might be a possible border for Shadow Stars. If not there they could make a good quilt on their own. It took lots of drawing to determine which variation would work best. How many leaves on each side? How tall or short should the trunk be? Does it need roots or not? And since I want ...

added by Ann 4 years, 9 months ago. under designing a block , face masks , tote bags , tree block

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