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Best Cutting Video

Debbie Caffrey is *The Power Quilter* and her book, Power Cutting, has the best cutting technique I’ve ever seen.  She has also written many strip piecing books. Thanks for the demo, Debbie!

February 10, 2009 | 4 Comments | Read More

Kindness

Commit a random act of thoughtfulness: compliment someone

or thank another for their help, inspiration or kindness.

January 30, 2009 | Leave comment | Read More

Quotes

 
Good Morning!
For those of you who are new and may not understand, I am your Queen of Quotes.
It is my assigned task to search out and present quotes that will inspire,
motivate or just speak to you. I try to make these relevant to using up that
stash, the world we live in, and life in general. I hope this week’s quotes do
so. I particularly like the quote about habit. I am currently trying to cut
the cable of deficit spending and feel as though each …

January 30, 2009 | Leave comment | Read More

No-Buy Status December 31, 2008

There are at least 75 members of Stashbuster who are participating in the No-Buy Challenge. A few of those that I know that signed up are just doing No-Buy on their own, and there are several other members who posted that they are doing No-Buy on their own. So I don’t have any official count of everyone who is doing No-Buy. (And one or two members announced they are doing Low-Buy.) What I can say is that I have received the sign-up charms from 53 people …

December 31, 2008 | 2 Comments | Read More

Machine Quilting Bubbles with Pat Sloan

 

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Email your story and photos!

Stashbusters, if you are not used to Wordpress or blogging and you want to see your quilt story here but *don't want* to deal with posting, email your story and pics (or links to pics) to marguerita.mcmanus @ gmail.com (take out spaces)

Is Stashbusters for you?

Do you have more stash than you know what to do with? Have you ever bought the same pattern or book twice, not remembering that you already own it? Are you overloaded with WIPS (Works In Progress) and PIPS (Projects in Plastic Sacks)? Do you have stash hidden all around the house and are you swarmed with UFO's? (Un-Finished Objects)

We can help! We have a No Buy Group to help you learn to "buy" from your stash first, a UFO Challenge to help you organize and finish your "almost done" projects, a 100 Yard Dash from Stash Challenge to help you use up the fabrics that you have and best of all, monthly We have Stay-at-home-Retreats! and much, much more!

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