The 2015 New Quilt Bloggers Week 3 is underway. The Sewcial Swarm hive has the following bloggers who have posted this week about the blog hop.
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Check them out:
And, you can visit the hive queens for fun giveaways:
Terri Ann at Childlike Fascination;
Yvonne at Quilting Jetgirl;
Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs, and
Stephanie at Late Night Quilter.
That’s what I’m doing,
Wanda
I spend quite a bit of time in my home office, mostly telecommuting for my job. I decided it needed a facelift. For the first project, I wanted a chalkboard wall. Over the weekend I painted a wall with black chalkboard paint. I used one quart of Valspar, two coats. I considered Dry Erase by Rust-Oleum, but one container covered only 7 by 7 feet and my wall was 8 by 11 feet. I used my regular paintbrush and roller. I was worried the brush lines would show, but it didn’t, so you don’t need to use a foam brush.
Like any paint project, it’s good to “cut in” first. –photo by nora paige davis.
My lovely husband, Dave, found me a chalkboard eraser. He’s been teaching for more than twenty-five years and remembers when chalkboards were in every classroom. Apparently they are no longer in demand and have been replaced by dry erase boards. Continue reading
This is the beginning. I’ve read through some of the tutorials on how to create a blog, and my head feels like it is going to explode. Picking the name was very difficult. I had so many ideas, and I didn’t want to use a name someone else was using. I first chose Fussy Cuts — that’s when you pick a part of a fabric you want to use because it’s special in some way; for example, a flower you want to center in the middle of your block. Anyway, I found a website with that name and a business with that name, and it just wasn’t special enough. I finally decided on Wanda’s Life Sampler. It is a metaphor of my life, something different in every block, like a quilt sampler.
Introducing: Wanda’s Life Sampler. Now what?
