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		<title>Do You Believe in Fairy Tales?</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/12/16/do-you-believe-in-fairy-tales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a child, occasionally my mother would bring out an oversized book that was loaded with the most beautiful and mysterious-looking art work I had ever seen at that tender age. The book&#8217;s name was simply The Fairy Tale Book. My mother safeguarded it by keeping it in her bedroom on the lower shelves of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Weather and Other Considerations in New England: Musings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The frequent weather changes in New England are excellent! After all, they give the locals something to chaw about and speculate on. In the midst of the heat wave last summer, with unbearable humidity, I knew that the day would soon be coming when we would not only have to pay for heat again but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Snow Birds&#8221; and Other Considerations: Musings about the Change of Seasons</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/10/27/snow-birds-and-other-considerations-musings-about-the-change-of-seasons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photos of quilts with scarecrows are quickly being replaced by fellow quilters who are now posting their quilts with snowmen, in online venues. It is true. Late fall is quickly giving way to an early winter as the first snow is predicted today in New England. It&#8217;s time &#8220;to batten down the hatches,&#8221; as they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quilts: A Discussion</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/10/20/quilts-a-discussion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Quilts &#8220;Matter&#8221;: A Quilt Discussion by Patricia L. Cummings This particular quilt which I named &#8220;Die Gedanken Sind Frei&#8221; is composed of reproduction blocks based on various antique quilts in my collection or traditional quilt blocks I have made to illustrate designs for published (printed magazine) articles when originals were not available. I started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/09/29/the-world-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When one studies history, it is very easy to see repeating trends and to begin to understand the similarities of people, even when centuries divide them. What always readily comes to mind when trying to reach any overall conclusion about recorded history is the willingness of humans to persecute and damage others because of differing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Town v. Big City America</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/09/15/small-town-v-big-city-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my youth, I was privileged to have lived in a city as well as a small town. The differences were stunning, when I look back. The city was less personal and less friendly. In the country, if a person were standing outside when a car passed by, the automatic response was a hand raised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Time for Every Season Under Heaven</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/09/10/a-time-for-every-season-under-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, I am thinking of the song, &#8220;Turn, Turn, Turn&#8221; made famous by the Bryds and based on a Biblical passage that includes the words &#8220;A time for every season under heaven.&#8221; We all go through transitions in our personal lives. The most obvious change is that we grow from innocent children into experienced adults. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clothes: Then and Now</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/08/31/clothes-then-and-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every autumn as the new school year begins, I can&#8217;t help but think back to when I was a child and the frenzied shopping trips with my mom to buy new school clothes. Inevitably, she would pick out wool skirts, wool sweaters, new knee socks, and yes, penny loafers! Even then, long before global warming, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Quilting: Its Ebbs and Flows</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/08/28/the-art-of-quilting-its-ebbs-and-flows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quilting has been popular for centuries! The involvement of men as quilters is not a new situation. We need look back no further than the story of &#8220;Joe the Quilter&#8221; in England. (I previously blogged about &#8220;Joe.&#8221;) Today, quilting is a multi-billion dollar business worldwide, in part due to the involvement of men. In some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on a Rainy Day</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/08/15/thoughts-on-a-rainy-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this rainy New England day, my thoughts turn to the time of the Civil War and all of sufferings the Union soldiers endured. Mucking through swamps and rivers, they often slept unprotected on the ground, subject to ants, scorpions and other creatures crawling up their pants legs. While on the march, food often consisted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Charged Subjects&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/07/30/charged-subjects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt about it. Unless people are dishonest or simply don&#8217;t care about others in the world, most have opinions when it comes to the hot topics of politics, race and religion. Some folks prefer to be silent publicly on all three topics. Others, historically speaking, have shared their thoughts with the world, in one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Thoughts to Consider</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/07/17/good-thoughts-to-consider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dyer&#8217;s Chamomille photo by James Cummings I love it when people post thoughts with meaning, especially ideas that one can incorporate to live a better life. One such thought is this: &#8220;No one can call a day successful until he has done a favor for someone else that cannot possibly be repaid.&#8221; This concept is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Appliqué?</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/07/10/do-you-applique/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some quilters are totally frightened at the prospect of doing appliqué and yet it is one of the most enjoyable types of quilting to do, if one knows how! That seems to be the key: the word &#8220;if.&#8221; I must have been very lucky to have been taught how to appliqué by a couple of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Happiness is Seeing Lubbock in the Rear View Mirror&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/07/05/happiness-is-seeing-lubbock-in-the-rear-view-mirror/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/07/05/happiness-is-seeing-lubbock-in-the-rear-view-mirror/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this little essay are the words of a song. To me the phrase, &#8220;happiness is seeing Lubbock in the rear view mirror,&#8221; could be extrapolated to sum up our feelings when we have completed any journey in life that we are happy has come to an end. The words speak of new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On my way&#8230; as are you! Rambling Thoughts for the Day</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/06/06/on-my-way-as-are-you-rambling-thoughts-for-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the style of Martin Luther King, I could tell you that &#8220;I&#8217;ve been to the mountain and I&#8217;ve seen the promised land.&#8221; So saying, he got to the promised land, sooner than anyone would have thought he would. Words can be prophetic. Choose them wisely. The only thing I can honestly say is that [...]]]></description>
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