With Heart and Hands: A Quilting Journey

• Pink Gloves Dance

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  Watch this fabulous YouTube video from the staff of Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Portland Oregon. It features 200 staff members...everybody from nurses, to cafeteria workers, to sanitation patrol to securty. With the help of Emily MacInnes Somers, who created the idea, choreographed and then [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  by Michele's Quilting Journey

• Black, Red, Blue, and Spotted Friday

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  In the United States, the term Black Friday refers to the day after Thanksgiving and the first 'official' shopping day for the Christmas season. The day was originally so named because of the heavy traffic on that day, when all one could see was massive amounts [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:10am EST
  by Michele's Quilting Journey

• We Give Thanks

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  During a time, when America was in turmoil, when citizens doubted the abilities of their President, and when hope for a brighter future was fading...our President, Abraham Lincoln...issued a proclamation and began the American tradition of the official holiday known as 'Thanksgiving.'
  
  BY THE PRESIDENT [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 12:29pm EST
  by Michele's Quilting Journey

• It is in the giving....

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  .....that I receive.
  
  And each and every one of these small items given forth to another this year, brings me blessings at the mere thought of being able to give to another.
  
  I feel so blessed to have had enough, to be able [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:12pm EST
  by Michele's Quilting Journey

• Whirlygiggles

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  Whirlygiggles have been turning their scrappy little cartwheels across my sewing studio floor, tables, and sewing machine all week long. Also known as Scrappy Cartwheels, the template based quilt block is an oldie but goodie, with a new twist and a slightly [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:58am EST
  by Michele's Quilting Journey

• Bereavement Quilts

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  Often, when babies are born far too soon, and don't survive their transition, they are either wrapped in a tiny quilt, or the family is given the opportunity to choose one to bring home with them. ...they become precious mementos of caring and love, extended by' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:19am EST
  by Michele's Quilting Journey

• Veterans Day: A Day Meant to Honor Peace

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  Veterans Day wasn’t always “Veterans Day.” It used to be called by another name.
  
  In the year 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the Allies and Germany came together at Rethondes, France, and signed an armistice that ended [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:24am EST
  by Michele's Quilting Journey

• Donating a Quilt: Fort Hood

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  Cherri, of Cherry House Quilts, has a son Spc. Luke House, who is the command executive assistant, STB, III Corp, at Fort Hood, who was working on base, when the Ford Hood tragedy killed 12 people and wounded 31.
  
  Cherri has spent her life making [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:45am EST
  by Michele's Quilting Journey