Quilty Pleasures, Peanuts style

QuiltedComing in January is Peanuts Quilted Celebration, another one for all you crafty folk out there. It has applique designs! A CD-ROM! A foreword by Jeannie Schulz!  All brought to you by the American Quilter’s Society! Am I gonna preorder a copy of this one? Of course I am! Am I going to make a quilt? Not on your life! I have no competency at fabric-based crafts! Any quilt that I made would probably go on a murderous rampage, suffocating anyone that gets in its path in badly-made-quilt discomfort! Sure, there’s a chance that might not happen, but is it really worth taking the risk? No!

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A book I’d not expected to resurface

Back in 2011, Schulz’s granddaughter Dena Hodges issued the first two chapters of  a memoir called In the Shadow of the Family Dog. As I noted in my review at the time, the chapter and the description of the project made it clear that the focus was her relationship with …

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A box of squares

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Game Day returns

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