Link Roundup: Quilt patterns edition

I’m really excited for my wife. She showed some of her quilt patterns to the owner of a local quilt store, and the owner has decided to give a trial run to ten of her patterns! She loves designing quilts so this is a big deal. She’s also gearing up for a craft show. A few of her patterns are here, and she blogs about quilting as well.

Here are some posts I pieced together from the great blogs in my reader:

Mrs. Micah talks about anchoring as it applies to credit card minimum payments.
Get Rich Slowly shares almost three dozen make-it-yourself gift ideas from his readers and other sources.
Paid Twice gives five concrete tips for paying yourself first.
Money Ning combines financial and physical well-being with this post.
Green Panda Treehouse saved money with her own cable-phone-internet bundle.
Smart Spending lists a number of Black Friday deal sites.
Wisdom Journal offers some sound advice for weathering the dark economic cloud.
Think Your Way to Wealth considers whether $2 gas is good or bad.
Five Cent Nickel reports on the 2009 tax brackets.
Don’t Mess with Taxes celebrates three years of tax blogging.
All Financial Matters picked up on the guaranteed retirement account movement. (Also known as Social Security 2.0.)
Free Money Finance has a guest post on giving generously during hard times.
The Simple Dollar posts on investing in skills for the slippery slope down.
Chief Family Officer is very thankful for her family’s emergency fund.

Mighty Bargain Hunter’s Carnival participation:

The Digerati Life included my income streams post in last week’s Carnival of Personal Finance.
Money Ning included my forget the lolcats post in this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance.
Simply Forties chose my basics of debt reduction post as an Editor’s Pick for this week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction. Thank you!

Have a great week!

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4 Responses to “Link Roundup: Quilt patterns edition”
By Green Panda on Nov 18, 2008 | Reply

Thanks for the mention. I’m really happy your wife has a chance to show her talents. I hope it works out for her.
By Cathy @ Chief Family Officer on Nov 18, 2008 | Reply

Thanks for the mention, MBH! And congratulations and good luck to your wife – it sounds like a dream come true!
By Mrs. Micah on Nov 18, 2008 | Reply

That sounds awesome!!! I’d never thought of selling a quilt pattern, but hers look worth it. I do love sitting down with my graphing paper and colored pencils and coming up with patterns, even if I don’t use one. I did this one on holyhocks that I just love but probably won’t ever sew, maybe I should formalize it. Just for fun.

Thanks for mentioning my post and for mentioning her quilting blog, I’m checking it out.
By Ron@TheWisdomJournal on Nov 21, 2008 | Reply

Thanks for the mention!

One of my favorite memories was going to see my great-grandmother when I was a little kid. My younger brother, my cousin, and I would sleep in a double bed with 100 lbs of home-made quilts piled on top of us. She and my great-grandfather lived in the country and didn’t run the heater at night. I can remember sleeping so soundly, probably because I couldn’t move!

Great memories …