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If You Need Me, I’ll Be In The Sewing Room. Sewing.
This is the fantasy I had envisioned. Our prompt for SAHRR Round Five is a two-color whatever: block, decoration, embellishment, anything quilty. And I wanted words. I’ll explain the words when I present the…
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Curves take Stay at Home Round Robin #4 by Storm!
This is where I left Round Three of the Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR 2026), our last round. The new prompt for Round Four was “curves.” I’d been writing up my posts from…
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Carrefour VI: RachelDaisy Dodd, Ruth De Voss, Lorena Uriarte, Diane First, France Patchwork & Ulla Hoppe
This is the sixth, and final post about the Carrefour European Patchwork show 2025. The post covers: • Venue 13: Villa Burrus, with RachaelDaisy Dodd• Venue 14: Église de l’Assomption, with Ruth De Vos•…
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Carrefour V: Tania Tanti, Fiona Lindsay, Janet Bear, He Ok Chang, & Quilts from Kazakhstan
This post about the Carrefour European Patchwork show 2025 covers: • Venue 10: Chapell St. Blaise, with Tania Tanti• Venue 11: Église St. Nicolas, with a quick look at embroideries sponsored by Guldusi• Venue…
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This and That • February 2026
Update on the SAHRR for 2026: The theme for Round Three was “Animal Kingdom,” so I spent a long time scrolling through my BlockBase+ software (really, it’s Barbara Brackman’s Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns…
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SAHRR 2026 • Border Two
We Stay-At-Home Round-Robiners are now on Border Two, and the prompt, from Kathleen McMusing was ““Make It A Double.” I carried this fully into my life when we decided to rip out the ceiling…
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Two Quilt Finishes, SAHRR, and The Abyss
Flowers for Madilyn was delivered to my granddaughter Madilyn this week, so now it can show up on the blog for reals. I love sunset photos, with that golden sunlight. When I get a…
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SAHRR — I’m in!!
This is an Emergency Post of the Eastmond Quilting System (with apologies to the radio emergency broadcasts we get occasionally). But I just realized that the deadline for the: Stay At Home Round Robin…
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Our Quilty Neighborhood • Free Pattern
We quilters love to make house quilts. We love to make landscape quilts. We love to make pictures of our pets, our people. We love to use traditional blocks as well as fly far…
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This and That • January 2026
I used a new-to-me number generator, rolling electronic dice and it came up with number 10. So Karen, you are the lucky winner of the pattern. I’ve already emailed you and we’ll get the…
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Happy Old Year Ending for 2025
Happy 2026! Sharp eyes will have noticed that 12-plus thing. One quilt has not yet had its beauty portraits released, nor the pattern thing settled (I keep adding with new ideas), so while that…
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Things Didn’t Go As Planned
Or, We Stayed Home This Christmas. It certainly wasn’t intentional. We’d been planning this year-end trip with our son for four months. He and his lovely wife Kim were taking their four daughters (and…
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Merry Christmas 2025
Adoration of the ChildGerrit Van Honthorst (Utrecht 1590-1656) And here’s your Christmas quilt, Stella di Natale: (original post and info) I hope you have a lovely and merry Christmas!
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Carrefour IV: Shin-Hee Chin, Tara Glastonbury, and Janet O’Dell
This post covers: • Venue 7: Église Ste. Madeleine, with Shin-Hee Chin• Venue 8: 86 Wilson, with Tara Glastonbury• Venue 9: Chapelle St. Joseph, with Janet O’Dell I have a main Carrefour Quilt Show page that…
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Gathering Up All The Fragments • Quilt Finish
The etymology of the Economy Block is — as are many popular quilt blocks — complicated. According to Barbara Brackman’s Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns, it’s titled Economy Patch by Carrie Hall and Rose…
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Quilt Finish: Orange Sprite Phenomenon
The Blue and Cheddar quilt is finished, bound, and sent off to the recipient. If it were to have a name and a label, I would call it this: This is Quilt #311 in…
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Carrefour III: SAQA, Aotearoa Quilters, Libs Elliot, Esther Delgado, Caroline Simm, and the OZQuilt Network
This post covers: • Venue 6: Espace des Tisserands, with OZQuilt Network, Libs Elliot, Caroline Simm, Esther Delgado, and the Aotearoa Quilters I have a main Carrefour Quilt Show page that lists all the…
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Carrefour II: Lois Parish Evans, Ina Statescu, AFHAM, and ValPatch Quilters
This post covers: • Venue 2: Osmont Pavillion, with Lois Parish Evans• Venue 3: Église St. Louis, with Ina Statescu• Venue 4: Église des Chaînes, with the French Ananbaptist and Mennonite History Society (AFHAM)•…
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This and That • November 2025
Dropping off the face of the quilty universe has one advantage: you get some sewing done. But first, let me talk about the Carrefour Quilt Show (France) posts. All discussions of any project begin…
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Build Me a Cabin of Light
Remember this cartoon from a couple of posts ago? Well, I decided to break the secret rules about Blocks of the Month quilt-a-longs and decided to finish up my quilt at Month Nine. The…
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Tiny Victories are Still Victories
Rookie Mistakes could be another title, even though I don’t consider myself a rookie. Both of these ideas are true for me this week. I’ve had Krakow Circles kicking around since Spring, and when…
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Carrefour Quilt Show 2025: Intro and Part I
I’ve now been to the Carrefour Quilt Show in the Alsace area of France three times, and this is start of my third write-up of that amazing experience. The Carrefour Show is like none…
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This and That • October 2025 • Quilt Finish
Boo! This latest finish had a few mothers: 1) a bag of scraps from mine and Leisa’s Halloween in the Vegetable Patch quilt, and… 2) a need to make a quick quilt, which Azulejos…
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Summer Flowers • Quilt Finish • Etc.
The title of this quilt pattern is Posh Penelope, and as one commenter said, “That is a name that needs to be changed.” So I did. Summer Flowers is quilt #307 and measures 80″…
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Paris Mercerie (Fabric) & Paris Markets
Now, where were we? Everyone travels for different reasons. Some to go to a place and look around. Some to escape the routine and breathe some fresh air. Me? I go for fabric. Okay,…
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New York Beauties • Quilt Finish
New York Beauties took a long time to get here: about three years. Started in 2022 from the spark of an idea, with a pillow of four New York Beauty blocks, it quickly morphed…
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This and That • August 2025
Since today is the 30th, I slid August’s This and That right under the wire. For those who are new here (and thank you for subscribing) I often do a “This and That” post…
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