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Azulejos Pattern
There’s this interesting explanation in a Wrinkle in Time, or at least I remember it and hope it’s there, where the main character tries to help the children understand this concept of a shortcut…
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Keagan’s Quilt • Quilt Finish
The year 1666 was the first recorded use of the word “minimal.” That was also the year, according to the Merriam-Webster Time Traveller feature, where the word “pandemic” was first turned up. I looked…
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I Hear America Singing • Quilt Finish
Where does patriotism come from? The title for my quilt, “I Hear America Singing,” is from a poem by poet Walt Whitman. Today he might have been considered a type of patriotic American —…
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Abecedary • Late June 2021
A is for Abecedary, or a way of organizing this post. It’s also the name of my Lecture I present to Guilds, and I’m coming up on my last Abecedary of Quilts lecture next…
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The Flowering Snowball Block Grows Up
Now where were we? I think we left the Flowering Snowball block here: Don’t get me wrong…that was a good place to leave it, and I still might try to make this version of…
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Flowering Snowball Block • New PatternLite
One of the members of the Gridster Bee chose the Flowering Snowball for her block this month, and I was sort of: hmmm, nice block. But when I started playing around with the sewing…
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Sun and Sea • New Pattern
How long do you keep owing someone a favor? Do you give up after a month? A year?About FIVE years ago, Michael contacted me for a pattern for one of my quilts: an older…
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Quilt Finish: Blue and White Star for David
This quilt started on Zoom. Several weeks ago as our family was having their weekly Zoom get-together, my brother hinted (strongly) that he wouldn’t mind having one of my quilts, you know, in blues–lots…
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Is a Tablerunner a Quilt?
When you are stuck, it is. I love those houses, but…No. New favorite. I ordered two more yards. I love having scraps of batting that are just the right size. Letting us both rest…
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Bisa Butler • World of Color and Artistry
Bisa Butler recently mounted her first museum exhibition at the Art Institure of Chicago and “surmounted biases in the contemporary art world against both people of color and fiber arts” as Deborah Brehmer puts…
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This and That • May 2021
This has been a busy week, with zooming and teaching at the Orange Grove Quilters Guild, but I’ve managed a few things around the edges. This was April’s Gridster block, requested by Nancy. She…
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Who Gets to Make Art?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about our world of quilts, and by that I don’t mean the larger world–just our own little world. I’ve made some hideous quilts, some use-up-this-fabric quilts (above), some…
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Fly those Geese!
When I first starting making this quilt, I cut each flying geese block by hand because I was not able to rotary cut. I drew out the lines, cut a triangle, and piled up…
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Wealth of Days • Quilt Finish
Wealth of DaysQuilt no. 24757″ wide by 70 1/2″ high From my journal9 January 2019: “Here we go again. Today I had rotator cuff repair surgery on the right arm. My little joke is…
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Build Me A House
I dream of houses. I dream of houses with quilt blocks on their sides, or quilty houses I can make any size. This started when I was asked to help beta test for BlockBase+…
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Build a Medallion Quilt with Elizabeth and BlockBase+
Sunny Flowers • quilt #246 • 54″ square Welcome back to BlockBase+ Week! In this post, Post #2 of BB+ week, we’ll build a medallion quilt. UPDATE: Giveaway Contest is closed. Thanks for entering!…
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A Week of Creativity using BlockBase+ • Giveaway!
Sunny Flowers • quilt no. 246 • 54″ square This is BlockBase+ week, and in one week, I’ll be giving away a free copy of the software! UPDATE: Giveaway is Closed. Thanks to all…
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First Monday Quilt
In December 2019, a few young friends had wanted to learn to quilt, so we met together in a group we called First Monday Sew-days. It was a short-lived enterprise, collapsing into covid in…
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Renewal
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” TS Eliot, Four Quartets Where I started…
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Thieves Meet Old Woman
At least that’s what Google Translate said it meant, when I typed in… …which is the newest song for the newest dance craze, introduced to me by my daughter on Instagram as well as…
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Thoughts on Constructing a Quilt Block
Note: This post has been updated (March 2024), with notes on the pattern and the quilt. See below. Recently I had a chance to do some beta-testing on BlockBase+, which is a revised version…
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Book Reviews & Giveaway
The linking went like this: teaching at Surfside Guild –> looking at their website to get to know them –> finding their Block of the Month page –> jumping up and down because now…
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Memorium: Speech Acts for a Dying World
Speech Acts for a Dying World19″ high by 20″ wide I thought a long time about whether to alter this quilt’s perfect original symmetry of twenty inches square. The design, by Yvonne Fuchs, called…
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Rounding the Corner into Spring: This and That for March 2021
I’m leading with this photo, the green leaves just beginning to bud out on the airy branches at the park where I walk most days. It’s three laps, 2.2 miles, almost 4 km, then…
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Wealth of Days • Quilt Top Finish
As a culture we are in danger of falling out of touch, not only with objects, but with the intelligence they embody: the empathy that is bound up in tangible things….A well-made object is…
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This and That • February 2021
Little three-year-old Gio came to live with my son Chad and his wife Kristen last year, and when this February rolled around, I decided that he had become, in effect, my grandson, and in…
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Picties and Verities • Quilt Finish
Finally! This baby has a new name: Picties and Verities. What, you ask? Well, that phrase was in a poem I read about a thousand years ago, and I liked it and wrote it…
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