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Sawtoothmania • Reflections on Fertile Ground
All the signatures of the Gridsters, who contributed blocks to the quilt top. All photographs above by my husband or I, taken from a frontage road on the 680 freeway, to the west of…
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Criss-Cross Color • Quilt Finish
The quilting by Kelley of Wolf Girl Quilts really looks lovely in this light. IKEA fabric, from back in the day: a series of numbers. It was what I had. All photographs above by…
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Christmasy Shine Blocks • Gloria in Excelsis Deo!
Okay, you just have to see the creativity of my friend who pattern-tested all the later Shine blocks — the last few I’ve been talking about. The originals, you are familiar with. Now I’m…
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SHINE: The Circles Quilt with QuiltMania • Final Group
My original Shine quilt had sixteen blocks, done in multi-color fabrics, a bright and sunny quilt. I built them one-by-one, drawing them on paper at first, and had them free here on my website.…
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Pomegranates • Giveaway
Where does inspiration begin? Does it start here? How about both places? Today is a pattern announcement, a quilt top done announcement and the best part: a giveaway! My friend, Kenna Ogg of Madison…
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Weary | Hopeful
Blog-writing for other organizations can sometimes make me weary. I’ve been the blog-writer for a local guild here, and the other day — Blog Writing Day, as I like to call it, when everything…
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Shining my way through this season
This is my reaction to the election fol-de-rol. Actually it’s my granddaughter Maddy’s, when she was just born (she’s soon to be 12 this year!). I’m totally patriotic (witness all my RWB blocks) and…
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Sweet November 2020 • This and That
Okay, I love giveaways but I hate choosing the winner. So many of you had the best Christmas wishes, from fabrics to new sewing rooms, to visiting your left kidney (thank you Allison in…
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Giveaway! Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns
The new edition of this classic — which every quilter should have on their desk — is a quilter’s dream come true. It has clean illustrations of the blocks, as well as a depiction of the…
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Triad Harmony Workshop
A song from my childhood always pops into my head when I start my Zoom classes, bright and early, on Saturday morning. It’s something about “bright, smiling faces” that are “all in their places,”…
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Spectral Light
My husband is a photographer who specializes in small landscapes: detailed shots of flowers that he finds around our neighborhood. Since we live in a climate that is temperate, we have plants from Brazil,…
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Choose Something Like a Star: Quilt Finish
Choose Something Like a StarQuilt #23829″ high by 33″ wide Biography of this quilt Titles consideredChoose Something Like a Star (from a poem by Robert Frost)Playful Star (from a haiku by Tada Chimako)Double StarBinary…
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SHINE: QuiltMania Collaboration, part 2
When I searched this morning in Google for how many days until the United States Presidential Election, the questions it prompted me for were these: So, if we are going to have a zombie…
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stars shining brightly
This is the second sawtooth star quilt top I made during the Time of Covid, but that first one is still awaiting quilting. One night, dragging around, looking for something to do besides all…
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This and That: Pattern Release, Quilts, and Variations on the Puss-in-the-Corner Block
Recently QuiltMania Magazine and I entered into a collaboration — one of those collaborations that finds you in the middle of the night cleaning out the front closet, or tidying up the bookcase in…
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Creatives Talk
Somewhere between the shock of a pandemic shutting the entire world down and its ripple effects, and this month’s realization that this quarantine stuff — if everyone plays nice — will probably go on…
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SHINE: The Circles Quilt • Collaboration with QuiltMania
First I’m going to tell you the short version. Shine is going back out into the world again, this time in collaboration with QuiltMania Magazine. If you are a subscriber to their newsletter, you’ll…
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New Mask Pattern • Sept. 2020
I found a new mask pattern that I think will be the best one yet. It’s from the Japanese Sewing Books site, and she has multiple sizes on one page, or you can download…
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Triad Harmony • Quilt Finish
Annularity now has a little sister, and her name is Triad Harmony. Triads that harmonize are found in color wheels and in music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music notes that “Zarlino was the first…
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Criss-Cross Color
It has been a good month, a month of Criss-Crossing with the Criss-Cross Quilt pattern. After getting over my terror of Zooming, and finding I really quite liked it a LOT, I jumped in…
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This and That • August 2020
I’m teaching another live-online class today, and placed the Criss-Cross Christmas on the design wall, then layered on the Criss-Cross Autumn, and when I started making colorful blocks for another version, up they went…
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Criss-Cross Autumn Quilt Top
I’m getting ready to do a live-online presentation and teaching at Glendale Quilt Guild next week, and a deadline always sends my I-should-try-this into overdrive. So while I have the Criss-Cross pattern up online,…
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Zoom, Part 3: Follow-up Workshop
This morning, we had part three of our Zoom experience: a Workshop Follow-Up, the final meeting together. I designed my Zoom structure from the point of view of a student, and something I would…
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Live-Online Class • Technical Side of Things
First, I apologize for sending out two posts right after one another. This is the nuts and bolts side of setting up a Live-Online Class, one where you will be hosting the class, but…
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Zooming a Live-Online Class
Having run through the vocabalary of descriptors for what happened this week, I think calling this a Live-Online Class is the best term. This wasn’t an Online Class, where you pay your money to…
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Zooming into 2020
By now we all know what a Zoom conference is, we know not to angle the phone so people see up our noses, we know not to have a crunchy three-course meal on the…
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Basic String Piecing • First Monday Sewday Lesson (and a few other things)
This month’s First Monday Sew-day Lesson was on teaching the newbie quilters about String Piecing, or Strip Piecing, or whatever you want to call it, but it involved laying out a shape on paper,…
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