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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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Made to Withstand the Proof of Time
As quilters, we have an relationship to time. We begin something, knowing it won’t be done for days, or months or even years. We work towards a daily or weekly goal of finishing the…
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Happy Seventh of July Block!
Yes, it’s Happy Seventh of July! On this day in 1928, sliced bread was sold for the first time. What other significance does this day hold? It’s National Chocolate Day! I could just stop…
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Happy Sixth of July!
I think I sense a pattern here… Yes, you do. I’m working on re-doing my Shine: The Circles Quilt pattern in red, white and blue, and this is the third block, titled Ljublana. I…
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Happy Fifth of July Block!
I couldn’t just stop at one, could I? After all the original Shine quilt has sixteen. Let’s just say I have been busy, although given the CovidSludgeyFeeling that all of us have, it’s sometimes…
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Happy Fourth of July Block!
I decided to give my Shine: The Circles Quilt blocks another run, prompted by a backdoor agreement that won’t be mentioned at this point, but when/if it happens, I will be more than happy…
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Mini Double-Pocket Bag • aka Mini Sew-Together Bag
Sound the trumpets! Today is finally the day that I’m releasing my pattern for the Mini Double-Pocket Bag. I know the title at the top of the post is long, but hang on to…
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MetaStructure/Metaesquema
Recently our Inland Empire Modern Quilt guild had a challenge that required that we use at least 4″ square piece of classic blue fabric, that any one side be no longer than 24″ and…
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Repeat/Augment
For some reason this morning, the fog cleared, the brain snapped to, I thought: “You have got to finish something today!” And so I did. A low-energy-COVIDistraction-day back in May got me started on…
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Buzzing
Let me start with the easy stuff, the stuff that’s in my hands all the time: cloth, needle, thread, shapes, stitching. While I’ve called this the #dungeonofcute on Instagram, I am happy that I…
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9-Patches and Churn Dashes • First Monday
So what if you were trying to think of the basic blocks for beginning quilters? What would you choose? So far in our First Monday Sew-Day series, we’ve done four-patches and square-in-square and half-square…
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Some Thoughts on Our Nation’s Milestone
For several months, I’ve awoken every morning, and looked at this map. I remember when not every state had COVID-19, I remember when New York started spiking, I remember when we started our stay-at-home…
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Sawtoothmania!
Sometimes I get an idea, and it becomes like a dividing cell: one idea becomes into two, then four, and in this case, 23. Sawtoothmania, the idea I am referring to, began about six…
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Returned Samples
I didn’t want to open the envelope when these teaching samples came back, even though I’d been expecting them. The Guild Program Chair wrote me a lovely note telling me they’d never had to…
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First Monday Sew-Day • May 2020
All these Log Cabin Quilts were hanging in a special vintage exhibit in a quilt show some years back, and I think I photographed them all. And while there are a lot of images…
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Leisa and the Sawtooth Star Quilt
Back in the day, Leisa and I were always hanging out at quilt shows. But now, she spends a lot of her getting chemo treatments, dealing with ALLeukemia, and hanging out at UCIrvine, where…
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Bee Happy in April 2020
While I titled this Bee Happy in April 2020, part of that is a statement: I’m working on my Bee Happy Quilt, started at least a year ago. But part of that is also…
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