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Pacific International Quilt Festival • 2019
But first! I’ll be speaking and giving a workshop locally, at the Citrus Belt Quilters Guild. The lecture, titled Abecedary of Quilts, will be on Friday morning, October 25th. The Workshop, which is a…
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My Small World 2019, sections 1 and 2 finished
In my Instagram search box, sometimes the bots throw interesting things up there for me to see — like this cartoon of the sad, then very happy dog, courtesy of a little tender care…
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A Piece of Her Mind: DAR Exhibit 2019
When my husband and I traveled to Washington, D.C. recently, we took in an exhibit at the DAR Museum titled, A Piece of Her Mind. It had a focus on how technology — in…
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Halloween Banner
My niece-by-marriage, Stephanie, has decked out her house with spiders everywhere, along with Halloween decor. She is a young mother with small children. I, however, drape one thing around the house and call it…
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Revisiting the Red and White Pinwheel
A quilt in red and white and yellow and blue and all colors! Interestingly, I get a lot of mail about this quilt. It must be on a boatload of Pinterest boards, but the…
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Do You Tweet?
Perhaps the UCR Science News was looking for something other than Nobel-prize generating stories or research about saving the world from cancer, but I’m happy that the editor liked my quilts, sent to him…
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Maintain vs. Innovate
I’ve been reading a series of articles by Andrew Russell and Lee Vinsel, two academics who have noted that we tend to focus on innovation and ignore maintaining. Maintain? Innovate? When I insert this…
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Antelope Valley Quilt Association Visit • September 2019
I drove up to Antelope Valley, nearly two hours away from my home, and joined the ladies at a local church for their monthly meeting (shown here during their break). It is in capable…
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Crossroads & Simply Moderne Magazine
Crossroads began in a mix of bright violet, purple, sailor blue, deep aqua, with some bright green, yellow and a touch of black. In other words, this quilt began like so many of mine…
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This and That • September 2019
Free Motion Quilting can be one of the main challenges we quilters face after we’ve gotten down the basics of piecing and other construction methods. Now we want to stitch and shape and sculpt…
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My Small World, redux
It’s not often I get to have a re-do on Quilts-I-Once-Started-But-Abandoned, but there’s a fresh breeze in the air this fall, with another go-round of Jen Kingwell’s My Small World quilt. Paula James (@the_secret_sewer)…
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City Streets Pattern Release
City Streets now has another rendition. I made it up in a 15″ block pattern, and broke into my meager Tula stash to create a colorful quilt. This pattern is made for beginners, with…
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Betsy’s Creation • Quilt Finish
I found this 1920s vintage park with a grandstand in a small town just to the north of me and took my husband and my most recent finished quilt there, so we could do…
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Inland Empire Quilters Quild
The classroom behind me was abuzz as I set up my Shine quilt on its frame. I turned around to see that the room had filled up with women from the Inland Empire Quilters…
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Pass Patchers Quilt Guild
I’m leading off this post about my visit to the Pass Patchers Quilt Guild, with a look at the friendly faces and bright smiles of the talented quilters who were at the workshop today.…
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Happy August 2019 • This and That
When I looked outside in my garden today, the zucchini plant had wilted from the heat, mirroring how I felt inside. However, unlike my spectacularly unproductive zucchini plant [we’ve only had ONE], I’ve been…
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City Streets • Quilt Finish
Recently my husband and I took my latest quilt, City Streets, out to a small branch library in our town for some photos. It was a deserted Sunday afternoon, perfect for us to find…
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Mending
I’ve had mending on my mind and wanted to write about all forms of mending, but hadn’t been able to find a way in until I saw this: I’m a long-time mender. I recently…
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Wonky Hearts Aflutter
How do I make nearly 60 wonky, improv-y hearts and not go crazy? Now there’s a challenge. I started here, with a rough pattern of how big I wanted my “improv” wonky heart to…
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Far Away Doors • Quilt Finish
Doors opening, closing on usby Marge Piercy Maybe there is more of the magicalin the idea of a door than in the dooritself. It’s always a matter of goingthrough into something else. But while…
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Can We Talk About Rulers?
When I teach,often there seems a disconnect between what rulers students have and what rulers they need. So I thought I’d write a post talking about the basics that I wish everyone could have.…
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Irritated by the Internet
Lately I’ve been irritated by the Internets. And by blogs, although I’m someone who still reads them, someone who still writes them, and still thinks the longer form is useful. All is not well…
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Field Flowers • Quilt Finish
One of the challenges of finishing a quilt is figuring out where to photograph the thing. So one night last week my husband and I went over to University of California-Riverside (UCR) to find…
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Happy July 2019 • This and That!
In this episode of This-and-That posts, I wanted to lead off with a little freebie for your Fourth of July: the instructions for a Teeny Tiny Flag quilt. You can whip this up quickly,…
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Ladybird • Quilt Finish
Ladybird is finished. Ladybird, the name a shortened version of ladybird beetle (or ladybugs as we call them in the States), has a rich folkloric history, with allusions to religion, good fortune, death, and…
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Delectable Baskets: Quilt Finish
Delectable Baskets • Quilt #220Approximately 70″ wide by 90″ high Delectable Baskets gets its name because each basket is filled with food — well — food fabrics. I’d been collecting for over twenty years,…
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Betsy’s Creation: Flag Quilt Top
Betsy’s Creation • Flag Quilt Top Finished! Last week in another post, I threw together a fun little worksheet about how to make a flag quilt, then got busy and not only made this…
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