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Making, Not Knowing
I was intrigued by the phrase Making, Not Knowing, when I read about the artist Ann Hamilton recently on the website BrainPickings, and learned of her essay with that title, adapted from her 2005…
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Field Flowers • Top Finished
Field Flowers (quilt top only)69″ wide by 74 1/2″ tall I took it out in the backyard for some photos, easily done with my new quilt stand. It’s very satisfying to look at this,…
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Temperature Quilt, Etc.
I’m making progress on my temperature quilt. I don’t attach the months together until they are complete, so what’s shown is only January and February. In my garden. Of course. The Los Angeles Times…
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Home-Keeping Hearts
Home-keeping Hearts, top only44 1/2″ wide x 51″ tall I finished my most recent Merrion Square variation, a grouping of houses made by friends and Gridster beemates, plus a few more from my own…
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Merrion Square • A New OPQuilt Pattern
First you saw this, way back in December of 2018. I had this idea in my head and with a stack of Alison Glass fat quarters from Andover, I decided to try it out.…
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This and That for February 2019
I’ve been watching the second season of Anne with an E, a show on Netflix that re-thinks the well-loved story about a certain red-haired orphan. I binged-watched several episodes while hand-sewing and emobroidering the…
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Temperature Quilt Key
I’ve been thinking hard about how I want to record the colors I used in my Temperature quilt. I’ve seen lots of different kinds (on Instagram use the hashtag #tempquilt, or some variation of…
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Art Muses/Art Musings
Everyonce in a while it’s good to leave your tribe and take a look at what other artists are doing. It also helps to be in recovery from shoulder surgery so when that rabbit…
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Queen Bee for Gridsters 2019
(see below for the winners of the Temperature Giveaway) February is my month to be Queen Bee, a phrase I picked up from hanging-out-across-the-ocean with Susan of Patchwork and Play (she lives in Melbourne).…
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Temperature Quilt & Giveaway
I’ve jumped on that colorful bandwagon and am making a Temperature Quilt, or as my scientist husband likes to refer to it: a Heat Map. And, I’m hosting a …so keep reading for how…
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Gridsters Blocks (January 2019) and Affinity software review
The Gridsters are starting on their third year, and it’s been a delight to discover the variety of styles and choices each member puts forward for us to make for them. Carol was our…
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Up in Smoke
The Los Angeles Central Library was set ablaze by an arsonist on April 29, 1986, an event captured in an excellent recent book by Susan Orleans. The photo above shows the library on fire, and…
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A Bit Frosty this January
Remember this? And this? This is Shine: The Circles Quilt, and I started it as a English Paper Piecing project, putting the free patterns up on this blog, beginning in 2014. I also have…
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Blwyddyn Newydd Dda
That saying in the title is Welsh for Happy New Year, and one custom is that the children in old Welsh villages would “rush around the village visiting as many houses as possible to…
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Prepping the Quilts 2018
Thank you all for the lovely words of encouragement you wrote in response to my last post. I’m making my way through them, and will answer them. However, everything I have done lately…is done…
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A Few Thoughts on A Year of Making Frivols
My friend Simone asked me what I was going to do now that the Frivols were all finished. “What do you have planned for 2019?” she asked, oh so sweetly. Let me review: 2011-2014…
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Blue Stars (Frivols #12): All Finished, Completed & Done, and an Encore!
This is the final Frivols, a table runner for my holiday table, shown here with my wooden toys from Sweden, Copenhagen and Germany. I’m calling it Blue Stars. I almost called it Christmas Stars,…
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Quilt Stand Info
Simone recently encouraged me into the quilt-stand/frame-buying business, and since she’d done the bulk of the research, I joined her online (me, at my computer and she, at her computer) to figure out the…
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Frivols 12
This is my last introduction to the series of small-tins-with-fabrics, called Frivols. Although the other day, one of my non-sewing friends asked me how my Frizzles were doing. I think she was about right.…
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Millefiore Quilt Update
It all began here, with my Millefiore mood board, drawing on colors from the National Park in Croatia, Plitvice Lakes. I had decided to jump in and go with all of Quilting America that…
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Visit to Andover Fabrics and New York City
I had a chance to travel to New York City this past month, where I joined my daughter Barbara for a long-awaited long weekend. We stayed midtown Manhattan, so I walked past M…
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Frivols Finish #11, the Penultimate!
And here we are–almost completed with the Year of Making Frivols, with quilt #11, titled, Stars of Night, Lend their Light (quilt #213). It’s the largest Frivols yet, finishing at about 55″ square. And…
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Fun with Other Quilters at Valley Modern Quilt Guild
Last week I had the chance to head over to Los Angeles, and speak at the Valley Modern Quilt Guild, held at HighTech LA, a very cool building (with great gates). They had these…
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Frivols 11
It’s Frivols time, since it is the first of the month, so here we go with Frivols Tin #11: a line from Chloe’s Closet, filled with tape measures and cute floral fabrics. You can…
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Guild Visit, and a little stitching for NASA’s JPL Mars
Just to show you that every stitch counts, NASA has been testing a parachute to help with their Mars missions. I love that the announcer mentions “miles and miles of thread” and “over three…
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Prepping my Crazy Cushion Class
When I was visiting the South Bay Quilters, they had one class in their line-up which intrigued me: Becky McDaniels’ Crazy Cushions class. Covet. I found a guild closer to me offering it, and…
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