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It’s Fall–Time for a Christmas Frivols (#10 is finished!)
What does fall mean? It’s fall, when — if you live in the Northern States — leaves turn colors and fall off the trees. Here in Southern California we know it’s fall because all…
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Starry Sky Mug Rug
This summer, my niece Abby, let me have one of her hand-thrown mugs, of which I was thrilled to get (I love hot chocolate). I meant to send her a little quilted mug rug…
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To Dublin, Berlin, and Back (part Berlin)
As I mentioned in the last post, this is a visual sampling of some of the patterned surfaces and interesting places that caught my eye while in Berlin, not an exhaustive travel write-up. The…
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To Dublin, Berlin, and Back (part Dublin)
I’m dividing this into two posts: first up is Dublin. As a quilter, I didn’t know what to expect in the surface decoration, the patterns of everyday life in Dublin. Certainly we all are…
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Frivols 10
It’s the first week of October and has been my tradition this year, I announce the next Frivols I’ll be making for that month. (Only three more months to go.) Titled The Cookie…
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Paint by Numbers, a creative approach to pictorial quilts
I was recently asked to review Kerry Foster’s new book, Paint-by-Number Quilts, recently published by C & T, and I eagerly said yes. I’ve been a quilty-pal of Kerry’s for some time, and enjoy…
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All done with Frivols 9
Yippee! Number nine is finished, and in the same month I started it. We had to take my car in to get fixed (see recent post) and I thought taking photos at the auto…
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Northern Lights Medallion
Northern Lights MedallionQuilt No. 210 • 52″ square I love these posts where I get to place a quilt front and center, quilting finished, bound and photographed, and even a label made AND sewn…
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Folding Fat Eighths
As I mentioned in my last post, the printing was messed up for the patterns for the South Bay Quilters Guild, so I wanted to send a little something to say how sorry I…
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Frivols 8 ** FINISHED!** & Intro to Frivols 9
I finished Frivols 8, and haven’t yet named it, although Moda calls it “Brio” or something like that. But all those Bear Paw blocks are so fun and alive, I need another name. How…
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Uncle (Frivols #8)
The following pictures tell you why I’m saying Uncle on this project, as there is No Way I’m going to be able to quilt it and bind it and label it, all before the…
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South Bay Quilters Guild visit
Last week, I had a great time, visiting and teaching with the South Bay Quilters Guild, with a meeting on Tuesday evening (August 21) and a workshop on Wednesday. My hostess for the event…
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For Those Days When I Am Stuck
I’m off to number 13-land.
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Now this is fun! Annularity hits print
I’ve been waiting for this, and even though I still don’t have my paper, in-the-hand catalogue…hooray! my quilt, Annularity, has hit print. This is a screenshot of the digital catalogue. The direct link to…
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Northern Star Medallion Top Finished
It was a lot of mind over matter, but I finished the borders, worked out the measurements and sewed everything together. There seemingly was a big canyon between where I was last post…
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Northern Star update
The last time I worked on this, Neanderthals worked on chipping rocks for tools. The last time I worked on this, Bing Crosby was crooning White Christmas. The last time I worked on this,…
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Frivols 8 • August 2018
September’s box is Frivols #8 and is a tin from American Jane, with a whole host of fancy and fun prints. The Moda blog notes that: “There is a correction to the pattern…
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Bread with Every Meal (Frivols #7)
Bread with every meal • Quilt #207 • 24″ square Ta-DONE!!! With great relief and happiness, I present to you: Bread with every meal. The title comes from the back of this quilt, a…
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Hexagon Millefiore Update, July 2018
And with this Rosette (#10b), I finished up The New Hexagon Millefiore Quilt-A-Long. Contractually. At least according to the rules of the The New Hexagon Millefiore Game. But I really hate the crenellated edges.…
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Getting the Work Done: Artist vs. Addict
A recent reviewer of Steven Pressman’s book Turning Pro, pointed out that: “What is distraction, if not self-sabotage, sabotage of one’s future self?” Pressman, who wrote the War of Art, a must-read for…
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Happy Fourth of July 2018
To honor the 4th of July, I stitched up another tiny quilt. I love being patriotic, as the meaning has a sense of loving America and its peoples, the history and the early settlers,…
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Frivols 7
I pulled Frivols Tin #7 out of the closet, and about fell over. There are a billion little triangles in this quilt, well, okay, maybe only a couple of a hundred, but they are…
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Update on New Hexagon Millefiore
I dragged pulled out that hexagon millefiore mess quilt and decided I had let it linger too long. Waaaaay too long, and that it had lurked, like some amorphous creeping thing in the corner of…
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Jolly Old St. Nicholas • recap
I recently received an email from a reader, asking me about the details of my Jolly Old St. Nicholas quilt. Her simple request pointed up a problem all of us blog writers face: how…
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Practice Makes Perfect • Frivols #6
Practice Makes PerfectQuilt #204 • June 201826″ by 31.5″ The requisite shot of the X-ed out Frivols tins show that I’m now halfway done with my goal. I try not to set goals, as…
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Betty Crocker Takes up Quilting
Betty Crocker Takes Up Quilting, quilt #199 36″ square It all begins with digging deep in the stash closet for fun, familiar fabrics… ..with some quilting to show off the two different sections… …to…
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Frivols Tin 6 (and a few words about Value)
Cuteness, so cute, darling, adorbs, charming, majorly adorable. Yep, that’s why I bought these things. So by now you have figured out it’s time to sew up another Frivols, and now we are on…
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