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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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Crazy Cushion Class
If you could scroll down for just a second and locate on the right blog sidebar where there is a link to a video titled Create. This was taken from a talk from one…
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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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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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