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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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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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Annularity
AnnularityQuilt #203Began October 2017 • Completed May 2018 I use Magnifico thread as it has a nice sheen without being shiny, and it lays down a lovely line of stitching. In the bobbin is…
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Quilting Annularity–an update
My version of Annularity sat rolled up on my guest bed for ages, until I realized it wasn’t going to get quilted that way. There are no Quilting Fairies, not that I know of.…
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Child’s Play • Frivols 5
I am continuing with my determined goal to make all my Frivols tins this year. Because this one was quite small, finishing up at 29″ by 32″ (different than what was measured on the…
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Pioneer Cosplay
Recently a few of us here were involved in the Heritage Day Celebration, honoring the early pioneers in this valley. It happened last Saturday, on a mildly hot day. Good day to be wearing…
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Quilting as Part of Our Life Story
Happy Almost May with Frivol #5! I’m beginning this post by talking about my ongoing goal to make up all the Mode Frivols tins. As I mentioned before, it’s been a good experience to try…
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Life’s Dilemma–Frivol 4 is Finished
Thank you to all who entered the giveaway for Simone’s stack of fabrics. The info about that is at the end of this post. I finished up the quilt from Frivol Tin #4, and…
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On Your Mark Create! Blog Hop and Giveaway
I was recently sent a stack of fabrics as I was asked to be a part of the On Your Mark Create! blog hop; I jumped at the chance to work more with my friend…
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Go with the Flow
I’ve been thinking about what it takes to keep me interested in what I’m doing, and better yet, to find that creative task, that, when I check the time, I realize I’ve been absorbed…
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Mad for Solids Wrap-up 2018 and Giveaway
I’m sure you have seen a version of this photo before, as I participated in the Mad for Solids 2018 for Painer’s Palette Solids. Paintbrush Studios, the people who manufacture this line of solids…
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Spring Mini Quilt-on-a-Frame
ACK!! It was 93 degrees today!! My snow-covered Orangeman (or Snowman, made of oranges) has his arms thrown up in amazement/horror. While Rachel and Carol show snow days on their IG feeds, we are…
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