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Winter Pines • Finished!
Winter Pines Quilt No. 193 73″ high by 64″ wide You saw the sewing of Winter Pines and I’m back to tell you it’s finished. The backing is an oldie from the stash;…
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Frivols 2
We’re back for another episode of Make Those Frivols! 2018 Today I’m working on Frivols Tin #2, with a line of fabrics from Moda’s Minick and Simpson. Of course the cute little giveaway in…
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Basket Block Tutorial • February 2018 • (Gridster Bee Month for Me!)
I belong to an online bee called the Gridsters, and February is my month to choose a block that my beemates make for me. You can find all our work on Instagram, using the…
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Road to California 2018
Ready, set, go into a busy week: Tuesday: Cynthia England’s class with Lisa, my pal, who has moved away to Utah. That’s Cynthia’s class sample, above. I loved taking a class with Cynthia as I…
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Frivols 1 Is Finished!
Caitlin’s Baby Quilt • Quilt #19240″ (approx) square I finished the first Frivol and I finished it early — before the end of January, so I was pretty happy with THAT deadline. As I…
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Gridster Bee Begins 2018
Carol kicked off the Gridsters this year, doing a little throwback to fall, for she said she wanted to make herself a quilt for autumn. She asked us to use this tutorial from The…
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Frivols! (Time to Do Another Undone Project)
I think I mentioned somewhere along the way, that I had collected a full set of Frivols tins, shown above. Two other quilters, Kelley and Karen, mentioned that they had a full set, too.…
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Winter Pines
It all began here, with a visit to Gardner’s Quilt shop in Utah, where I saw this quilt. I realized I had many fabrics that would work, so purchased only the pine boughs and…
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Happy Old Year Ending • 2017
This year’s main quilting events: Shoulder surgery in January, which pretty much sidelined me for a long time. That’s at the top of the list, because whatever I did after that was like icing on…
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Criss-Cross Quilt Top
Criss-Cross Christmas Quilt, top finished December 2017 59 ” by 68″ It all started when my friend Leisa gave me a mini-charm pack of Merrily fabrics by Gingiber. Then the Fat Quarter Shop had…
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Merry Christmas 2017
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Bee Blocks for Gridsters • December 2017
Four of us got together to do the last block of 2017 for Afton, of Quilting Mod. She’d asked that we do a cake from Patty Sloniger’s pattern (for Michael Miller Fabrics), and Afton…
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Bojagi and the Chojun Textile & Quilt Art Museum • Seoul, South Korea
It was the last day of our trip to Tokyo and Seoul. I was laying in bed, so so tired from our trip, and already the events and obligations of home were pressing in.…
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Tiny Tree and Teeny Trees
I’m decorating for Christmas and wanted to change out my Tiny Quilt from Autumn to Christmas, but then got wondering how a teeny-weeny quilt would look, so got busy. These little quilts fit onto…
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Fabric Shopping in Tokyo and Seoul
This is the second post on shopping for fabric in Toyko and South Korea. My last post talked about the famous Tomato Fabrics and Nippori Fabric Town. It looks like I’m standing in a…
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Zipperstop Zippers Giveaway!
That’s all–a giveaway of zippers from Zipperstop, USA recipients only, no international. I’ll choose two winners, one from this blog and one from Instagram, so leave a comment in both places to get two chances. [Backstory:…
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Shopping for Fabric in Tokyo, Part I
First, just to get you in the mood for how big, how huge, how overwhelming Tokyo can be, let’s Sing A Song (click on link below): It’s from a video taken at…
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A Tiny Quilt for Autumn
So, one day I just had to do some creating. Not following a big-deal pattern with billions of pieces, but a little project that just allowed me to follow a simple set of instructions…
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Home, Sweet, Home Mini-Quilt Class
Recently I taught a class for my Home, Sweet, Home mini quilt. I snapped these photos as they were working; they’d all mostly prepped up their pieces before coming, and it made the class…
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Eclipse, deconstructed
This is the post where I reveal all my beauty secrets. Kidding. This is the post where I tell you how I made my Four-in-Art quilt, showing a technique I’d read about this…
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Eclipse: Final *Four-in-Art* Art Quilt
Eclipse • Quilt #189 Four-in-Art, Series Four: Light 12″ square Click to enlarge any photo. This is the final post of our Four-in-Art Art Quilt group. Our group had its genesis when I saw the…
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Gridster Bee Blocks & Catch-Ups
Simone, the Queen Bee for September, visited Grand Teton National Park over the summer and wanted a block to commemorate her visit. I can hardly wait to see this one. Leisa’s mother used to…
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Flowers!
Since this link is out in the universe for a Poppy Block, and a lot has happened in those intervening years, let’s cut right to the chase. The pattern has been updated, and the…
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European Patchwork Meeting • Final Post
All posts in order are on the European Patchwork (Carrefour) page. This has a billion pictures, so get ready to scroll. I need to wrap this up and bring my head back to what…
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SAQA in France: Studio Art Quilt Associates
All posts in order are on the European Patchwork (Carrefour) page. This is one in a series of posts I’ve written about the Carrefours European Patchwork Show held in September of 2017, in the…
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Luke Haynes, Ian Berry & Nancy Crow
All posts in order are on the European Patchwork (Carrefour) page. I hope the combination of the above three piques your interest, for it was an interesting juxtaposition of quilters. We also had SAQA…
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