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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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Chuck Nohara Quilt Top Finished!
We interrupt this tour of France and the European Patchwork Meeting to bring you breaking news: I finished the Chuck Nohara Quilt Top! My husband held it up for me, but it’s big —…
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Gabrielle Paquin: Design and Graphics
All posts in order are on the European Patchwork (Carrefour) page. Moseying along the main street, we headed to Site #7, the Eligse St-Louis, where I wanted to see the French quilter Gabrielle Paquin.…
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A Study in Opposities: Lea Stansal and Mary Koval
All posts in order are on the European Patchwork (Carrefour) page. I am posting my experiences at the recent European Patchwork Meeting, held in a series of four small towns in the Alsace region…
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Quilt Show Contest • or • Concours International du Carrefour Européen du Patchwork 2017
All posts in order are on the European Patchwork (Carrefour) page. How’s that for a title? This post is all about the official competition of the Patchwork Meeting, and I have a sampling of…
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Shopping at the European Quilt Meeting
All posts in order are on the European Patchwork (Carrefour) page. The brains of the meeting. I’d done some prepwork (looking at the website) so I knew what I wanted to see. The very…
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European Patchwork Meeting • September 2017
All posts in order are on the European Patchwork (Carrefour) page (both years listed). When my husband had the chance to work again in Geneva, France and we found out the European Patchwork Meeting…
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The Visual Story of a Sewing Kit
Okay–here’s what helps keep me busy while I’m watching hours of footage about the Hurricane Harvey disaster: hand-sewing. So I came up with my own little sewing kit. Start Here, with this rough sketch…
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Mr. Golden Sun
Mr. Golden Sun Quilt No. 187 13″ by 16″ tall We had a great time on Monday, watching our partial eclipse. I’d made eclipse cookies, people brought lemonade, and we all cheered when the…
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Solar Eclipse Block • 2017
Since I am completely ga-ga over the 2017 Solar Eclipse, happening August 21st (and I already have the next on penciled in on my calendar–April 2024, if you must know) when searching for decorations…
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August Gridster Block • 2017
This month we are doing blocks for Debbie, who requested that we make blocks from the Moda Be My Neighbor quilt, from 2016. I found all the free, downloadable blocks on Sew Let’s Quilt…
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