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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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Not All That Wanders Is Lost • Traveling Threads Bee Quilt is Finished
Not All That Wanders Is Lost 47″ high by 56″ wide Quilt No. 186 In March 2015, Megan asked me to be a part of a Traveling Threads Bee. My initial post about the…
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Rose Window • Four-in-Art Quilt
It’s Four-in-Art Challenge Reveal day today, the penultimate challenge in 2017. We began this art mini-quilt group in November of 2012, and we are in our fifth year. Bette, Rachel and I have been…
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Hot Mitts • July 2017
It was time. When I last made hot mitts, it was 2013 and now, many hot pans later, I was in desperate need of new hot mitts. Scary picture of old mitts, below. I…
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July’s Gridster Bee Block
Here’s the block I made for the July Gridster Bee, for Carol. It was a fun make, made easy by this tutorial from Sara Noda. (She also has a blog post on her completed…
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creative block
(Yes. Lower case title, just to reclaim some of my quirkiness.) I recently posted about taking a break from the creative world, from the quilty world, from whatever and while I was gone, I…
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Time for Refueling
I’m Elizabeth, the girl behind the pump that fuels this blog. I’m a quilter, mother, grandmother, wife, reader, writer, cook, housecleaner, recent PT-goer, free-motion-quilter. My driver’s license lies about my weight, my age, and…
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Happy Fourth of July • 2017!!
Happy Fourth of July! A long time ago I lived in Washington, DC for a year, and our quilt guild (Mt. Vernon, a chapter of Quilts Unlimited of Virginia) was pretty active. We met…
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Riley’s Quilt
Red, White, and Blue giveaway info is at the end of this post. Many thanks to all who entered! If my grandchildren come to visit me long enough, we can crank out a quilt.…
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