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Summer Flowers (aka Posh Penelope)
This is Posh Penelope’s birthday: I’m thinking somewhere around the 19th of January in the Time of the Masks, aka, 2022. We slid Road to California under the 2020 wire, then it was cancelled/online/whatever…
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Did Vasarely get there first?
Maybe. Maybe Victor Vasarely got there first in the art world, but I’m guessing the origin of circles on squares, or even squircles on squares, may have come from all the mending the first…
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Squircles
You knew this was coming, right? After you saw that last post about squircles, I’ll bet you knew I’d go hunting and fall down a rabbit hole. You are very perceptive. This is a…
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Quilt Show 2025 Springville Art Museum
I like making these little “postcards” with names from the map. The Mesa is that long dark stripe of rock on the lower right side of the photo, moving away from the road. Yes,…
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The Dress Does not Make the Quilter
Well, actually Rabelais said “The dress does not make the monk,” but since I’m not a monk like Rabelais — although I do sit monk-like day after day at the sewing machine — I…
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The Zeigarnik Effect: the Power of the Unfinished
Adrian Zumbrunnen, a human interface designer, wrote recently about how “Blooma Zeigarnik [on the right] and her professor of Gestalt psychology were having coffee at a bustling restaurant…While waiting for the check, the two…
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This and That: No June Gloom, please.
First off: Happy Father’s Day to the men in your life, and especially the men in mine: my husband, Supreme Quilt Holder, three sons, and one son-in-law, then a gang of grandsons. Here’s a…
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Kraków Circles
I have this line of patterns I call PatternLite. Usually they start out as just a block I’m kind of doodling around with and want to share. Then I decide I want to make…
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When You Can’t Create You Can Work
Henry Miller, a writer in the early part of the 20th century, devised a list of rules for himself when writing his first book (Black Spring). I found this whole idea while zipping through…
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Quilting and the Churches of Kraków
Traveling is a blitz on the senses, a clearing of the mind, and making connections that are new or novel. I’m always making quilting connections when I travel, I suppose you are too: new…
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Catching Up, Keeping Myself Honest
You could skip this post like you might want have to skipped Weight Watchers checkins back in the day…it’s a post that charts progress, keeps me honest and helps me admit my defeats as…
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Flying Through Rainbows
In a series of interviews with new poets, they each expressed their confusion, discussed their work ethic, and acknowledged the daily drudgery — and joy — of being able to create and work. (See…
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If I Do This, Can I Do That? April 2025
If I go to see all my kids, will I be able to recover from the trip? If I buy this, can I buy that? If I choose to sew this project, will I…
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A Life Full of Yes
Candy Clark, who has just published a book of Polaroid photographs of her younger life with the Hollywood stars of her era noted in a recent article that looking backward to this time wasn’t…
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Sewing in Translation
You know when I stood in the shopping area of Carrefour Quilt Show last September (2024), I wanted to buy up all the fabrics and patterns and everything, but alas my suitcase was small,…
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March 2025 This and That
A post where I go wild with cultural references, quilts and art, but don’t worry–everything fits right into a This-and-That. My friend Jamie sent me this photo of one of my quilt designs in…
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Personal History of Quilting
“Hope is a discipline and…we have to practice it every single day. Because in the world which we live in, it’s easy to feel a sense of hopelessness, that everything is all bad all…
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Two Quilt Finishes • March 2025
What is this mess? My exploded Orphan Quilt Box. I’ve been putting things in here for nearly two decades (the little airplane blocks are for my grandson’s baby quilt, and he just went off…
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Happy 50 Years!
First, a continuation of a story. Remember this quilt? And how when I went to find the binding, I couldn’t…and then a friend wrote to say, “Oh, you sent me that fabric!” Then that…
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Duck Creek • Quilt Finish
Duck Creek • quilt #302 I know you are really here to see the info on this beautiful mural. It’s by Rosy Cortez, and was done under her guidance by a team of helpers.…
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Incomplete
I keep finding WIPs. Here’s one from eleven (!) years ago: More about the process on this post, but this was discovered when I was looking for a February-ish theme for my Instagram Monthly…
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Why do I do this? • February 2025 This and That
BlueSky comment: “What a great hobby (and don’t be upset if it’s more than a hobby). These quilts are beautiful. Quilting is fascinating to me.” Hobby. Hmmm. (This person obviously doesn’t know quilters.) I…
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Road to California 2025
This is in two parts: the top is the bits and pieces.The bottom are the quilts. Yes, they are all in one post, so get your popcorn and let’s get scrolling. Road to California,…
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Don’t Ask Me — they all just crept in!
It’s traditional for everyone on the planet, not just quilters, to make a list of projects they want to complete in the upcoming year. No, it’s not. The rest of the world makes resolutions.…
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Last I checked, I’m still here
I was supposed to be on a road trip to see art and family. We were going to duck in to a wintery state on a week that was forecast to be freezing cold…
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Happy Old Year Ending 2024
Can I squeeze just one more quilt in here? I’ve made several quilts with prominent flowers in my tenure as a Quilter Who Just Keeps Making. Scroll quickly and you’ll have a flower show…
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Merry Christmas 2024
Madonna and Child Marianne Stokes (1909) I hope you have a very merry day– (a favorite carol for today)
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