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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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Red, White, and Blue Star
Welcome to Day 4 of the Patriotic Palette Blog Hop, hosted by Paintbrush Studios and Painter’s Palette Solids! Red, White, and Blue Star • Quilt #183 25″ square, made from Painter’s Palette Solids NOTE:…
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A Tiny Quilt for Summer
I made this for an exchange at my Guild Night, but then my daughter and her family came into town and I didn’t go, so now I have my own little quilt. It has…
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Inching through June • 2017
So, I really have to get serious about my Chuck Nohara quilt borders, because it’s acting like New Jersey’s Bridgegate: closing down my creative roads. So here it is where I left it. I…
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Sweet Land of Liberty
Sweet Land of Liberty Quilt #182 28″ square I started this in January, prepping up the stars and beginning the hand-blanket-stitching a couple of days after my rotator cuff surgery. This was a bright…
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Rainbow Gardens, redux
Rainbow Gardens (the original) was made for a swap back in 2015, and I always wished I’d kept it for myself. So this week I did the next, best thing: I made a new…
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Let’s Get Crackin’: Finish This! • June 2017
Okay, so I used up my old list with crossing stuff off and writing stuff on. It’s a bit dispiriting to see some quilts that never seem to launch, but I’ll give it a…
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One Life • Many Lives
This has to do with quilting, but it doesn’t start out that way. It starts out this way, with a two-year old girl posed on her family’s front lawn. Then all of a sudden, I…
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Single Binding on a Mini Quilt
We all put double layers of fabric bindings on our larger quilts, but have you thought about using a single binding on a smaller quilt? It’s quicker, flatter, and really–are you going to wear out those…
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Trunk Show • Raincross Quilt Guild
Flier for my Trunk Show: The meeting starts at 6 p.m. at the Janet Goeske Senior Center, in Riverside, California.
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Early-May Accomplishments
I finished my Gridsters Bee block for Rachel. She asked for buzzy bees, as she is a beekeeper in the Midwest. Her tutorial is *here,* as well as links to her pattern, but I…
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Belle Etoile du Jour
Belle Etoile du Jour Quilt #181 of 200 quilts, 88″ square Began December 2016 • Finished May 2017 A couple of weeks ago, I had my son and grandson hold up the unquilted top of…
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Four-in-Art Quarterly Challenge: Stained Glass Shadows
Shadow owes its life to light. ~an old saying I am to provide the theme for our next quarterly challenge, and I choose Stained Glass Shadows. I love the saturated lights left on floors, walls,…
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Halfway There
Halfway There Quilt # 180 13-1/2″ wide by 20″ tall That night, I was alone in bed in the guest room, five pillows behind me and one to each side, propping me up in…
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Piggies!
Piggies! Quilt #179 60″ wide by 76″ high Finished April 2017 All our signature blocks, close-up. And who are these people? My beemates from the Gridsters Bee. You can find our work on Instagram: they…
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Quilting System
Some time ago, Oliver Burkeman, writing in the Guardian newspaper, discussed the idea of implementing “systems” rather than using goals when we are striving toward a new frontier, whether it be in quilting, or better…
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Piggies! (and other stuff)
Thanks to all who entered the Paintbrush Studios giveaway for the Painter’s Palette Solids. I used the Husband Random Number Generator, and he picked Lisa J. for the scraps and Susan H. for the…
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Guccilious Scraps Head into the World
As promised, the scraps from my Guccilious quilt need to go out into the world, for others to enjoy this fabric and this particular range of colors. And although this bundle accumulated quite a…
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Guccilicious Moves On to a New Bracket
So, I’ve been playing around some more with my Guccilicious bundle of Painter’s Palette Solids, and created this New York Beauty block ( *here*). It seems my bundle has made it into the Top Eight…
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March Madness: Guccilicious and Sky Rocket Quilt
Today is the day to vote for my bundle of fabrics titled Guccilicious, *here* and on Instagram. On Friday, I introduced you to my bundle of colors, and the name, and today I’d like…
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