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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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March Madness with Painter’s Palette Solids
Today is the day we announce the Mad for Solids 2017, our quilty version of March Madness (we can’t let the basketball players have all the fun, can we?) There are 16 quilters who…
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March Madness Coming
I have been working with Painter’s Palette Solids for nearly two years now in various capacities (quilt designer, mostly) and I love these fabrics not only for their wide range of colors, but also for…
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Liberty USA Mini Quilt, 3
Well, I finished up the top of my Liberty USA quilt. And in other breaking news, I also was cleared to take off my sling. My hands are now free-er than they were a…
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Conducting an Image Search While Avoiding Pinterest
I love Pinterest. But I also hate Pinterest when I’m trying to do an image search. I recently was searching for “wonky row quilts” and everything took me right over to a Pinterest page, which is a…
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Queen Bee for Gridsters: Piggies!
I am the Queen Bee this month for the Gridsters Bee, and thought and thought and thought of what I could do. I happened on this design while surfing the blogs, and something about…
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The Grid, the Gridsters (and a wee bit of news)
When I say the grid, you probably think of something like the image above: a rendition of the electrical grid in the United States. Or you might think of a street grid, or the computer grid,…
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Liberty USA Mini Quilt, 2
I’ve made some progress by getting the first (left) side sewn down. It’s pretty wonky, but I’m leaving it as a testament to this wonky time in my life. In my pain-killer-addled brain…
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Be My Valentine • 2017
A creation from Way Back: a florid appliqué heart Valentine designed by Elinor Peace Bailey. (Pattern for heart blocks on this post.) Valentine Hearts, with a wee pocket with a wee Valentine note tucked…
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Liberty USA Mini Quilt, 1 (along with some “slow quilting”)
I have always wanted a patriotic mini-quilt, so before surgery, I prepped up these little stars, fused them down to 2 1/2″ squares of fabric and stitched them together in a block. I figured I…
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February Bee Block for Gridsters Bee: Pineapple!
IG: #gridsterbee Pineapple Block for Sherri for February 2017 This month, Sherri, of A Quilting Life, is our Queen Bee and she’s asked us to make her pineapple blocks. First step: make a mess…
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Deconstruction of Shimmery Tunnel of Memories • Four-in-Art Feb. 2107
This is the deconstruction post for my recent Four-in-Art Challenge of Shimmer. First off: what a lame title. I had another name picked for this (“Multiverse Snapshot”) which is a much cooler name, but I’d forgotten…
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Four-in-Art February 2017: Shimmery Tunnel of Memories
Every time I head to Washington, DC and go to the National Gallery of Art, I head downstairs to go through this light insulation by Leo Villarreal, titled Multiverse. The lights are static, then…
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About the Refugees
I don’t ordinarily post on this site news of a controversial nature, so if you don’t want see this, please click on by. This video was produced by my church and is about the…
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Road to California Quilt Show, 2017
The Road to California Quilt Show was held this past weekend, and I think it was my 22nd year of going…or something like that. The highlights for the first day are found on my…
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Magic Stars Quilt, with Sarah Jane fabrics
It begins here… …with fabric by Sarah Jane. A relative of mine fell in love with her work and asked me to make her a quilt for her daughter, who has a name similar to…
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Gridsters Bee • January 2017
IG: #gridsterbee Susan of PatchworknPlay starts off our new year of our Gridsters Bee with having us make her some New York Beauty blocks. She sent us to a webpage (Ulas Quiltseite–it’s German, but…
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Getting a Perspective on a New Year • 2017
My friend Leslie sent me this knitting gnome (so I had to share it with you), and although the holidays are past and gone, I think many of us have been as busy as…
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