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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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Spelling Bee 2016 Wrap-Up
UPDATE: This blog has migrated to quiltabecedary.blogspot.com. Last year I had this idea that I wanted to try, and so I rounded up some willing participants and we made ourselves a Spelling Bee. I…
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Mid-Century Modern Bee 2016 • Wrap-up
Four years ago, Cindy and I sat at this computer and designed this logo for a bee she was starting. She brilliantly gathered up a coterie of quilters, all over the age of 50,…
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Merry Christmas to all my Favorite Quilters!
Jolly Olde St. Nicholas Merry Christmas!
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A Little Christmas Treat: Spritz
I couldn’t resist this illustration of a a Spritz Christmas Cookie, as it looked so much like one of our quilts (first seen on They Draw and Cook). And don’t we all need a…
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A Little Christmas Tune: The Wexford Carol
Alison Krauss and Yo-Yo Ma perform “The Wexford Carol” I always try to put this up each Christmas season, as The Wexford Carol is one of my favorite Christmas carols, and I love this arrangement…
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To Do List and En Provence Mystery Quilt
In one month, I finished off two things. And added one: Quiltville Bonnie Hunter’s En Provence Mystery Quilt. In my defense, I also finished making all the words for the Alphabet Quilt, and just…
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Oh! Christmas Tree Quilt
Oh! Christmas Tree Quilt Quilt #175 Began January 2016 • Finished December 2016 It’s finally finished. I started this once I saw the QuiltMania magazine it was featured in. It is a pattern from…
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Final Bee Blocks for 2016
And….that’s a wrap! The Mid-Century Modern bee began four years ago, and I recently sewed the final blocks in Anna Maria Horner fabrics (as per the Queen Bee’s request). We were supposed to do the…
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Christmas Tree Block Swap
This picture-filled post shows when a bunch of the local Good Heart Quilters (my little quilting group) got together to trade Christmas Tree blocks (pattern found on this post). Usually we don’t meet in…
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Not Waving, but Drowning
Not Waving, But DrowningQuilt #17339″ high by 43″ wide This quilt began its life in a quilt block I designed, which I call Semaphore. My friend Cindy saw that and made a version for a fabric manufacturer,…
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