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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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Christmas Tree Block Swap
My friend Leisa saw a Christmas Tree Block Swap that was going on online, and said “Why don’t we do one like this with our group?” Sure, why not? We don’t have anything else going on,…
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Making Progress on Oh Christmas Tree Quilt
Remember this? And did you know there are (at this writing) about 35 days until Christmas? So I decided I’d better get to it. Since rolling around on the floor pin basting a quilt is…
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Illusion of Colors, based on a design by Kevin Umaña
Illusion of Colors Quilt, #172 24″ square This was the second of two designs I made using Uppercase Fabrics and designs from artist Kevin Umaña, who now lives in New York City. I first wrote…
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Shine: The Circles Quilt, finished
Shine: The Circles Quilt Quilt #170 This quilt finally finished, I took it out for a photography session with the help of my husband. I started sewing the first block in June of 2014,…
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This ‘N That • November 2016
First up is finally completing my little house quilt, which I titled Celebration. I thought it was a 4th of July house quilt, but now I think it may be sort of Christmasy (or…
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Six Ways to Blue, Deconstructed
This is a further discussion of the quilt I recently made for the quarterly challenge in our Four-in-Art group. I let this theme of “I’ve Got the Blues” simmer in my mind, thinking about…
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Six Ways to Blue, a Four-in-Art quilt for November 2016
Six Ways to Blue Quilt #169, November 2016 19 1/2″ high by 21″ wide #4 in the Color Series: I’ve Got the Blues Blues can mean too many things, all at once. Peacefulness, depression, sadness, the…
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Joe Cunningham Lecture * QuiltFest Palm Springs • Sept 2016
The evening of my class with Joe Cunningham, he had a lecture in the hotel, and since there were only four of us, he told the organizers he could hold up his own quilts…
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Workshop with Joe Cunningham • Sept. 2016
Early this month, I got up at very early in the morning and drove an hour to the Palm Springs Convention Center (well, really, the hotel next door) as I was scheduled to take…
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Chuck Nohara Redux
(Redux: brought back, from the Latin word meaning returning, — or — from reducere to lead back. First Known Use: 1860. So now you know.) Well…I posted this photo recently, musing about how many more of these…
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Yvonne Porcella
Since I am an older quilter, I am familiar with many of the early pioneers in quilting, and one of them was Yvonne Porcella (photo above is from 1993). I just learned of her…
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Chuck Nohara Blocks, and This N’ That
It’s Chuck Nohara update time, as I just finished my last block for September. This is how one of them started: a wonky mess. I realized that while I had decided to paper piece…
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A Visit to Missouri Star Quilt Company
This past week I accompanied my husband on a long weekend, when he went to a scientific conference in Kansas City, Missouri. I’ve been going to this conference with him for many years, and have…
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Rosette #6 for the New Hexagon Millifiore Quilt-A-Long
Here’s my rosette #6 for The New Hexagon Millifiore Quilt-Along. And here is the original. Why did I change it? I started looking at all the composite views of the rosette and just thought…
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Roxanne’s Quilt Shop in Carpinteria, California
Roxanne’s Quilt Shop in Carpenteria, California is filled to the brim with colorful, quirky, to-die-for fabrics, yarns, threads and painted Featherweight sewing machines. I spent quite a bit of time looking at everything they…
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Beachside Quilting Retreat
Shortly after meeting Mary at QuiltCon, she texted me to say we ought to get together for a weekend at the beach, and suggested a date: September. That seemed so far away, but finally…
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