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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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Breaking up the Quilting Work: A Few Thoughts on Refueling While Working
In a recent article about taking restful breaks in 99U, written by Christian Jarrett, he talks about the need for “truly restful breaks” when working hard on a project–which are different that just taking a…
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Happy First of September
A new month begins with this. . .the list of the Chuck Nohara Blocks to work on. I finished up Mary‘s block and sent over to her. This 12″ block comes from a free paper-pieced…
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Friendship Swap
A few months ago, Vicki contacted me and asked me if I wanted to do a Friendship Swap. I almost said no, as I had sworn off of swaps, but I so like her…
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Summer Bee, Quilting, and Chuck Nohara Updates
Updating you on my Chuck Nohara block progress. I finished off the incredibly complicated floral wreath block in the upper left. Susan and I (and Bette) are working together on this, with Susan choosing…
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Keagan’s Quilt
Keagan, my first grandchild, came to visit me last month (along with her Mom–our daughter– and family. She’s crazy about Paris and France and all things French, so I collected a few fabrics before…
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Legacy
This is my Mom. Dad is nearby, as always, watching over her. This is a quilt that took her two years of living life abroad in Lima, Peru to make, putting in one cross-stitch…
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Quarterly Challenge for November 2016
Since we are doing a yearly theme of color, the next challenge also has to do with a particular hue. Rachel just announced our theme of “I’ve got the blues” for our November 2016…
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Jill in the Pulpit: Four-in-Art Challenge • Aug 2016
Jill in the Pulpit Quilt No. 166, August 2016 #3 in the Color Series: Purple Passion I have no serious thoughts about the color purple even though there’s a novel with that title, and even though it…
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Purple Passion
(Please note the updated directions on the final Oh Christmas Tree post (highlighted in pink). Thanks. Okay back to our regularly scheduled programming.) What is Purple Passion? A drink from the 1980s? A variety…
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Oh Christmas Tree QAL • Step 7 (Final)
Today is Step 7 — the final step — of our Oh Christmas Tree Quilt-a-Long (#ohchristmastreeqal), following a pattern by Wendy of FlyingFishKits and which was published in Simply Moderne issue #3, by QuiltMania. As always, we have…
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