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Hallowe’en 1904 QAL–Step Five • Giveaway
ATTENTION!! THE LAST TWELVE REMAINING PATTERNS OF HALLOWE’EN-1904 IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT PRIMITIVE GATHERINGS ONLINE. ONCE THEY ARE GONE. . . THEY ARE GONE!!! Okay, see…
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Patriotic Home Sweet Home
Had a little fun yesterday, prepping up for the class I’m teaching this morning. I decided I needed a mini patriotic Home Sweet Home mini quilt to show for a class sample. Finished…
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May’s Blocks (and some of June)
Because my husband is busy this afternoon recovering from our trip (see below), I used an online generator to pick a winner today for the felt, and it’s Elizabeth (what a great name, eh?)…
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Oh Christmas Tree QAL–STEP 5
Today is Step 5 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 an assist from Wendy of Wendy’s…
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Quilt Market • Salt Lake City (3)
This quilt is called Over and Down Under, and is simply lovely. I want to make twenty. But this was a typical sort of sight and I’m afraid a typical sort of reaction from…
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Quilt Market: Salt Lake City (2) • Giveaway
First off, congratulations to Dorothy, who won the giveaway. I’ll be in touch with you, Dorothy, to get your mailing info and get that off to you next week. Thank you to all who…
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Quilt Market May 2016 • Day One • Giveaway
Yes! folks. That is me standing under the sign, nervous and excited as all get out. Yeah, I know it’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it. And there’s a little bit of…
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Starry Compass Rose
Starry Compass Rose Quilt # 156 I’d like to tell you the background about how I went to Quilt Market. I was contacted by Paintbrush Studios in November of 2015 to see if I…
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Beauty All Around
Beauty All Around Quilt # 162 Before I start on my market wrap-up posts (although Sherri of A Quilting Life has a nice array of photos of her Moda contemporaries), I wanted to show you…
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Summer 2016 Goals
To introduce my newest goal, I need to talk about my new pattern covers. I made them in a new software I’m trying to learn, Affinity Photo, fearful that any day my upgrades on…
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Not $ewing in Geneva
I know what you are thinking: what? more traveling? Well, my husband Dave is a scientist who studies genetic toxicology and was asked by the World Health Organization to come and work on a…
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Hallowe’en 1904 QAL–Step Four
It’s the WONKY STARS step! If you are appliquéing your stars onto your smaller background blocks, go for it and we’ll see you next month. For the rest of you, even those not making…
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Spectrum: A Colorwheel Quilt
Spectrum: A Colorwheel Quilt Quilt No. 153 You’ve seen this beauty before, as I’ve been working on it steadily since last summer. Since this summer is about to arrive, I thought I should finish…
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Riverside Sawtooth, a finished quilt top
Riverside Sawtooth, the name I’ve given for this original block of mine, has been finished — or at least the top has. It is a compilation of bee blocks from the Mid-Century Bee, as well…
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Oh Christmas Tree QAL –STEP 4
Today is Step 4 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 an…
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Good Friday: Four-in-Art Challenge • May 2016
Good Friday Quilt No. 164, May 2016 #2 in the Color Series: Music This quilt was inspired by time spent in Antonio Gaudi’s magnificent creation of La Sagrada Familia, a basilica in Barcelona, Spain. We visited…
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Downtime Sewing • Odds ‘n’ Ends
Or as my friend used to say, “Time flies whether you are having fun or not.” So what have I been doing? Blocks for our Spelling Bee for Carla, who has just opening a…
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New Quilting Machine
So here’s a short story: This all started two years ago when I test drove a Bernina FancyPants Machine during one of my Road to California classes. That thing could do everything but cook…
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Hallowe’en 1904 QAL–Step Three
Welcome again to the Hallowe’en 1904 Quilt-A-Long. As a refresher, we are making this quilt, a pattern from Blackbird Designs. I must admit it took me a while to re-orient myself to what-the-heck-I-am-doing in…
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Song and Color • Prepping for Four-in-Art Quilt
It’s hard to believe that just over two weeks ago, I was sitting in La Sagrada Familia in the center of the nave (they’d roped off the center section to protect it from the…
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A Little Inspiration, A Little Bit of Work
Sometimes, like after I’ve been gone from sewing for a while, I need to ease my way back into the creating. Sometimes I like to visit blogs by quilters, such as Jane Sassaman. (from…
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Oh Christmas Tree QAL • STEP 3
Here we are again, gathering together for the next step of the Oh Christmas Tree Quilt-A-Long (#ohchristmastreeqal), using the pattern found in Quiltmania’s Simply Moderne, issue #3, designed by Wendy Williams of Flying Fish…
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The Thread in Spain Stays Mainly on the Train
The title of this post came from Cathy, one of my Instagram readers, after I posted the above photo. I was on a train, in Spain, wrapping thread onto a little organizer. It totally cracked me up,…
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Three Mini Quilts and a Few Thoughts on Deliberate Practice
I started this July 2015, and you know what happened to me shortly after that, so it was nice to get it fixed up and quilted, because I’d had a purpose in mind:…
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Oh, yeah. My take on QuiltCon.
This popped up in my email one morning, and it about wraps it all up, as far as I’m concerned. No, I never met Claudia, but I did meet a few other fine quilters, including…
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Hallowe’en 1904 QAL–Step Two
STEP TWO: CUT!! Happy March 13th! My friend Leisa and I got busy this month, cutting up our fabrics so we could show you this step. I’ve made some alterations to our Master Plan…
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Teaching Schedule through Late Summer
I’ve signed up to teach a few classes at our local quilt shop, The Quilter’s Cocoon, and thought I’d let you know about them. The first three are mini quilts, where you learn a…
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