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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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Roaring into March
First off the bat, the winners of the giveaway, using the Husband Random Name Generator were: Janice, who wrote: “WOW! I just began following your blog and missed the start up of this QAL.…
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Oh Christmas Tree-QAL–Step 2
I’ve been haunting the IG feed #ohchristmastreeqal and love seeing all the progress of where the trees are and how things are coming along. We’ll finish this tree up in no time flat, but…
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QuiltCon Prepping Fun
Since I will taking a class from Lizzy House on Block Printing (see random sample from web, above), and since I decided I’d had enough of “have-to” sewing, I wanted to just whip up something…
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Lanyard Tutorial for Quilt Shows
I didn’t have a lanyard last year at QuiltCon, and my pins slipped and slid everywhere, beside the fact that I jingle-jangled as I walked. I wanted one of those spiffy ones, where I…
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Halloween 1904 Quilt-A-Long
(Picture borrowed from the amazing Thelma of Cupcakes and Daisies here) So now that the Spelling Bee is underway for the year, as well as some other quilt-a-longs I’m involved in (Oh Christmas Tree) I…
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February’s Procrastination
I did the Husband Random Name Generator today and Diane Nelson is the winner of the pearl cotton bubbles. Congratulations, Diane! I mailed them off this afternoon to you. Glad you are making good…
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Oh Christmas Tree QAL–Step 1
I’ve been busy shopping for wools, wool felts, felted wools and all combos in between. See below for an explanation of what they all are, although you’ve probably figured it out by now. For…
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Friend and Foe: Four-in-Art Challenge • Feb 2016
Friend & Foe Quilt No. 156, February 2016 #1 in the Color Series: Microscope We have a new year and new members (see below) and a new theme: Color. And this quarter’s challenge was “microscope.” So…
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Chuck Nohara • January 2016 blocks finished
Happy to report that I finished my January’s Chuck Nohara Blocks a few days early, even with totally redoing the house on the hill block (#cn968). (The upper left fabrics are from Sherri and…
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Reflections on Road to California 2016
It was a lovely ride. Road to California began as a local quilt juried quilt show that over 20+ years has built itself up to be a nationally-ranked show with outstanding quilts in all categories.…
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Microscopy for Four-in-Art Feb 2016
This microscopic image is cocaine. I found it while researching images for this quarter’s Four-in-Art challenge of “microscopic.” The overarching theme is color, so of course, I was drawn to this as an idea…
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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
The winner of our giveaway is Quilter in Motion, aka Marsha. And no, she doesn’t get a chicken dinner–I just like saying that. Thank you so much for all your birthday memories–I loved reading…
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Oh Christmas Tree Quilt-A-Long & a Giveaway!
When I first saw this Christmas Tree on Instagram, I fell in love. So I proposed a Quilt-A-Long that would force enable me to to get it completed in time for Christmas 2016, for…
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Chuck Nohara Blocks • January 2016
Note: This was supposed to be published in a few days, but the Flying Monkeys took over and things just got a little out of control over here. Over and Out. Most of the…
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Spelling Bee Begins • January 2016
Sometime ago, I hatched an idea of making letters and words and ideas up in cloth. Not a new idea, but just one that emerged from the morass to capture my attention, I’d say. Getting a…
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Merry Christmas 2015
Christmas Treat Wallhanging (from here) Merry Christmas 2015! Largely because of traveling and family obligations, this season has felt like a mad dash, reminding me of the runners I met in the Metro in DC one December…
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Final Finishes for 2015
Thank you for all your kind comments on IG and on the last post. A lot of this post was mostly written before the San Bernardino tragedy, so it may seem lighthearted. But it…
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Too Close to Home
I can’t stop thinking about all those who went to work yesterday morning, and will never go home again.
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Two Finishes: Baskets and a Halloween Quilt for 2016
NOTE: Please forgive the blog gremlins who used to work here. To quote Monty Python, they have been sacked.Quilt Number 154 Spooky Action at a Distance Construction began October 2015 • Finished November 2015 I…
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