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Sewing Sewing Sewing Along
To get you back in the mood for this post, here’s my son’s pumpkin. Did I tell you he has a great sense of humor and can write computer code that drives websites? First…
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Circles Block #6–another view, EPP Sew-A-Long
I told you in the last post that I’d made up another version of Circles #6, and today I’ll show you what I came up with. When I was sewing this up, I kept…
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Circles Block #6, EPP Sew-A-Long
Circle #6: Star of Wonder (but stay tuned. . . another variation of Circle #6 is coming in a couple of days) Welcome to my series of English-Paper Pieced Circles! I decided some time…
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Jazz, Light, Montreal, a Four-in-Art Quilt, November 2014
Jazz, Light, Montreal #5 in the Urban Series When the challenge theme was announced, of Light, I started looking and noticing urban light–both that which sheds or projects the light, and that which receives…
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Ralli Quilts and Conversations
I was fascinated by all the comments left on my last post about whether to not you choose to answer every comment on your blogs. The trigger, of course, was a couple of articles…
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Thinking about our Dialogue: Comments
(illustration from *here*) Okay, quilters, fess up. How many of you feel compelled to answer back every comment that shows up on your blog, whether it needs an answer or not? Those comments land…
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Thinking About Light
The next challenge reveal for our Four-in-Art Group is coming up on November 1st, and I’ve been thinking about the theme and how to interpret it. The year-long theme is Urban, and this challenge is…
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Criss-Cross Finished!
It all started with a request to join the Friendship X and + Swap, me digging out one lonely block from the back of the closet, marooned there from when I’d started to make…
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Free Pattern for Shopping Bags
As the Governor of California recently signed a bill banning those single-use shopping bags that we all get at the grocery stores, we’ve all been buzzing about what to replace it with. There is still…
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Antique Crib Quilts and Karl Benjamin
Recently we went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and viewed a small exhibition of crib quilts. I thought I’d share them with you because while they look so old and…
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Signature Quilt for Lora
Lora suddenly moved away and two of us in our church group decided she needed a quilt to remember us. One day she was here, puttering around in her house. Then a fall, where she…
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Circles Block #5, EPP Sew-Along
Circles Block #5 • Capella This is the fifth in our series of circle blocks, inspired by circles I’ve seen in my travels, as well as found on other quilts. I think this one…
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Bag for a Budding Interior Designer
Now that my daughter’s three young children are all in grade school, she decided it was time that she went back to school and study her favorite subject: Interior Design. She sent me these…
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Friendship Swap for the Cross-X Block
Criss-Cross Today is the day we reveal our quilts made in the Friendship Swap of the Cross-X blocks (some call them the + and x blocks). I got started on this through an invitation…
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Sew Together Bag, et al.
I present to you: THE SEW-TOGETHER BAG!! If you are from my quilt guild and are looking for the link to buy the pattern, it is *here.* Yes, you have to sign into Craftsy…
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Busy Quilty Weekend
This past Friday night was our little quilt group’s Quilt Night. We hold it the first Friday night of just about every month, taking off some here and there. Lisa (on the left) and…
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Sol LeWitt’s Patchwork Primer
Sol LeWitt’s Patchwork Primer Quilt #135 of 200 Quilts 47″ square It started with a catalogue my father had of Sol LeWitt’s work, and I read it cover to cover, bookmarking different pages and ideas…
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SHINE: Circles Block 4, EPP
Circle #4: Pravoslavni Park Here is the fourth circle in our EPP Sew-A-Long, another circle taken from Ljubljana, Slovenia in an ornately painted church. I chose not to make the outer arcs in a…
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Goals for Fall 2014
I used to belong to the FAL thing–“Finish A Long” and loved loved it. But because of my personal lifetime karma of Never Winning a Prize, I decided that while it was still beneficial…
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Straighten Up and Sew Right
(from *here*) It had been nearly a month since I’d threaded the needle of my sewing machine and sent it to humming, and I felt like the sad seamstress in the photo, above, pining…
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Where Creativity Lurks: My Around The World Blog Hop Post (done my way)
a picture of the connections of the World Wide Web, from here We scan through page after page of blogs, fingers working the mouse, images flying by until one catches our eye. Pinned! Now…
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Summer Report
What I Did This Summer (And can it already be over??) 1. Went to Utah and ate a Crab Sandwich at a Kneaders Sandwich Shop 2. Went to the beach with my grandkids and…
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Inspiration. . . and a Giveaway!
In the book I just finished reading, Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon, he writes that “Nothing is original.” He quotes Jonathan Lethem who notes that “when people call something ‘original,’ nine out of ten times…
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Circles Block #3, EPP Sew-A-Long
This month the block is a tad more difficult, but my primary motto on these things is “I Make The Mistakes So You Don’t Have To.” Here we go. And where did the inspiration…
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Deconstruction of Ted and Maurice at Lorinc Pap Ter, an Art Quilt
This post is a deconstruction of the techniques I used to create Ted and Maurice at Lorinc Pap Ter, a small (12″ square) art quilt for the Four-in-Art Quilt group. Our challenge this quarter…
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Ted and Maurice at Lorinc Pap Ter, a Four-in-Art Quilt, August 2014
Ted and Maurice at Lorinc Pap Ter No. 4 in the Urban Series It all started here, in a small square in Budapest right outside our hotel, on a recent overseas trip. We walked…
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