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Pineapple Quilt Borders: Progress?
I laid out all the pineapple blocks on a grey, cloudy, rainy day, but their brightness and color made them fun to work with (Yucky photographs, though.) I thought about all my bee mates…
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False Dawn (and a Giveaway!)
False Dawn Pieced and Quilted by Elizabeth Eastmond #138 of 200 Quilts 41 1/2″ high by 36″ wide Made for the Modern Quilt Guild Cotton Couture Classics Challenge Michael Miller, a manufacturer of fabrics,…
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SHINE Circles Block 7, EPP Sew-A-Long
It’s a new year, and with our new circles block #7, we’ve turned the corner and are more than halfway done. Yes, this does look remarkably similar to Block #1, because it is–only I’ve…
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Queen Bee for Mid-Century Modern, 2015
I’m Queen Bee again in my Mid-Century Modern Bee, and I know you are all surprised to see me again so soon. We had a reshuffling of months and I moved from November to this…
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Happy Old Year Ending: 2014
I see wrap-up posts often on people’s blogs, and while I feel like my 200 Quilts List (above) is sort of a way to move through my quilts, I present, one more time, 2014’s…
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Merry Christmas 2014
Allison Krauss and YoYo Ma: The Wexford Carol
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Pineapple Blocks
Before I descend into cooking and cleaning and more cooking and a bunch of dishes and family for Christmas, I thought I’d post all the pineapple blocks together. This is a combined effort of the Always…
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Welcome to Sew Mama Sew Visitors
Today at Sew Mama Sew, Debbie Jeske of A Quilter’s Table has rounded up fifteen binding tutorials; my Faced Binding Tutorial is one of them. *Here’s a link* to that complete list, which has…
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Christmas Tree Skirt
Christmas Tree Skirt 2014Quilt #141 on the 200 Quilts List(Post updated August 2019) Here I laid out the old Christmas Tree Skirt on top of the new one; it was made in the early…
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QuiltCon/Quilt Show Fun
I’ve been entering quilt shows since about the time I moved here to Southern California. The closest one was Road to California, and in those days, I always was accepted. Schooling interrupted my quilting,…
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Mini Sew-Together Bag
Woohoo!! It’s a Mini Sew Together Bag! A Mini Sew Together Bag has two pockets and is smaller than its big sister. (Two Regular Sew Together Bags and Four Mini Sew Together Bags) While…
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Lora’s Quilt
To Lora, with Love Quilt #139 Pieced by Elizabeth Eastmond, Quilted by Lisa J (Lora’s niece and my friend) This was the quilt top, and it measures 54″ tall and 43″ wide, before quilting…
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Nice to See You, Christmas Quilts!
We have a tradition that nothing Christmas happens until after the Thanksgiving meal. In the Old Days, when I had children at home, we’d sing Christmas carols that afternoon, a cluster of us at…
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Home Stretch: an Illusion
I finished up the quilting on the inner white field (background to the petal part) and thought–“Good! I’m in the home stretch!” Au contraire, mon ami. The next morning I got up and marked…
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Don’t Let the Process Overtake the Purpose
So here’s a dream story. I was driving someone home on a cliffside road, maybe it was the side of a dormant volcano or something–things are awfully hard to pin down in dreams. The…
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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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