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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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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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