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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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Creative Housekeeping
I read Grant Snider faithfully, as he is an artist who often captures the frustrations I feel in my creative world (while trying to juggle that OTHER world of job, laundry, etc.). I thought…
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Deep Summer
In deep summer, everything moves a little slower because of the heat. The sewing slows down because we’re at the beach, or watching Endeavor on the television, or just lazily talking after dinner on…
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Pineapple Quilt Block (for Bee-mates)
As my friend Susan of Patchworknplay says, I’m Queen Bee. I wrote this post as I had both my bees, the Always Bee Learning Bee (August) and the Mid-Century Modern Bee (November), make this…
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Happy to Be Home
Well, the laundry is done, but I’m still walking into walls, as the jet lag recovery seems fiercer this time, perhaps complicated by the arrival of my son and his family 24 hours after…
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Independence Day
Happy Fourth of July! I just returned from a long trip to Croatia, Slovenia and Budapest, and am still trying to figure out what time zone I’m in. As soon as I do,…
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SHINE Circles Block 2, English Paper Piecing
Circles Block #2: Sunshine Here we go again, with the second block in our slow sewing, English Paper Piecing, series of circles. While I call it Sunshine, because of the fabric I used, the…
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Some Interesting Circle Quilts
While looking through this blog, I found some examples of interesting circle quilts. This one, made by Kathleen H. McCrady and titled Sawtooth X, is patterned after an old one from 1875, using reproduction fabrics in…
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Cleaning the Design Wall
Since I am away from the computer for a while, I’m running a few favorite, previously published posts. This one originally ran on July 22, 2010, but is modified for today’s post. ˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚ Here’s the before:…
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Process vs. Product
Since I am away from the computer for a while, I’m running a few favorite, previously published posts. This one originally ran on July 16, 2010, but is modified for today’s post. ˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚ Is it possible…
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Contrasts: Four-in-Art August 2014 Challenge
from *here* The theme for our August 1st Challenge Reveal is “Contrast.” Anne suggests the contrasts inherent in cities: noisy/quiet, man-made/natural, fast/slow, wealthy neighborhood/poor neighborhood. I have started thinking about this, but first, my…
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