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Getting Unstuck • This and That December 2024
What do sunflowers have to do with getting unstuck? And why on earth does the term “Fibonacci” sequence come into play? I happily pinned up this quilt, finding some cheerful plaid backing in the…
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Turning of the Year
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold;New succeed, as former things grow old. Robert Herrick, from Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve I don’t know how many more turns this life does hold,…
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Christmas Trees • Quilt Finish
Biography of this quilt: Factoid #1: It could be Christmas Trees. It could be Easter Trees. It could be Halloween Trees, even though I posed it in a Christmasy setting in a small town…
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Mercato Square • Quilt Finish
You’ve seen this quilt in a sketch — before — but here it is finished. In that linked post, I showed all different kinds of ways to color this quilt, and in different sizes,…
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Crossing the Divide • Quilt Finish
The phrase, crossing the divide, has haunted me for a while now, ever since my husband Dave and I crossed the Continental Divide twice on our April road trip. While I was driving, and…
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Keep Kalm-a-La and Carry On-A-La
Well, my candidate didn’t win. However, I was making this bag the whole last week of the election, and because I was inadvertently using the Keep Calm and Carry On (only it was Press…
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This and That • October 2024
This month last year I saw an eclipse and cranked out not one, but two quilts to the quilter that month. And this year?? A slog through covid, which still lingers with the double…
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Carrefour 2024: Quilts V
Carrefour Quilt Show was a lively, interesting and fascinating experience. This final post is about two different places in the 29th Carrefour European Patchwork Show (2024): A full listing of all the artists is…
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Carrefour 2024: Quilts IV
This post is about two different places in the 29th Carrefour European Patchwork Show: Hope you are all still with me, with seeing quilts from all over quilt land, but mostly from the European…
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Carrefour 2024: Quilts III
This post is about two different places in the 29th Carrefour European Patchwork Show: Hope you are all still with me, with seeing quilts from all over quilt land, but mostly from the European…
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Carrefour 2024: Quilts II
I’m writing about the experience my husband and I had at Carrefour European Patchwork Show in 2024, in Alsace France. All posts in order are on the European Patchwork (Carrefour) page. Previously, we arrived…
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Carrefour 2024: Quilts 1
(I had meant to roll these out quickly, every few days, but I brought home covid and it has stayed too long. My apologies.) There are over sixteen different venues between the four towns…
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Carrefour European Patchwork Show 2024
All posts in order are on the European Patchwork (Carrefour) page. The Carrefour European Patchwork Meeting was held September 12-15, 2024, in a series of small villages in the Alsace region of France, and…
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Strawberry & Saint Marie-aux-Mines
I have so much to share from my trip to the Carrefours European Patchwork Show in Alsace, France last month, but first…strawberries. I know we just did Halloweeeeen, but when my beemate asked for…
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Halloween is coming…
To kick off the month October, I’m offering up a coupon for 31% discount on any one pattern in my PayHip shop until the 31st. Those of you who hang out here know I…
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Twilight Garden • Quilt Finish
One summer night when we were sitting out in the garden, the year before all the mosquitoes arrived, we watched the bats dip and speed away, the tiny bird dash in to alight on…
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Halloween in the Vegetable Patch
At first I thought it was a squash patch, but there were the onions. And the carrots. And the cabbage and corn, so I included them all: Of course, the fabric is by J.…
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Do you like giant?
Giant ideas? Giant bugs? Giant fabric stores? Giant mounds of laundry? Sometimes we like giant things, like big spaces, big bowls of our favorite desert, big travel trips that include The Very Large Array.…
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Quilt Care | Surface Designs
Freebie alert! Now you can give them to the people who get your quilts. Download the freebie below by clicking on the button. This is what it looks like: four to page. Print it…
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Coquelicot (Poppy) • quilt finish
“What’s odd about commencement is that so many people think of it as the end of something, the end of high school or college—but that’s not what the word means at all. It means…
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Quilt Finish: (dreaming in color)
I have a 2-D Brain. Yesterday we went to our town’s Maker Space which was filled with all kinds of machines from sublimation to a movie studio to laser cutters to several 3D printers,…
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Build Me a Cabin • Quilt Finish
I hate cautionary tales, but this quilt is certainly one of them. I mean, it wasn’t meant to be — I just wanted a clean-lined easy-to-stitch quilt, with a bit of impact, but then…
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New York Beauties: Old Friend
New York Beauties is like an old friend: we’ve hung out together, we’ve been sad together, happy together, goofed off together, and are now celebrating together a milestone: this flimsy is finished. I cut…
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Double Header for New York Beauties: Remembrance (6) and Waking (7)
Okay, think on that quote for a while. Found while doomscrolling (is that one word, or two?) on Instagram, I wanted to read the whole article, but then I’d have to buy a subscription…
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Blooming • Block 5 • New York Beauties
I don’t know. Maybe she’s right. Annie Dillard, in The Writing Life, says “how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and that…
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New York Beauties • Block 12 • Hopeful
Are we there yet? millions of traveling children must have asked, as the miles piled up. And maybe you are asking if we are done yet with these New York Beauties blocks. Not yet,…
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Invention/Re-invention
I received the sweetest letter this week from Laurie, who makes regular quilts as well as paints barn quilts. She chose my Home, Sweet Home pattern to make her design, and thoughtfully included a…
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