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Flying Through Rainbows
In a series of interviews with new poets, they each expressed their confusion, discussed their work ethic, and acknowledged the daily drudgery — and joy — of being able to create and work. (See…
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If I Do This, Can I Do That? April 2025
If I go to see all my kids, will I be able to recover from the trip? If I buy this, can I buy that? If I choose to sew this project, will I…
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A Life Full of Yes
Candy Clark, who has just published a book of Polaroid photographs of her younger life with the Hollywood stars of her era noted in a recent article that looking backward to this time wasn’t…
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Sewing in Translation
You know when I stood in the shopping area of Carrefour Quilt Show last September (2024), I wanted to buy up all the fabrics and patterns and everything, but alas my suitcase was small,…
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March 2025 This and That
A post where I go wild with cultural references, quilts and art, but don’t worry–everything fits right into a This-and-That. My friend Jamie sent me this photo of one of my quilt designs in…
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Personal History of Quilting
“Hope is a discipline and…we have to practice it every single day. Because in the world which we live in, it’s easy to feel a sense of hopelessness, that everything is all bad all…
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Two Quilt Finishes • March 2025
What is this mess? My exploded Orphan Quilt Box. I’ve been putting things in here for nearly two decades (the little airplane blocks are for my grandson’s baby quilt, and he just went off…
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Happy 50 Years!
First, a continuation of a story. Remember this quilt? And how when I went to find the binding, I couldn’t…and then a friend wrote to say, “Oh, you sent me that fabric!” Then that…
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Duck Creek • Quilt Finish
Duck Creek • quilt #302 I know you are really here to see the info on this beautiful mural. It’s by Rosy Cortez, and was done under her guidance by a team of helpers.…
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Incomplete
I keep finding WIPs. Here’s one from eleven (!) years ago: More about the process on this post, but this was discovered when I was looking for a February-ish theme for my Instagram Monthly…
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Why do I do this? • February 2025 This and That
BlueSky comment: “What a great hobby (and don’t be upset if it’s more than a hobby). These quilts are beautiful. Quilting is fascinating to me.” Hobby. Hmmm. (This person obviously doesn’t know quilters.) I…
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Road to California 2025
This is in two parts: the top is the bits and pieces.The bottom are the quilts. Yes, they are all in one post, so get your popcorn and let’s get scrolling. Road to California,…
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Don’t Ask Me — they all just crept in!
It’s traditional for everyone on the planet, not just quilters, to make a list of projects they want to complete in the upcoming year. No, it’s not. The rest of the world makes resolutions.…
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Last I checked, I’m still here
I was supposed to be on a road trip to see art and family. We were going to duck in to a wintery state on a week that was forecast to be freezing cold…
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Happy Old Year Ending 2024
Can I squeeze just one more quilt in here? I’ve made several quilts with prominent flowers in my tenure as a Quilter Who Just Keeps Making. Scroll quickly and you’ll have a flower show…
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Merry Christmas 2024
Madonna and Child Marianne Stokes (1909) I hope you have a very merry day– (a favorite carol for today)
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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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