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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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Mercato Square • new pattern
Mercato = market = me thinking about Italy, and really how fun the market squares are wherever you are, but especially in Italy. Okay, and maybe in France. Couple this with needing a block…
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Vespers, NYBeauties Block 10
Is it a hard-to-make block? Not at all. But it kinda broke my brain a little. This picture illustrates my vexation. On the left, and using the color swatches in the top row, is…
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For the Beauty of the Earth: Quilt Finish
For the Beauty of the Earth • Quilt No. 287 Just a little postscript to what I’ve been working on lately, and you’ve seen it all before.Thank you all for noticing my little corner…
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Cereus: New York Beauties Block 9
If you say “Cereus” it sounds like “Sirius” which is a legit star in our heavens. And if you spell it slightly differently — like Cerus (which I think it was started out to…
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A Basket/Quilt of Fruit for Mother’s Day
All the fruits are finished, and applied to the background this week. I tried three different centers, from white daisies on red (no), a double plaid (no), a beautiful radish print (no). Dots. That’s…
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Collage: My Sewing Desk is a Mess!
(And some other stuff) I’m not by nature a terrifically tidy sewer, preferring to let my (ahem) creativity spill all over when I stitch. But doing one of those collage quilts where you iron…
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Happy Valley Quilt Finish • This and That April 2024
Need some insight into my quilting? Here it is: the “Insight Table” for the HandiQuilter Sweet Sixteen. This table was purchased in another life, in January of this year. I had avoided trying to…
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Small Steps: Push-Pull
I’ve been thinking a lot about Push, and Pull. The terms are popularly used when discussing how we interact with the internet. We receive Push Notifications, which means that someone, somewhere is sending us…
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Eclipse Road Trip 2024
This is a picture-book post of our recent trip in the Southwest of the United States of America, partly to see the total eclipse (it was cloudy where we were, but we made the…
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Radiate • New York Beauties Block 3
Radiate: “emit (energy, especially light or heat) in the form of rays or waves” (from the Oxford Dictionary) — OR — “(of a feeling or quality) emanate clearly from, as in “leadership and confidence radiate from…
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Quilt Your Life, Quilt Your Stuff
For most of her life, Jessie Homer French worked without much expectation or hope of attention or sales or critical acclaim. In a recent article, she said “I paint my life, my stuff. I…
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Cool Rays • New York Beauties Block 2
After leaping around the line-up, we return to Block #2, but instead of the more traditional sew-it-in-rip-it-out, it’s made with freezer paper. Apparently this method is the hot new tutorial/class/method, and you could do…
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Time is a Dressmaker • Quilt Finish
Faith Baldwin said that quote, and I’ve saved it for ages, waiting to use it as a quilt title. I started this with a whole new stack of colors than my last temperature quilt,…
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Shimmer: New York Beauties Block 8
This is not Shimmer‘s first rodeo. It first started as “Dazzle” and I liked it, but then I was playing around one night and came up with that bias-stripey-trim on the outer ring, and…
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February 2023 • This and That
I finished all the tendrils and vines and flowers and now just have the center circles to appliqué and so I started thinking, what’s next? A border with leaves…with flower buds and occasionally not…
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Aurora: New York Beauties Block 11
Yeah, I promised I’d do these blocks every two weeks, but it was a day I wasn’t weeping over Dad and stuff, and I could breathe and the sun was out and the white…
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