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Olympic Geese
Well, first, Happy Belated Valentine’s Day! (card is from my husband) And I made some cookies (recipe *here*) for the occasion. But in amongst the papers that had to be graded and the handouts…
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WIP: Those Pesky Envelope Blocks
These blocks are like the growly little animal down the block that tries to grab your pant leg as you walk by, as if to say that they own the sidewalk and you’d better…
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Road to California 2014, part II
There was a great exhibit of quilts from the book I was lucky enough to be in: Amish Quilts, The Adventure Continues. As always, seeing them in person, beats a flat picture or a…
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Road to California 2014, part I
No matter how many times I go, I’m always excited to walk in the front door of the convention center, see these hanging quilts (this one is by Nancy Boyce Geese in the Fields)…
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Structure: Four-in-Art Art Quilt, February 2014
On Line No. 2 in the Urban Series: Structure Leanne asked us to consider the theme of Structure for this challenge. While other ideas teased, the vision of these immense structures of steel and…
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Friendship Cross-X Block Swap, January 2014
Since it’s the last Friday of the month, it’s time to post our Friendship Cross-X block swap blocks. Say that one five times really fast. Our Flickr group is *here* and you can…
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WIP on a Thursday
I love that Lee, of Freshly Pieced Fabrics, forgot to put up Works In Progress Wednesday until today, for that’s about the speed I’m moving at this week and it makes me feel better…
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A New Place to Photograph My Quilts
I was looking for a way to hang my quilts just for taking a photo of them. You saw my old set-up in an earlier post–stapled sheet to garage door, which doesn’t exist anymore.…
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Oh, The Places I’ve Been!
Well. I’m exaggerating a bit. I went into Los Angeles to meet my sister, who was accompanying her husband for his treatments here, in the Saperstein Center, at Cedars Sinai Hospital. I’m including this…
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A Record of Quilts–Making A Quilt List
I have two links up above, one titled “100 Quilts List” and the other “200 Quilts List.” It’s been interesting to be able to say with some accuracy how many quilts I’ve made over…
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Amish Quilt, in progress
Finished the inner top. Put on two borders and still have one border to go this gigantic quilt (finishing at 105″ square). What was I thinking? I was thinking I loved the colors, the…
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Cross-X Swap, January Update
Krista sent me these too close to Christmas to post (and besides, no one was reading any blogs that week anyway), so here they are on the New Year, now that we’ve all put…
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2013 Finish-A-Long, Quarter Four
This was my declaration of Things To Be Finished, for the 2013 Finish-A-Long, Quarter 4, hosted by Leanne, of She Can Quilt. I’d put only four things on my list: my signature quilt, the…
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Silver and Gold Friendship Quilt
Silver and Gold The Toni Jones Quilt finished December 2013 Toni Jones moved into the house up the cul-de-sac from mine, a welcome addition to our neighborhood. With her six children to my four,…
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Santa Claus Has Come To Town!
Jolly Old St. NicholasFinished December 2013 Doesn’t Santa arrive on the 24th? Well, we just made it in time, over here. I started this in late September of this year, and finished it early…
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‘Twas the Week Before Christmas
Well. Almost the last week before Christmas (ten days to go, says the Advent Calendar on our fridge). Given that I’ve been >>sick<< with ick and asthma and blah for too long, and that…
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In Bed With a Bad Cold
In Bed with a Bad Cold by Pam Rupert Posted without permission. (Pam, if you wish, I’ll remove it, but thanks for your great rendition!) And this was the Christmas Tree down at Urgent…
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Ay-Yi-Yi! It’s Christmas!
Well, that tune is playing right now on the iTunes list, and it’s true–no presents yet. But we’ve started setting out my husband’s nutcracker collection, and pretending that Christmas isn’t 22 DAYS AWAY!! So…
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Friendship Cross-X Block Swap, part 1
First, start with four blocks, and plan to send two to Krista in October. Realize that this was merely a good intention, and as you missed October’s Friendship Swap post, you’ll save them to…
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Y-Seam Tutorial
During Thanksgiving Week, I thought it was time to re-post this tutorial from Leanne’s blog, from the Third Quarter Finish-A-Long Tutorials. As background, I’ve been sewing and quilting for more years than I should…
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A Quiet Week
After the big TaDa! moment of getting Santa and his blocks and his neighborhood all done, it was a quiet week. No bee blocks. No quilting. No sewing, unless you count the samples that…
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Santa’s Village Quilt Top Completed
After three days of sewing non-stop, except for the time when I went out to Costco to buy vegetables, or the time I took to talk on the phone to my mother and others,…
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Some Friday Finishes
Working on some Christmas Trees to go around this guy: I finished up the center, bordered it with red, and arranged and sewed the blocks from my bee-mates in the Mid-Century Modern Bee. I…
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WIP Wednesday
I seem to be on an Amish trend. First the book announcement and a round-up of my Amish quilts, and then with this WIP Wednesday, news of my Amish With A Twist-2 BOM status.…
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What I Learned from the Cedars-Sinai Hospital Hallway Art
This collection started as a way to help a beloved husband heal. I was there to share some time with my sister, as her beloved husband is battling cancer. But when I went to…
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Harvest Weekend
With pumpkins and tawny hues and brown grasses prevalent in the colors at this time of year and in the Northern Hemisphere, falling temperatures, it triggers the idea of harvest: cutting the wheat, gathering…
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