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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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Childhood’s Wide Avenues, deconstructed
Thank you all for your lovely comments yesterday and for visiting the rest of the Four-In-Art quilts. The reveal day is one of my favorite days of all the blog writing I do, as…
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Childhood’s Wide Avenues
Childhood’s Wide Avenues is a quilt about memory, of fixing in time a place and a feeling. I grew up in the mountain west, in Provo, Utah, a town laid out in a grid…
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Santa So Far
I received two more blocks from my bee-mates today, and it was a good conclusion to a Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day in class. One boy cried, but not because of anything I…
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Back Porch Fabrics in Pacific Grove, CA
My friend Beth and I headed over to Pacific Grove to explore Back Porch Fabrics, located in Pacific Grove, California, just up the road from Carmel and next door to Monterey, California. It has…
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Pacific Grove Blues
Oh, yes, you’ve seen this before, but only (as the Australians say) as a flimsy, a quilt top. So I needed to get a few projects done and finished and this was next on…
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WIP: Bits and Pieces
I’m finishing up bits and pieces, collecting bits and pieces, and am covered with bits and pieces of thread (On Mondays and Wednesdays — my teaching days — I’m always worried I’ll stand up…
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America Is A Tune: October Schnibbles Quilt
America Is A Tune (it must be sung together) finished October 2013 Quilt #122 on my 200 Quilts List I was making this quilt all during the recent embarrassing shut-down of our country. It…
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Map Musings
Since the quarterly reveal date for our Four-In-Art is coming up in a couple of days, I thought it was high time to sit down and think about this new overall theme of Urban,…
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WIP Wednesday: Schnibbles Time, again
It’s Wednesday and it’s been a long time since I’ve linked up with the fabulous Lee at Freshly Pieced Fabrics and I mean to remedy that today. I’ve got all the Schnibbles bits up…
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Friendship Swap
Two of my Mid-Century Modern Bee buddies, Carla of Lollyquiltz and Susan of PatchworknPlay have teamed up to run a Friendship Swap of the Cross-X blocks. I had originally pled “no way!” but then…
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