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Two Blocks, Two Machines
Bees are interesting things. I’m in a new one and am still figuring out how it ticks when this block arrived in the mail. The instructions read to leave the quadrants unsewn as the…
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Finish-A-Long, Q3 Wrap-Up and Quarter 4 Goals
These were the goals of Quarter Three of the Finish-A-Long, hosted by Leanne of She Can Quilt. 1. Hunter’s Star is finished, and is renamed At the Bandstand, Under A Starry Night — Quilt…
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A Quibble and A Muse or Two
To prove to my Mid-Century Modern Bee, that I am on task, getting ready for their blocks, I decided to start on the center Santa. And instead of raw-edge fusible applique, I went with…
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Queen Bee for Mid-Century Modern
As Susan, one of our the members of our Mid-century Modern Bee says, I’m the Queen Bee this month. And I’ve chosen to have my bee-mates help me on my Christmas Quilt. But so…
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Juxtaposition • Quilt Finish
I finished my quilt, and I’ve titled it Juxtaposition. Every quilt teaches me something, and this one taught me to try again, to not get discouraged, to discover new ways of doing things. This…
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Sand, Sea, Schnibbles and Y-seams
Joyce Carol Oates, the very prolific American novelist and writer was asked what she did when she finished a novel. Did she go on vacation? Did she stare into space? “I read poetry,” she said.…
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Autumn Tote and Center Square
This week I spent holed up in hotel room, sewing on fun things left and right. And some not so fun things, that turned out to be fun things, once they turned out. The…
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At the Bandstand, Under a Starry Night
At the Bandstand, Under a Starry Night, front I’ve written about this quilt on this blog before, where I referred to it as Hunter’s Star, a description of the block. But now it is…
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Not All Dirt and Rocks
The quilting community is priceless–I see it on blogs, on Instagram, in quilt shops, and in smaller groups that gather together. And in my case, this week, the comments I received about my frustration…
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Quilting. . . and a Sticky Question
It begins here. I printed off a picture of my quilt, then took a fine-point sharpie to “quilt” in the designs I thought I would do. Then this happens. Over and over, on each…
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From Baskets to a Museum–more quilts in Utah
While visiting relatives in Utah, just before I tucked into the new semester of teaching (which would explain why I have been AWOL for a couple of weeks), my husband and I headed to…
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Totes (Like I Need Another One)
My mother used to have a stack of boxes back beside the freezer in the garage. They were mailing boxes, gift boxes, boxes to put your pet turtle in, and boxes that were there…
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Elaine’s Quilt Block–Salt Lake City, Utah
Whenever we go to Utah to visit relatives, I try to find a quilt shop to visit. Elaine’s Quilt Block quilt shop is very close to my sister-in-law’s house, which could be verrrry dangerous,…
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Saturday Check-in
We put the Four-In-Art Quilts up above my window in my sewing room. I like seeing them all lined up. I don’t really live in a jungle. It just looks like it from this…
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WIP–An Oldie, But Goodie
I made this for my youngest son’s college freshman dorm bed when he went off to school, lo these many years ago (now he’s married, has a job and is getting his masters). I…
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Bee Blocks & Winner of Project Folio
First, while my husband and I were watching Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway in Three Days of the Condor, I leaned over to him and said, “Give me a number between one and sixteen.”…
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Elizabeth’s Project Folio–Part III (Bringing it Home)
Elizabeth’s Project Folio, front and filled with my next project, a bag made of Keiko Goke fabric Elizabeth’s Project Folio, back Elizabeth’s Project Folio, interior of blue folio These are not only good for…
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Project Folio–Part II
This is part two of the tutorial for the Project Folio. Click *here* for part one. STEP TWO: Making the Front Vinyl Window The side (1 1/2″ wide) strips go on first, on the shorter…
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Project Portfolio Tutorial–Part I
A long time ago, in a foreign market, I bought zip portfolios to hold stuff. But they weren’t always quite right–too small, too rigid–for my projects, too wrong-sized. So I decided this summer to…
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Four-in-Art: Maps
The Four-in-Art group has chosen Urban as our overarching theme for this next year of quilts. We will reveal quilts on the first of November in 2013, and February, May and August of 2014.…
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Summer Giveaway Winners
You are all winners in my book–just take a look at all that was accomplished this summer! I’m generally terrible at picking winners; I personally LOATHE the random number generator, but don’t mind their…
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On the Occasion of an Anniversary
The Passionate Shepherd To His Love With apologies to Christopher Marlowe, 1592 Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and vallies, dales and fields,…
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Summer Giveaway
So why a giveaway? Oh, I don’t know–it’s coming down to the end of summer, I picked up a couple of cute things at Long Beach Quilt Show, and why not? The top photo…
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This and That and a New Baby
While the rest of us have been having a summer, my son and his wife have been having a baby: they flew to Iowa (sweet corn country) to pick up their newest son, making…
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Faced Binding Tutorial
A faced binding is applied to the front of your quilt and is wrapped to the back. If done well, it can’t be seen at all from the front, allowing the last border of…
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Congruence, Deconstructed
Our reveal for the fourth challenge quilt in our art group, Four-in-Art Quilters, was yesterday and today I’ll tell you how it came together. I first started by looking a what seemed like billions…
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Congruence, a Four-in-Art Challenge Quilt
Congruence, #4 in the Four-in-Art Nature series In one of Mary Oliver’s poem, “Praise,” she watches an owl “as it flies over the water” with its “heart-shaped face,” hunting down “some little life. . .…
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