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Portuguese Tile Quilt–top’s all done!
Tomorrow: some tips and tricks on assembly. But for today, just a quilt. UPDATE: While this was called the Portuguese Tile Quilt during its creation, the final name is Harvesting the Wind.
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Polaroid Blocks
Woo-hoo! All the little Polaroid blocks arrived from the Polaroid Block Swap. I laid them out and looked at them all, and really thought some lovely quilters somewhere had done a fine job making…
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PTQ/WIP
PTQ is how I’ve taken to calling the Portuguese Tile Quilt since writing out the long name is tedious. But tonight when my husband came upstairs to check on me (his cave is downstairs,…
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Portuguese Tile Quilt
I started with this picture of some tiles from Portugal. Then I mocked up a quilt in my Quilt-Pro 5 program. I mapped it out with 8″ squares, set 6 across in 6 rows,…
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Exhaustion
Life is one long process of getting tired. (Samuel Butler, novelist) If you see a whole thing, it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives… But up close a world’s all dirt and rocks.…
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More WIPs than I Need
Yes, I did the time-honored tradition of quilters everywhere, that when you can’t finish what you’ve got going (Summer Treat, Lollypop Trees) make the leap and add to your stash. Here’s my latest additions,…
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Scrappy Stars!
Scrappy Stars, full view I can finally write this post, as I caught Dave before he picked up his latest Donna Leon book (see the picture at the end for my stack). I used…
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Garden of Your Mind
I don’t generally post videos and other things on here, but I read about this on Becky Goldsmith’s blog (Piece O’ Cake), and fell in love with it. I have felt lately like my…
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This is really my work in progress: my class on Critical Thinking, and here’s a stack of books I’d assembled to cull through, glean from. But in the end I found as much help…
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My Head’s in a Book. . . or Two
I should be annotating the readings I assigned to my students with my brand new colored pencils, but instead my brain’s rebelled. It is Saturday after all, and I need a break. Remember the…
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WIP–Summer Treat Quilt Top
Many thanks to Rebecca, who is subbing for Lee at Freshly Pieced, for hosting our WIPs. Click on the link to be taken back over to that site to see others who are sharing…
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Long Beach–Final Post
It’s the final post because it’s time to move on, maybe moan about the first week of school where my classroom was 83 degrees. Whose idea is it to begin school in the middle…
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Long Beach Quilt Show: Log Cabins
I’m just sneaking in a little slide show here before I finish up the Long Beach quilt posting. This collection of quilts belongs to Claire McKarns, who has been “collecting, buying and seeling antique…
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Long Beach, Part 3
Let’s see if I can roll these out for you. I’m watching the Closing Ceremonies of the Olympics and all this music has me typing quickly. Karen Eckmeier’s quilt, Aegean Memories, was a masterpiece…
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Summer’s Fading Fast
I read a post from someone in the Midwest this morning, and the blogger said she could start to feel the turn in the air, that telltale sign that summer was fading and fall…
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Long Beach, part 2
Leaving behind the Twelve by Twelve exhibit, IQA has a several other mini-shows within the big show. There was a general quilt section, some small created houses on a platform, SAQA, a series of…
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Long Beach Quilt Festival–Part I
Where have I been? Where all of you have been. Watching the Olympics. For those of us Stateside, “Happy and glorious” is a phrase from the British National Anthem, “God Save the Queen [King]”…
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Summer Fun and a Tote Bag
Many thanks to Lee of Freshly Pieced Fabrics for hosting this WIP Wednesday. Click to return to her blog and see others who are staying out of the pool on occasion, and getting some…
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Long Beach Quilt Festival, classes
I still have a bag or two to unpack, but I wanted to post about my days at International Quilt Association’s (IQA) Quilt Festival at Long Beach. I went two years ago, when the…
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Village Houses: Joybells Ring in Heaven’s Street
When I was at our sewing group, Lisa brought out her “house” quilt, the earliest group quilt that we’d attempted together. You saw hers. Here’s mine: Quilt #28 We had the common fabrics to…
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Long Beach Quilt Festival: Getting Ready
I believe in taking classes, when they interest you or teach you a new skill. I’m headed to the Long Beach International Quilt Festival (or LB-QuiltCon, as I like to call it) and I’m…
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Working in a Series
I think part of my discouragement this week was fatigue. I’m working a stack of Kaffe Fassett fabrics. There’s probably 40 to 50 different fabrics that I’ve collected over the years, and in this…
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Better Than Chocolate
You are all better than chocolate. You are all better than giving in to discouragement. In other words, you are all good company through the Quilt Swamp, and I was gratified and encouraged by…
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Lollypop Block Quilt Swamp
Existential Crisis this morning. I don’t know how you choose what you’ll make for a quilt, whether it be the fabric pulls you in, or you see a design on someone’s blog or in…
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Back into the Lollypop Forest
Yep, the mess is back in my sewing studio. This is block number six. After this one, I’m halfway. Putting down the big petals and leaves is fun and goes quickly, and then it’s…
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Heart Houses–Far Flung Bee
Krista received her Far Flung Bee Blocks, so now I can write about them. Like a pregnancy, I figure it’s not my news to tell, so I like to let them do the Woo-hoo!…
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Good Heart Quilters — Summer Fun Day
I’m leading with this shot of a houses quilt, because this was the very first project our group, the Good Heart Quilters, had ever done together. I designed all the houses on my QuiltPro…
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