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Laying out the Week/Transit of Venus
One of the advantages of summer is a sense that there is All Possibility. Because the children are sprung from their desks for their summer break, there’s an exhalation of free-dom! We look forward…
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Gingham Quilt Top All Done!
I sewed steadily while listening to The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafron, a worldwide bestseller when it was released in 2001, and finished my gingham quilt top. At an especially gripping…
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WIP-Gingham Quilt
I spent the better part of the evening last night researching potential blocks for my gingham quilt–got to get that done so I can move on to other summer projects. Here’s a slideshow of…
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Summer Treat Block Tutorial
This is an OPQuilt Quick Quilt, as the block (even with unpicking my mistake) took me about 1 hour. But I sew quickly. Your actual time may vary. (Aren’t I supposed to say this…
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Cleaning Up the Study/Happy Memorial Day!
What my sewing study looked like at the end of the semester, after I’d posted grades. Way leads on to way. . . getting worse. Ahhhhh. Before I exploded the room, I was working…
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Finally, a Wednesday
Finally? Doesn’t Wednesday come around each week? Well, yes, but today was the day I gave my final, and I came right home and graded the essays. Then it’s stew over the grades, which…
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Bloggers’ Quilt Festival
A long long time ago, back when little girls wore Mary Jane shoes and babies wore white high-top leather lace-ups, and Easter hats were required when wearing dotted swiss voile dresses, there were four…
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Gingham Dresses
A few years ago, my granddaughter wore this Dorothy blue-gingham dress for trick-or-treating, a gift from her grandmother on the other side of the family (and a hand-me-down from her older sister). A classic.…
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WIP-Gone All Ginghamy
Many thanks to Lee, of Freshly Pieced, for hosting us on WIP Wednesdays. At least I HOPE she’s hosting us today, as I know she had plans to head to market. Be sure to…
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Gingham!
It all started when. . . I went to a gigantor garage sale and found boxes of fabric, and tons of gingham. Gingham? I hadn’t used or sewn with gingham for years. I sent…
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iPad Quilt Drawings
I’ve been quite curious to see if I could use any of the iPad’s apps to draw quilts, or even attempt to draw anything. I had fallen in love with the press for Pages,…
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Gardiner’s Quilt Shop
Several states away from Ginger’s Quilt Shoppe is Gardiner’s Quilt Shop. My mom and I went out one morning for some girls shopping, and after we did the errands she said she knew of…
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Ginger’s Quilt Shoppe
Ginger’s Quilt Shoppe is about 30 minutes from my house, and that’s the place I went to when I was agonizing over what to put in Scrappy Stars to finish it off. While I…
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Gingham on my Mind
Well, I have gingham on my mind, but other things too. Like these three grandsons of mine who showed up for the weekend. Like this stack of papers who arrived on Wednesday and are…
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Gingham Fabrics
I know Krista and I scored a bunch of vintage ginghams at a garage sale, but I was curious to see if I could still buy them commercially. Yep. JoAnn’s had them in the…
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Friday Finishing School–This and That
I’m almost done with the quilt blocks I’m not yet revealing, keeping it under wraps for a variety of reasons. Soon, soon. I have this tiny little window of quilting before the research papers…
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WIP Wednesday
I went to see my mother and father over the weekend, and it’s taken me until now to catch up. The visit was well worth it, however, as there’s always something interesting and unique…
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Pieces to Scrappy Stars
I finished the first gift–a pillowcase for my son Chad who is always traveling. Because of the London Olympics this year, there is lots of fabric with British themes, and the whitish area has…
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WIP–Happy Birthday!
First off, let me say Happy Birthday to my son, Chad. He’s grown into quite the man, with a wife and boys of his own, but I still think back to the days when…
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Scrappy Stars Saga
So I left you all when I thought I had the answers to the Scrappy-Star-conundrum with the Japanese fabrics. Nope. Discouraged, I headed to a quilt shop, where guess what–out of all of the…
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Struggle
Three quotes for tonight, as I work on my quilt: When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling… But it happens very rarely; usually it’s agony… I go to…
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Half-Square Triangle Trick
So, I’m pinning along on Pinterest, chasing down Crossed Canoes, checking out boards (it’s the after-lunch slump) and found this tutorial for a new way to make half-square triangles. The drawback: all the outside…
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WIP–Still Those Scrappy Stars
They’re going to drive me crazy. Like Leila, who left me a comment, I could see that the greens read like a solid, which is what these stars needed. But after a visit here,…
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Journey to Japan
I appreciate all your comments and I like what you taught me. I learned that if I wanted something rich and visually multi-layered, the black background was the one to lean towards. And while…
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Quilt Scaffolding
Climbing up the Statue of Liberty one year, I was amazed to see all the scaffolding that held up Lady Liberty. Surprised even. I still think of that. One of my favorite Broadway shows…
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WIP–Stuck!
There’s this favorite cartoon of grad students everywhere by Matt Groenig. It was tacked up outside my husband’s office, courtesy of one of his grad students. But my favorite square was the one above:…
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Sewing Up A Storm (or a maybe a Breeze)
So why lead with this picture? Usually I put up a quilt (keep scrolling, they’re coming!), so you quilters all go ga-ga and quickly pin it into a file or a pinboard, and because,…
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