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Time to Go Home
When I start finding lots of images that could be turned into quilts (like the ones below), and. . . . . . when I start buying souvenirs like the ones below. . .…
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The Done Manifesto–FSF
Since, during summer, Friday is my FSF–Finishing School Friday, I thought I’d mention this idea of the Done Manifesto, created when “Bre Pettis, an inventor, and collaborator Kio Stark gave themselves exactly 20 minutes…
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Is Pinterest in Our Best Interest?
The recent brouhaha about Pinterest, a current addiction and tool, and its copyright issues, the internet and blogging made me confront some interesting and sometimes painful realities. I love the internet, but I must…
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WIP–Roses and Doll Quilts
I brought along my third block of the rose window block series — still working on it — but I think a friend of mine wants to try doing this too, as she’s a…
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Spring Break/Mind Break
I took off for Spring Break early. My colleague and friend Judy is covering my class and after class on Monday, we high-tailed it out of town. When you see the above photo, you…
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Comments, Blogger, Frustration
For some reason, Blogger has been playing with me. Not my blogger–YOUR Blogger. Which means that I’ve not been able to leave comments unless someone had enabled the new blogger (a confusing mess if…
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Roses Bloom on a Wednesday
Last week we were all hosting the Leap Day Thread Giveaway, but today I’m back in the saddle with those Works–in–Progress (WIPs) and linking up to Freshly Pieced. Thanks, Lee, for hosting us all!…
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Spring Shop Hop
What do you call a quilter who visits eight quilt shops and one Mexican restaurant on one day? Tired, but happy. Our local shops (I live inland from Los Angeles) got together for a…
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Winners! of Superior Thread Leap Day Giveaway
Many thanks to all who entered the thread giveaway. All of the names are listed below–you guys are pretty amazing. I’m going to suggest to Superior that if they ever need a thread color…
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Leap Day Superior Thread Giveaway
The lovely lady leaping is not me (aw, shucks), but is Allessandra Hamlin, from a websearch. Today is the long-awaited Leap Day Superior Threads Giveaway! Ten of us have joined together in this endeavor. …
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Scrappy Star, part II
This is a continuation of Monday’s post, where I began showing you how I put together these scrappy star blocks. Head to yesterday to download a PDF file of my paper piecing template. But…
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Scrappy Star, part I
I’ve been diving into scraps this week, as I had a couple of days all to myself. Inspired by a quilt I saw in the Scrap Attack Flickr group, a scrappy star by Svetlana…
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Be My Valentine
Okay, I know I’m late. Late for Valentine’s Day. But better late than never, right? Another entry into Friday Finishing School. In fact, today I have two! I finished sewing down the binding on…
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Scraps Into LOVE
This challenge of Rachel’s is looming in my mind, now that I’m past the red/white quilt, and feeling like life has resumed its rhythm. She has a terrific Flickr group, and I spent some…
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English Paper Piecing, continued
I’m leading with the same photo I did yesterday, the very first English Paper Piecing Block (EPP) I’ve ever done. But here’s the beginning of my work in progress: block two, all looking like…
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EPP: A Shared Gift
Because I am a complete quilt dork, loving nearly all things quilting, I love looking at my very first completed English Paper Piecing (EPP) block. I love how I can use the fabric to…
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(Presidents) Day in LA
My mother often says, “A change is as good as a rest,” meaning sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something different — a change — does a body good. So we…
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Bits & Pieces
WIP Wednesday–here we are again. This is a good mid-weekly progress check every week, and many thanks to Lee of Freshly Pieced for hosting us all. Well, I met a goal. For two months,…
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EPP–Rose Window Block
It’s all Krista’s fault. I’ve been seeing her English Paper Piecing for weeks now, and have really admired them. But hey folks, is there anyone else out there with too many unfinished projects? And…
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At the End of a Day
Sometimes at the end of a day, I like nothing to crawl in bed with a quilt book, and relax and think about different aspects of quilting. One that I’m working through now is …
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Quilts on the Bed
I started quilting my Valentine Quilt yesterday and it’s coming along. Marking it with pencil makes life a whole lot easier. But here’s two other quilts on the bed currently: the back of my…
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WIP–Valentine Quilt
Many thanks to Lee of Freshly Pieced Fabrics for hosting this Works In Progress posting frenzy, commonly known as WIP Wednesday. So last week I was unpicking this quilt. The thread was too skinny…
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Road to California–In Perfect Harmony
I’d Like to Teach the World the Quilt in Perfect Harmony Bert Garino, Florida Before I get to the wonderful quilt above, made by a friend of mine, I’ve had some interesting responses on…
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Road to California, 2102–part 4
Sorry about finishing up the last Road post so abruptly. I was headed out to have lunch with my son (a monthly event that had gotten sidetracked by my surgery) and to visit Purl…
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A Day in the Life of a Quilter
Unhappy Quilter: Unpicking quilt stitches Happy Quilter: Thinking about the rainbow pack of fat quarters from Purl Soho that I bought yesterday.
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Road to California–part 3
To start off this post, I thought the Baltimores would be a good thing, and since we already know from past posts that the person that hangs this show groups everything in a clump…
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Quilting Valentine Quilt
I listened to the Florida Primary Vote returns as I pinned this quilt together for quilting, my WIP for this week. I have two other quilts that bring up elections when I look at…
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