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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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Road to California–part 2
I’ve had some really good comments from readers about Road to California and it’s interesting how they parallel what I was hearing behind me and around me from the attendees: nice quilts, but I’ll…
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Valentine Quilt–Getting Unstuck
Tomorrow it will be one month since my surgery. In my dream last night I was clothed in a heavy coat, trying to get up into a tall vehicle, and unable to lift my…
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Valentine Quilt
More Road to California is coming–just had a lot of lesson prep to do–plus this little detour. This is a WIP post–Work In Progress post–hosted by Lee of Freshly Pieced Fabrics. Since having my…
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Road to California-I
I started going to this show about 20 years ago, give or take a year or two, when it started out across the street in the Marriott hotel, so I know its history. It…
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Road to California 2012–Preamble
Yessirree! Road to California welcomes you–with a typo. (Maybe only English teacher types would notice? Certainly the lady I showed at the official booth had no idea what was wrong with the sign, and…
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Doll Quilt
The girls watch a movie under their new quilt Last night I pulled out some Moda Candy Bar stacks, fed up as I was with convalescing. Sometimes you just have to sew something. I…
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Practical Applications of Quilting
Whenever my husband and I clean out the garage and are trying to put everything back, I can see where boxes will fit. . . and where they will not. My husband is a…
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New Year, New Look
I played around with some changes to the blog this morning, including a new header. I like it. Jump out of your readers to take a look. I looked at a lot of my…
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Quilt Ideas
Over at Stitched in Color, Rachel has declared a scrap manifesto: Use Them! I think that’s a brilliant idea; she’s culled a lot of ideas using scraps to make quilts and has a challenge…
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I Am A Work in Progress
I hardly know how to pick up a rotary cutter, let alone sew a seam, and find the new thing that I am capable of creating. I am a work in progress this year.…
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Happy New Year 2012: List of Plans
I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions. I figure if January was the only time I turned over a new leaf, I’d be in trouble. I like to think about things in a new way…
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Crazy Quilt, Crazy Life
“Crazy Quilt,” by Tess Taylor (picture of antique crazy quilt by Carolyn Aune) Our grandma taught her nine-patch, strip-piecing,how to measure, how a fabric falls. My sister heard her and came out a maker.She…
