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Season of Hope
A little treasure of hope to start off your Christmas season, from a poem by Sarah Kay.
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Quilt Frolic is Almost to Her Party
Okay. As I bemoaned mentioned to Cindy, my Quilting Mojo has been in short supply lately, whether it be the rejection from Road or post-trip let-down or the stacks and stacks of grading that…
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Purl Soho
In New York City, everything is at they say it is. If they say it’s grand and wonderful and amazing, it is. (It is.) If they say to pronounce Houston, as in Houston Street,…
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No use wondering anymore
This was in my email box when I got home from New York City. In triplicate. Dear Elizabeth, Thank you for submitting your entry, Come A-Round, to be considered by the jury for the…
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A Little Reading, A Little Traveling
I ordered several books off of Amazon, and have been enjoying them a little each night. Here’s my latest two. I’m still paying homage to them for my Come A-Round quilt, which was their…
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Autumn Quilt
I just finished sewing this together, and smoothed back up on the wall to do the next step: audition borders. Those blocks have been orphaned on my wall for nearly a month now, so…
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Quilt Night for November 2011
Quilt Night was over at Jean’s house this month. And guess what? It was just Jean and I there–we chatted and visited, talked about how we met our husbands (we’re both in second marriages),…
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Wonky Log Cabin Christmas Blocks
After a week of home improvement and grading, I just had to break out and slice up some fabric. Turned out to be some Christmas fabrics I’d stashed in the Christmas Fabrics drawer (how…
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FSF–Halloween House
At long last. After the holiday. In time for next year: Binding on and stitched down. Label is coming. . . later. . .as are most things in my life right now. We’re in…
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Just Painting
I’ve not been quilting, because we’ve been painting the house. Back soon. Read more *here,* especially the wearying story of Choosing the Colors. Right now I’m working on the front door color and am…
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Flourish of Inspiration
I recently started reading blogs again after an interruption of our trip to Montreal, and enjoyed looking at everyone’s projects and writing. But I often wonder if by “enclosing” myself in this online community…
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Bloggers Quilt Festival-Fall 2011
All is Safely Gathered In Original Design When I was a young mother I moaned to MY mother about how I never got anything done. The laundry always piled up; sometimes as quickly I…
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FSF–Halloween House Quilt Top
I’m sliding this in here on a Friday night just so I could say I finished something quilty. Yep, it’s the Halloween House, all pinned up and ready for quilting, where I: 1) learned…
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Pins and Needles
I couldn’t stand it anymore. I had to look up my entries on Road’s entry page to see what was going on, and this was AFTER they’d extended the deadline by 10 days because…
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Halloween House Quilt Block
Finally getting back to these little houses, after being gone to Montreal for a few days, then stuck in the Grading Galaxy when I returned. I could make lists of the things I’m working…
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Light in the Crook of Shadows
Fall’s come to the bedroom. I like to change up the quilt at the bottom of my bed every once in a while away from the standard blue one-patch that usually resides there. And…
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Orvieto, Austria and Quilting Designs
I’ve been working on posting to our travel blog (The TraveledMind.com) some photos from a trip we took to Italy in 2007 (I know, I know). And given that my last post was about…
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Sol LeWitt
When I last visited my parents, I found my father’s Sol LeWitt catalogue and fell in love with his work. He had a long career of interesting art, and pioneered what’s called “wall art”…
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Fabric Hunting in Montreal
Some of you know I’ve been in Montreal with my husband, while he attended a scientific meeting. While there, I (of course) had to do some fabric hunting. I Googled “quilt shop.” Nothing, or…
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Mystery Fabric
I bought two fat quarters of this fabric at my local store in green and purple, and just my luck–no identifying words on the selvage. Anyone have any info about them?
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Silencing the Quilters
I showed this picture in the last post, of the books I’d picked up at a garage sale. The three smaller ones are interesting, and I’ve found a few new blocks to try sometime.…
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Garage Sale
My daughter and her children came last weekend, and then we had a big family party on Saturday. But early that morning, before we even had to wash off the patio chairs, Barbara (my…
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Everyday Use
I teach college English and currently we are studying short fiction. I had a nice moment the other day when my vocation interlocked with my avocation and I was able to talk about quilts…
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Quilt Night–Fright Night!
Leisa and I hosted Quilt Night again–a fairly regular first-Friday monthly event for our group. Tonight’s theme: Fright Night! and Leisa had some really fun treats and decorations, like witch’s shoes, caldrons, bubbling-over vases…
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Plugging Along
Plugging along? How did that phrase ever come to be in my vocabulary? But it suits perfectly what’s going on with my quilting right now. I’m making progress, but it should be measured in…
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Red/White Mini Quilt Show
After seeing the quilts along the streets of Temecula, I headed to the Temecula Quilt Company, a shop that specializes in reproduction fabrics, which lies about 4 miles inland from Old Town Temecula. As…
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Temecula Quilt Show, 2011
I woke up early, excited for my quilty day. I’m dividing this up into two posts. First up is the Temecula Quilt Show, out on the streets of this Western town. Tomorrow will be…
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