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Selvages
I did some recreational shopping last week when my husband was out of town. It was after grading/prepping for hours and hours and I just sat and enjoyed looking at all the fabrics at…
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Christmas Star Quilt Binding is On
Finished! Every six months our church has a conference they broadcast over the internet, and I take time to sit and ponder and listen, but I’m better off if I keep my hands busy…
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Hide and Seek
Right now I’m playing hide and seek with my brain. Like, where is it? That was triggered by a hide and seek game for the fabrics which I need so I can make binding…
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A Visit to Mt. Vernon Quilters Guild
I’m out on the East Coast and one morning. This past Tuesday, I met Rhonda, a friend and quilter from the DC area, for brunch. Afterwards we headed down to my old quilt guild…
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Am I Crazy?
The Material Obsession Quilt Shop in Australia just announced they are putting together a new Block of the Month group for Lollipop Trees, a fabulous applique quilt by Kim McClean. I sent this picture…
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Love Dances on the Green
Today, after baking three loaves of banana nut bread, and two loaves of zucchini-cranberry-nut bread, I sat down and finished stitching the binding on this green quilt. So that’s two done, in between everything…
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Blues on the Bed
There’s something to be said for old movies. I watched Dead Reckoning with Humphrey Bogart this afternoon and finished getting the binding on. That quilt is now sitting on the end of my bed.…
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Binding, Finally
I spent most of the day Thursday hitting the books, grading papers, logging in their grades online. Friday, I taught, smelled a gas leak (called The Gas Company), taught, reported that our phone wasn’t…
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Quilts with Attitude
“Does Not Compute,” by Boo Davis I was doing the mind-numbing thing of sitting at the computer, surfing along after another long week in the classroom. I stumbled onto a slide show in the…
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Why I Have a Quilt Next to My Schoolbooks
It’s to remind me that once–before I was writing syllabi and course calendars and reading student emails too early in the morning–I had a life as a quilter. I reach out and touch this…
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Thimbles and Threads–Draper, Utah
One of the fun things about being a quilter is knowing that just about wherever you go, you can find a new quilt shop to explore. Since this last trip to Utah was mainly…
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Long Beach Quilt Show–New Quilts
First the whine. Studio Art Quilters Association had a large medium number of studio artists exhibiting their work, but alas, no photographs. While I understand their need to “protect” their work from Evil Unscrupulous…
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Long Beach Quilt Show–Old Quilts
First up at the Long Beach Show is wait. Wait until the show opens. I’d gotten there about 45 minutes early, and was about 12 from the front. By the time the show opened…
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Mimi Kirchner’s Dolls
Sometimes when the creative juices have just run dry, or I can’t get to my own creating, I enjoy visiting the blogs of artists who are good at what they do (probably from long…
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Quilts Back from Cathy
Always a good day when I can pick up my quilts from Cathy, my quilter. She did a great job. Now on to the bindings!
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Sewing on the Edge
Front of French Pincushion I read a lot of blogs, but I do have my favorites. One of them is Cindy’s Live a Colorful Life, which is always enjoyable to read. She talked about…
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Quilts in Canada
I just returned from a trip to eastern Canada and I was interested in the amount of quilts and quilting that I noticed in Nova Scotia. On our way to the Anne of Green…
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Baby Anselmo #4 Quilt
My son and his wife are having their fourth child this October, and she just announced that it was a girl. So, I put together this quilt for them, just as I have for…
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Mini-quilts
I love this photo of the wall of mini-quilts from the book just out from Whip-Up, apparently full of great ideas for mini-quilts. I have my own mini-quilt wall, but not all mine are…
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Hooray! Blues Top Completed
Here it is, hanging over our stair banister, all complete. Today’s task is to sew the backing (it’s the same fabric as the “fans” just up from the bottom on the very right) and…
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Blues, continued
Trying to keep the random effect in my quilt assembly, I laid out all my blue squares, and just sewed them together in strips of 4 squares or six squares, and laid them out…
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Sneak Peek
Working on something very pink, but it hasn’t arrived at its destination yet, so just a sneak peek. The bigger reveal will come in a couple of days. It did keep me busy for…
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Lyon Carolings Top Finished!
Here it is in all its unquilted glory. I’m really happy to be at this point. Of course, I can see about five design changes I’d make right now, but I’m not unpicking another…
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Shop-Hop, Miniature Style
Tracy and I headed out early this morning to have our own mini shop-hop, hitting a few stores that she knew about (she knows most all of the quilt shops around here). Click over…
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Provence, Blues and Sewing Machines
The French fabrics have arrived and they are beautiful. But yesterday’s work was cutting 250-plus 6″ blue squares (5 1/2″ finished). Of course, I was delayed in the forward progress by running off to…
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Blues for the Bedroom
So what am I working on while I let Provence stew a little while on the pin wall? The above photo is our bedroom, really the only room in the house that I consider…
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Still Working on the Provence Quilt
This could be the title for about the next million posts, I think. I pulled everything off but the center and some pieces around the edge. I talked with a couple of people I…
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