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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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Sewing Machine Parts, Labeled
I couldn’t resist this photo, especially with the naming of the bobbin “arc reactor.” Having taught in various classes both in the community, for friends and at church, one of the dreaded experiences for…
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Blooming Quilt
After ignoring the quilt for a day or two, I reluctantly headed into my study to try and make sense of the mess I’ve made. First? Browse through quilt books. This is Balkan Puzzle…
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Quilt at the Cellular Level
The quilt is now at the cellular level, meaning that not only I have ripped the quilt into many blocks, I’ve now taken the blocks apart into their pieces. Daunting? Oh, yeah. Am I…
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Deconstructing
I made this quilt a couple of years ago, cutting and piecing all in a rush to get it done, working with my collection of fabrics from France. That was my self-imposed structure: only…
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Two Quilts (Well, maybe three)
I finished the green quilt top, stitched together the pieces for the back and it’s now at the quilter’s. I began this one–Christmas Star–last fall (November? October?) in a clear space in my schedule,…
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Skipping My Way to the End
I’m headed off to give my class their final exam. It’s the last day of class, and we’ll meet once more at their final exam time so the students can see their exams, check…
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Flying Baby
My friend Judy puts a poem up now and again on her blog. I read this on the Christian Science Monitor, and couldn’t resist following in her footsteps. Flying Baby A baby sits quietlyon…
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Things Remain Undone
On the way to meet my son Chad for lunch, I caught the last of an interview with Ian McEwan on the occasion of his new book, Solar, and heard Mr. McEwan read this…
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Visitors. . . and a Story
We had some visitors from out of town last week. It was my daughter Barbara and her three kids: Cute, Cute and Cute. And Cute. Did I mention that they were cute? All my…
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Road to California 2010
This was my tenth appearance at the Road to California Quilt Show, held in Ontario California. I have entered in the past, but haven’t since grad school, lacking either the time or the interest.…
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Pillowcases
I’ve been busy today. I made little treats for little people in my life for Valentine’s Day. If the rain lets up (yes, we’re still here and not washed away) I’ll trot over to…
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Christmas Star Quilt
I was ready for a new Christmas Quilt. So one day in October, when I had twenty minutes free of grading, I thought about what I wanted, and really really thought I could get…
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To Do List, November 20, 2009
Serious List of Get Things Done (take 3, 333, 234) Date: November 20, 2009 Dry and style hair (yes, it’s this bad that I have to write this on the list) Clean off computer…
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Piecing Equals Writing?
I’ve been working on this quilt for too long. I’m really tired of it, but I can’t stop now as I spent a gank of money on the fabric and don’t want to just…
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Last night Dave and I went to see the movie Julie and Julia. I’d read all the pre-event publicity–the interview in the NYTimes with Nora Ephron and the reporter making an apple tart, press…
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Is it This? Or That?
The zeitgeist in the online quilt world this past few weeks seems to be nine-patches framed by white sashing. So I made one myself. I finished the quilt top of the red, orange,…
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A Quilt, or Two
I couldn’t really talk about these before because they were both gifts. The one above was for my son and his wife. When I made the first round of HUGE quilts, they’d just gotten…
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