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Ladies of the Canon • Quilt Finish
I was in a quandary about what to name this quilt, having tried out multiple phrases. It was a quilt made up of blocks from my friends in The Gridster Bee, the penultimate year…
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A Pattern Language
“Every society which is alive and whole, will have its own unique and distinct pattern language; and further, that every individual in such a society will have a unique language, shared in part, but…
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This and That: October 2023
Of course I took my quilt titled Annularity up to the Annular Solar Eclipse, and took its photo while the eclipse was going on. And my new Eclipse quilt also got a photo. The…
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Eclipses: Aren’t we so lucky?
Way back in the darker ages, eclipses were thought to run the gamut of Should Never Be Looked At, to fear and terror. Nowadays, thanks to NASA and all the people like me who…
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This & That: Hiding Out
I think it started with the post-fun-trip dreck (laundry, cleaning out suitcase, realizing I couldn’t just walk out the door and play all day), then it morphed into I-got-an-RSV-vaccine blahs (a needed shot, as…
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Dumplings
Not *this* kind of dumpling!Yes, these are dumplings, but it’s not the kind I meant. However, if you want the recipe, I describe it here (but the NYTimes Cooking website is the original source).…
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Time Let Me Play • Quilt Finish 2023
Last night we had smoke from fires somewhere, but I never could figure out where. And so I gave up, because that’s what you do at the end of summer: you play it easy,…
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Eye Candy for the End of Summer
While the original version of the word meant light, frothy entertainment, this grouping of quilts was more serious, found in Primal Forces, an exhibit in the BYU Museum of Art. They were part of…
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Weather on my Mind
Hurricane Hilary is streaming towards us, so we spent most of Saturday morning doing something that East-Coasters have memorized: make sure we have water, food that can be prepped w/o power, and have sandbagged…
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Even Gritty People Get Discouraged
The title of this post comes from Angela Duckworth, the researcher famous for talking and writing about those who have what she calls “grit” — that innate quality that helps you to keep going.…
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Amarysso • Quilt Finish
I never hold my own quilts, preferring to be the one behind the camera, taking the shots. But we had a photo shoot for Amarysso, my latest finish, and we traded places. Here’s some…
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Temperatures are in the News!
Since it is not nice to be selfish, the West Coast and SouthWest are graciously sharing their high temperatures with the MidWest and East Coast. We are sorry. Climate Change is upon us all.…
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Messing Around *July 2023*
Literally. And that’s not an ironic use of that word. To see if I’ve made any progress, here’s an earlier shot from January 2020: I know it’s a little fuzzy, but the glump of…
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Crossroads
What is the difference between achievement and accomplishment? asked Adam Gopnick. That question has set me thinking about it ever since. We quilters work hard to get our quilts finished, our patches pieced and…
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Double Star • new pattern
Kolob Canyon. We were about mid-point in our drive from the Salt Lake City area to our home in Southern California, when we turned into the Kolob Canyon parking lot, in the upper section…
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JanFebMarAprMayJune 2023 This and That
Yeah, just lumping them all in here together, because I just can hardly remember the first six months of this year. I know I dropped a lot of balls: unfinished quilts, undusted corners, unsent…
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Community • Quilt Finish: North Country Patchwork
This is a quilter’s visual paradise: triangles, circles, squares, bits-and-pieces; it’s the Cosmati pavement in Westminster Cathedral, which got a lot of press recently with the coronation of King Charles. And this is an…
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Time Let Me Play
I was struck by the idea that: “…all thinking is an act of memory in some form. That includes imagination, creativity, innovation and other variations of ‘new’ thoughts. That means the components of the…
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Flashback
Occasionally I attempt to clean out my emailbox, which is a vain and futile attempt to generally keep my life organized. But in this round, I found several stacks of emails regarding Quilt Swaps,…
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Quilt Finish: Blossom and This & That for May 2023
I’ve been storing up some This-and-Thats, so buckle up, here we go. First up is a quilt finish. I started this in June of 2021, and finished it today. I was teaching classes about…
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Quilt Finishes, Kitchen Re-do, Watching a Plant Bloom
These strange looking almost-flowering buds belong to the Mother of Pearl plant. It’s also known as the Ghost plant, or Graptopetalum paraguayense. This is the mother ship of that spindly, tentative arm that is…
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Primula Ballerina • Quilt Finish
A hymn sung in our church begins with “Earth, with her ten-thousand flowers” and ends with the sentiment that all these things of nature “Have one chorus: God is love.” This was reinforced to…
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Garden Flower • Quilt Top Finish
Floods! Snow! Storms! Rain! More Rain! That old saying about April Showers really doesn’t apply to California, because for us it’s March showers bring April flowers, so yes, my garden is overflowing with flowers…
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Bright Ladies (Well Read) • Quilt Top Finish
There was a young lady named Bright,Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way,And returned home the previous night.(limerick by Arthur Henry Reginal Buller) Our high…
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Poppies!
Anne of Springleaf Studios recently wrote to me, including a photo of her poppy quilt: Anne is an amazing colorist; seeing her quilts is always a treat, as they are rich in color and…
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An Auspicious Anniversary
January 2020 • Road to California, where I showed Jen Kingwell my completed Small World Quilt February 2020, QuiltCon: Shown here finishing my first block in Yvonne’s class (QuiltingJetGirl) March 2020 • Quilt Guild…
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Quilt Baby Pictures
I ran across some quilt baby pictures the other day. And a tangent: Chaucer was on to something when he wrote “The life so short, the craft so long to learn.” I’ll explain, but…
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