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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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Commerce, Downtown LA-style
Between Ssexxy Accessory and TU-TU fashion, I knew I’d arrived in the garment district of LA. Unlike how I imagine NYCity’s district, with racks of clothes being pushed around by runners between showrooms and…
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How I’m Spending My Summer Vacation
Some have asked what I’ve been doing lately. First, I did all those things I left undone during the last two semesters of teaching school, even finding some un-read Christmas cards in the basket…
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Life’s Pretty Fragile
Several years ago my husband and I took a year’s sabbatical to live in Alexandria, Virginia, while he worked at the Dept. of State. While he worked, I tried to revise my grad school…
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Blessing Dress for my Granddaughter
I made this dress for my daughter’s blessing many years ago. She asked me to get it ready for this child’s blessing. It had aged some, with the lace turning creamy, and Barbara asked…
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TED: Laws of Simplicity
While watching a series of TED talks, I happened on John Maeda’s talk, which led me to The Laws of Simplicity (LOS), which led me to Todoist, which led me to Jerry Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret.…
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Catrina, Day of the Dead Quilt • 2008
My apologies if this should arrive in your mailbox; I’m fixing up old posts and I never know what they are going to do! I was in a Black-and-White challenge for my guild back…
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Cowboy Quilt
Last Saturday I spent the day setting these blocks with sashing, putting borders on. The fabric has a cowboy print, so I call it the Cowboy Quilt (real original). Saturday night I spent the…
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Road to California 2008
I was bedazzled by the quilts, the shopping, and low on energy this year, so I apologize–I didn’t write down the makers of the quilts. None of these are mine, and some may be…
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Data Broken Free from Organization
Organization or, rather, lack of it, is the key: David Weinberger insists that “we have to get rid of the idea that there’s a best way of organizing the world.” Building on his earlier…
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Be Happy
Be Very HappyMontalcino, ItalyJune 2007 “The world is this way, we wish the world were that way, and our experience of the world—how we see it, remember it, and imagine it—is a mixture of…
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