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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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Kaffe Fassett Quilt
Finished the first batch of English papers, so could get back to the Kaffe Fassett quilt I’d been working on. Today, I attached the inner pink border, then the wide grey-blue jungle print that…
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Road to California, 2007
Last week I attended Road to California, a quilting conference with exhibits, vendors and classes. I took a class from Gabrielle Swain, an applique-er who uses paint crayons, and watercolor pencils to shade and…
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