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The Ladies are Back: This & That February 2023
They’ve lain quietly in the quilt block graveyard since December 2021, and I’ve decided it’s time to resurrect them. I have combed the book I have by Freddy Moran — the designer of this…
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Quilt Finish: Chris’ Quilt
Make this snappy, I thought: no malingering or beating around the bush. You’ve got a birthday deadline. This is Chris’ quilt, quilt #283 in the Index, it’s roughly 60″ by 72″– tall enough for…
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Quilt Finish: Aerial Beacon
To get across great distances, way back in the day, early airplane pilots would focus on visual landmarks, or sometimes lit bonfires if they needed to find their way in the dark: “In February…
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Flame-out? or Creative Spark?
If you are anything like me, there are multiple ideas in your head, lurking in the fabric you’ve purchased, or photos on your phone of projects to make. And if you are really really…
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The Sublime and the Mundane
The Mundane That is, if making a Wild Geese quilt block can be considered mundane, which makes me think back to the Days of the Babies, when the only time I could find to…
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Happy New Year 2023
“Time is draining from the clock,” says 2022 and Mary Oliver. Your loss, my gain says 2023. And here we are again, in a quote/poetry slam. (Quoted works are at the end.) I made…
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Merry Christmas 2022
My annual Christmas post brings Alison Krauss and YoYoMa and one of my favorite Christmas Carols: The Wexford Carol (click to listen).
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Continuously Hung up In Bias (aka Failing Forward)
Not that kind of bias. I had to teach that subject when I was an English teacher, and it was a struggle getting the ideas of Preferences vs. Bias into college Freshmen Heads, as…
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Stella di Natale • Quilt Finish
I started this quilt as another class sample for the Triad Harmony quilt pattern. The name “Stella di Natale,” is my version of Star of Bethlehem, but it is also a cake and the…
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Earthly Goods
There are quilts in the post. I promise. But, first. I found this photo of my mother while I was hunting for something else. As most of you know, she passed away mid-November [obituary],…
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Butternut Crunch Toffee
My daughter Barbara, of SweetMacShop, recently held a class at a Cooking Store in Salt Lake City, teaching people how to make my Butternut Crunch Toffee recipe. Then she linked it on her Stories,…
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Her Day is Done
After 94 years, my mother went Home. I heeded all your messages and got in the car that afternoon. I made it in time to see her before she lapsed into unconsciousness, then, by…
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It Takes Time
It takes time to stare out the window at the welcomed rain, the summer dust washing off, leaving the leaves glistening. It takes time for my sister Susan to call all seven of us…
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And this week…
I don’t know…just working hard on a new pattern. Here I’m using the Curves Tool in Affinity Photo (Command + M) to lighten up the image. I think images look better in print if…
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Jingle Bells • Quilt Finish
We recently took a small road trip up to see the Bristlecone Pines in the White Mountains. Pine trees = Christmas, right? And while we were up there at 10,000 feet at the Ancient…
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This and That • October 2022
Yes, it does, but sometimes I forget and think that it’s the State-of-our-Nation or the News or my List-of-Things-To-Do, but really…we all know. This was the block for our Gridster Bee this month for…
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Autumn Leaves • Quilt Finish
“When all that cautions the eyes toward the imminentslide of autumn to arctic winds, the canopy of English elmand sycamore leaves like colored coins fall and widena hole letting more light spill in, heaven’s…
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Spiders, Quilty-Style • Free Pattern
Sometimes we know of a block that is a familiar patchwork pattern. Cindy of Liveacolorfullife and I chat back and forth occasionally and we happened to strike up a conversation about this Spider Web…
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Печворк Візерунки
aka Patchwork Patterns (in Ukranian). This search term showed up in my stats this past week, albeit in Russian (I translated it into Ukranian) and since I’m always interested in the world, I thought…
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Sunflowers for a Daughter-in-Law • Quilt Finish
Sunflowers for Kim, Quilt #268, 62″ square It takes a lot of steps to make a dance, a lot of pages to make a book and a lot of pieces to make a quilt.…
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Blossoming • Quilt Finish
Blossoming, Quilt #267 I got this back from the quilter, cut the binding, and in the last gloriously awful days of our heat wave, I sewed on the binding while listening to Hamnet, a…
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Too Hot to Think • Blockchain Quiltblock Freebie
It’s too hot to think, but here’s a fun sketch from a traditional block, originally called Boise (Brackman 2306). The periodical, Hearth and Home, which published this block, was in operation from 1885 to…
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Jack’s Chain Variations & AI Musings
Decided to pick this one up again. I don’t know why my mind will flit to an once-begun-left-unfinished quilt, but at least I am well ahead of Christmas. I chose the red Sassaman print…
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A Change of Place(mat)
So as I served up the bibimbap with bolgigi the other day, placing the bowl on the impossibly old placemats, I thought: it’s time for new placemats. When I went out looking, they either…
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Age of Subtraction
Many years ago, bricks used to be completely solid. Houses and buildings went up with solid bricks. But in 1927, Anna Wagner Keichline patented a brick known as the K-brick, which was hollow and…
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This and That • (July) & August 2022
Yes, I skipped July, but here we are for August! My fabric forest as Queen Bee: What a leafy wonderland! The small leaves at the top are their signature blocks. I’m leaving Gridster Bee,…
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Secret Garden • Quilt Finish
What is it about Kaffe Fassett fabrics that pulls us in? The rich hues and full range of shades? The interesting patterns, many from old wallpapers and fabrics? I have a couple of stacks…
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