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Sunflower Block & Other Flowers!
This block, also known as Rolling Star (Brackman 3795) has several variations that are well-known. I’ve seen this block used in multiple quilts including mine, but what amazes me is how versatile it is…
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The 2022 Springville Art Museum Quilt Show
I was a judge this year for the Springville Art Museum Quilt Show, and while I can’t include all the quilts that were hung, I thought I would post up a few that were…
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Judging a Quilt Show • July 2022
It starts like this. Or this. Or really, it started with an email from the Quilt Show Committee asking me if I would consider judging one of my favorite small shows: the Springville Art…
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Elizabeth is away
I’m visiting Mom, among others I love. But I finished up Blooming, and my husband scouted out this fun mural for photographs (and held the quilt top). Whatever did we do without murals for…
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Blooming Scrap Quilt & Progress
But first, some fun photos arrived in my mailbox this week! Susan, of PatchworknPlay blog, and also found on Instagram posted this in her Instagram feed this week. I have always loved her colors…
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Queen Bee for Gridsters • July 2022
I’m Queen Bee! I’m Queen Bee! My month for choosing a block for the Gridster Bee is July 2022. I’ve been in love with this block for ages, even way back to the Flickr…
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New York Beauties, Block 4: Ocean Gleam
THIS IS AN UPDATE ON THE MAKING OF THIS BLOCK. JUMP BELOW TO THE FOUR SQUARES TOGETHER FOR THE EARLIER POST. The original post was published just about exactly two years ago, and I…
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Ruangrupa: Parallels to Quiltland
First this: And then this: Ruangrupa is an Indonesian Collective that “turns social experiences into art,” as Samantha Subramanian noted in a recent article in the New York Times. The name comes from two…
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New York Beauties Block 3: Radiate
Third Wednesday of June means the third block of New York Beauties, and since I love that orange band out there and it reminded me of the glory days of being a teenager and…
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Looking Out the Window
So often I spend days cramming it all in. I read Instagram, blogs, news, newspapers, and the sides of cereal boxes if there’s nothing else. I store up lists of patterns, of quilts to…
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New York Beauties Block 2: Cool Rays
Second Wednesday in June means the second block of my New York Beauties and since it has a lot of green in it, I went with Cool Rays. I used variegated greens from dark…
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This and That • June 2022
Solved! Remember this block? The one I did for our GridsterBee this year? And how I couldn’t remember where I’d seen it, nor could anyone I talked to, nor did Bren, the Queen Bee?…
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June Fun • Why not?
This is the final pillow of the series of twelve from Riley Blake and I was supposed to make it for June. Except I got sidetracked: I decided to make this instead. Much more…
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Heart’s Garden • Quilt Finish
This weighty world needs a tender, light touch this week, so I thought I’d finish up my Heart’s Garden with you today. Heart’s Garden in my garden, with the flowers of the silk oak…
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Eris • Quilt Finish
While this quilt is a representation of order, grace and creativity, it also borrows from the Greek Goddess, Eris. Read on.
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Heart’s Garden Mystery QAL • Part 5
Heart’s Garden57″ square• Quilt #264 Gardens can be mysterious. In our case we planted the melons and the round cucumbers and some nocturnal visitor came and dug it all up. Will those seeds pop…
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Happy Mother’s Day 2022
Well, Happy Mother’s Day a bit early, actually, as tomorrow we are headed to Los Angeles to celebrate my sister’s newest grandchild. We’ll probably wear masks. Our luncheon is outside. Life goes on. Mother’s…
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This and That • May 2022
I so appreciate you all: thank you, thank you! I was able to pass on the info to WordPress, my blog software company, a reliable source for writing these past fifteen years and three…
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Polish Pavilion: Something fun for a Wednesday
The Venice Biennale, the art or architecture exhibit in Italy, is shown every other year and it just opened. So all the art world has pictures everywhere about what is being shown and who…
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Evergreen, EverLife • Quilt Finish 2022
Evergreen, EverLife • Quilt #26387″ wide x 98″ high Center Tree: Made from a kit. I started this in December 2019, sewing with friends. I changed up the background to something lighter. Three outer…
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Heart’s Garden Mystery • Part 4
The Heart’s Garden has been planted.It is filled with flowers of all colors, and in many sizes. The birds are nestled in, the outer border acting as a fence for the blossoms to climb.…
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This and That • April 2022
Yes, actually, I did have a March and I made these Gridster Bee blocks for Bren Moore. She had a hand-drawn sketch for us to use, and although I looked for it, couldn’t find…
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Bystander, Bifurcated: Home Again
Like my life recently, this is a bifurcated post. It has forked, diverged, split, branched, split, zig-zagged and divaricated. First a visual reminder: Notice anything on this Index in the Year 2022? Nope, me…
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The Tale of the Chess Bag
It all began when summer weather came early, and summer weather always calls for a summer purse. The Chess Bag was a kit I picked up at Road to California from a booth run…
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Confessions of a former FPP Hater
Newly arrived in a bee in 2013, this was my first attempt at foundation paper-piecing, or FPP for short. The Queen Bee had sent the fabric in graduated-sizes of strips; the cloth was finite…
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Writing Poetry
The famous and prolific writer Joyce Carol Oates was once asked, “What do you do when you finish a novel?” “I’m spent,” she said. “Can’t write another word of fiction. So I turn to…
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Teeny Quilt for St. Patrick’s Day
May your pockets be heavy, and your heart be light;May good luck pursue you each morning and night. And may you have a few a minutes to stitch yourself up a little Teeny Quilt…
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