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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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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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