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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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Heart’s Garden • Mystery QAL Part 3
This month is what I call a supporting month in the Heart’s Garden Mystery QAL. Of course you can figure out that flowers will be planted here next go-round, and so you’ll keep that…
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Appliqué
I just made a little video about machine appliqué that you can find on YouTube (click above image to watch). It’s not glamorous, I’m not an expert, but most of the important technique about…
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Adding To Do Items onto a To Do List
So many organizational systems do not account for a trip to the fabric store, where immediately I have to reshuffle, re-prioritize not only my To Do List, but also my sewing room. I have…
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Tannenbaum Top Finished!
Quilt Bio: Not Yet Named or Quilted or given a number in the Quilt IndexCurrent size is roughly 84″ x 95″Top only is completed; taking it to my quilter this week Anguish Level–Center: The…
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Heart’s Garden • Mystery QAL Part 2
Here we go again, this time for Part 2 of Heart’s Garden. How did I arrive at this design? I thought I was going to go for a whole quilt of EPP circles, yes…
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This and That • February 2022 • Sticky Issues
It’s February, so I’m leading with hearts…quilted hearts. My first finish for February, and it seems, like the whole of 2022. The sludge I’m walking through these days seems to be rather marshy and…
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Road to California • Part III (final)
Do I start with the stellar and then move to the sort of interesting? Or, do I lead with the one that everyone breezed through, and finish with the exhibit where everyone lingered? I’ll…
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Road to California 2022 • Part II
Road Two of Road to California Quilts. You may want to do this in two bites, but we still have Part III coming, focusing on some specialty exhibits (it’s shorter). Click on any image…
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Road to California 2022 • Part I
My friend Laurel and I headed up to Road to California 2022 Tuesday afternoon, one hour earlier than the “VIP” admissions. We know this show often has slow check-ins and we wanted to get…
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Heart’s Garden Sew-A-Long
I received a stack of fat eighths as a gift from my friend Sherri last fall, from her new line of Sincerely Yours, and the question of what to do with this yummy range…
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The History of Bees
Well, my bees, at least. I recently stepped down from leadership of the Gridsters Bee, but Melanie and Patti (listed alpha order) are the new leaders, and they let me tag along and help…
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