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Little Bits
#1 “Human beings are creatures made for joy. Against all evidence, we tell ourselves that grief and loneliness and despair are tragedies, unwelcome variations from the pleasure and calm and safety that in the…
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Happy Days and Giveaway
If I unrolled a jelly roll and placed the strips end to end, would I make it from my house to my friend Sherri’s house? Um, nope. There’s more to this story, but first,…
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This and That • Should have been September 2021
Everything I’ve done lately has been done lately. I did get this block made in September for Bette, and did send it off on time, but never posted about it, so here we are,…
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thirty-two years • Quilt Finish
thirty-two yearsquilt #257 • 34″ wide by 25″ high Guild Challenge: Use the Churn Dash block, but make it “modernish.” Reams have been written, umpteem digital slides have been presented over what “modern-ish” means.…
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To follow the notes of a disappearing bird
I work upstairs in a bedroom at the end of the house in what used to be my daughter’s room, before this penultimate child burst out into the world, leaving home at twenty, coming…
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Blossom Quilts • Santa Clarita Quilt Guild
I had a great visit to Santa Clarita Quilt Guild this past week, presenting a new lecture: Exploration Through Modern, Art and Traditional Quilts. I then taught a Workshop on 9-11 (!) using my…
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Summer Snowcone • Quilt Finish
It’s mostly photos, today. Enjoy! Summer Snowcone, variation of Sun and Sea PatternQuilt #25148″ wide x 56″ high Advent, previously shown but what a cool backdrop of flowers. It was in the women’s bathroom,…
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Last of Summer Daze • 2021
If you were a child in some parts of the county, you would recognize the significance of this week: it’s the last week before school starts. Of course, so many now start much earlier,…
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This and That • August 2021
Oh my goodness. The brain is fried, the eyeballs are smarting because of smoke in the air and it’s too hot to move or do anything which explains my SECOND round of August This…
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Wrapping Up the Leftovers • Affinity Tutorial
Do you ever finish a quilt, but not quite finish it? Like forget the label? Or find scraps that needed to be put away from a quilt that is two years old? Or do…
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Merry Christmas in August: Advent • Quilt Finish
AdventQuilt Number 256 • 35″ squareBlossom (pattern based on the Flowering Snowball block) I’m teaching the Blossom pattern in a Workshop for the Santa Clarita Quilt Guild this coming month, and in celebration of…
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I can hardly waits • This and That August 2021
I open the page in my calendar for the new month and write in family birthdays and decorate the squares with a looping border, even though all the people I celebrate live far away…
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Hanagasaku: Flowering Rings • Quilt Finish
Hanagasaku: Flowering RingsQuilt #25523″ square What’s that word that describes that feeling of when you finally get it, that gradual understanding, the skill opening up before you and the lights going on? We often…
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Finger Paints Quilt-A-Long • Painter’s Palette Solids
I saw this online and immediately jumped. This was one of my favorite quilts at QuiltConTogether, and yes–I’ll take one for myself. These two quilts, Finger Paints and Cindy’s Delta Breeze, are definitely cousin-quilts,…
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SeaDepths • Quilt Finish
SeaDepthsQuilt #25433″ squareMade from Azulejos Pattern Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits. (Jan Peacock) I love this variation…
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Color, Venice and Valentino • This and That July 2021
“Fashion is not ‘art’, because the latter is sufficient in itself while the former always has a purpose, a function, a use. Recognizing the differences is the first step to instructing mutual listening, made…
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Azulejos Pattern
There’s this interesting explanation in a Wrinkle in Time, or at least I remember it and hope it’s there, where the main character tries to help the children understand this concept of a shortcut…
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Keagan’s Quilt • Quilt Finish
The year 1666 was the first recorded use of the word “minimal.” That was also the year, according to the Merriam-Webster Time Traveller feature, where the word “pandemic” was first turned up. I looked…
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I Hear America Singing • Quilt Finish
Where does patriotism come from? The title for my quilt, “I Hear America Singing,” is from a poem by poet Walt Whitman. Today he might have been considered a type of patriotic American —…
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Abecedary • Late June 2021
A is for Abecedary, or a way of organizing this post. It’s also the name of my Lecture I present to Guilds, and I’m coming up on my last Abecedary of Quilts lecture next…
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The Flowering Snowball Block Grows Up
Now where were we? I think we left the Flowering Snowball block here: Don’t get me wrong…that was a good place to leave it, and I still might try to make this version of…
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Flowering Snowball Block • New PatternLite
One of the members of the Gridster Bee chose the Flowering Snowball for her block this month, and I was sort of: hmmm, nice block. But when I started playing around with the sewing…
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Sun and Sea • New Pattern
How long do you keep owing someone a favor? Do you give up after a month? A year?About FIVE years ago, Michael contacted me for a pattern for one of my quilts: an older…
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Quilt Finish: Blue and White Star for David
This quilt started on Zoom. Several weeks ago as our family was having their weekly Zoom get-together, my brother hinted (strongly) that he wouldn’t mind having one of my quilts, you know, in blues–lots…
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Is a Tablerunner a Quilt?
When you are stuck, it is. I love those houses, but…No. New favorite. I ordered two more yards. I love having scraps of batting that are just the right size. Letting us both rest…
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Bisa Butler • World of Color and Artistry
Bisa Butler recently mounted her first museum exhibition at the Art Institure of Chicago and “surmounted biases in the contemporary art world against both people of color and fiber arts” as Deborah Brehmer puts…
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This and That • May 2021
This has been a busy week, with zooming and teaching at the Orange Grove Quilters Guild, but I’ve managed a few things around the edges. This was April’s Gridster block, requested by Nancy. She…
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