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Happy Old Year Ending 2021
All the smartie pants people who Know Stuff say we’ll be shuffling through covid for quite some time, and that we just need to practice keeping going. So my usual at this time of…
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Merry Christmas 2021
There’s a great line that’s been rattling around in my head lately: “You know, I believe we have two lives. The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.” It’s…
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Pieced Quilter Ladies: Twelve Ladies Dancing
Aren’t these fun?? Here are my Lady Quilter Blocks, wonky, funny, off-kilter. My early quilter-self would have been aghast, but I love them all. One more is coming. I love the differences, the similarities,…
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Tannenbaum, in construction
Many years ago, my mother stayed up all night on the 24th of December, worried that the child she was carrying would actually come on the due date of Christmas Eve. Who would help…
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Autumn Leaves • PatternLite
Confession: I got caught up in Fall Color. A few particular trees in Southern California and even the leaves on my wisteria arbor are turning yellow, getting ready to drop. In addition, we put…
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Decorating Tannenbaum
In December 2019, in the Before Times, my friend Laurel and I got together and in two days of mad sewing finished this top . I hung it on a hanger, hoping to make…
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A Tiny Spritz of Elements • Quilt Finish • This and That: Nov 2021
A Tiny Spritz of Elements • Quilt #259 in my Quilt Index21″ square So my husband asked me if this was another pillow. He has a point, as that seems the size I can…
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Crossed Lillies, Riverside Sawtooth, and Halloween
Although the title has three subjects and in a particular order, I’m going to reverse them, starting now. We need a Halloween quilt and this one, made by Tracy Cox using my Sun and…
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Pumpkins • Quilt Finish
My first memory of a Halloween party was the time my brothers and sisters, parents and I all lived in an old home out in Sudbury, Massachusetts. It was rented to us by Longfellow’s…
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Mister Pumpkin
Sometimes I really don’t like our season-less world. I walked through Target last week, looking for some orange Halloween lights. Okay, I know some of you are laughing hysterically out there. Halloween Lights? They…
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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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