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Triplet quilts update - HELP!
I have the quilting all finished. I have two of them labeled. I am racking my brain to find and settle on the third title, so I can sew it and send it! I have a whole mess of pictures and such, behind the cut. The one with fish is called "still waters run deep". The one with butterflies is called "The sky's the limit". Can you think of a name for ( Read more... ) -
The art of giving
In the last few months, something big happened in my life. I gave $500 to a total stranger. I forget exactly how I heard about her amazing project, but I believed in her cause and in her talent, and I wanted to support her. So I did. It was little at first, just the $25 I thought I could spare. But then I became increasingly invested in seeing ( Read more... ) -
Outsourcing our brains
Last Monday I had the pleasure of wandering around a huge old graveyard with my youngest sister-in-law. We saw lots of really neat stuff, but that's not the point of this post. The point of this post is that a sense of direction is something you can develop, like an eye for color or a sensitive pallet for flavors ( Read more... ) -
Pink-eye, I has it
I never realized how often I touch my face and eyes until the doctor said "Don't touch your face or eyes, wash your hands whenever you can, and get plenty of rest. You should be better by the week-end." Argh! Dumb viruses and their fancy-pantsy ooooo, I'm a virus! I get to just run my course in your immune system! La-la-la-de-da ( Read more... ) -
Time-line meme
15 years ago (1996), I ( Read more... ) -
A quick little quilt story
This is my young friend Gwen, holding the quilt we made Wednesday. Gwen is opticalbinary 's amazing daughter, so some of you already know all about her.
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Thank you, weather gods.
I have four quilts I'm working on that have deadlines of a month from today. Until yesterday, I couldn't stand working on them because it was over 80 degrees. Yesterday was rainy all day, and today was a cloudy 60. Pictures should be forthcoming, once I get a bit more done. -
Summer Scrap Challenge
My local quilt guild issued a scrap challenge in April. We each brought a brown paper lunch sack full of our scraps, and swapped them. We have until the annual picnic in July to finish a quilt using the scraps we received. Here's what I got:
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Green Star quilt
This is a project for a client. Her mother ("Bev") sewed the blocks and mostly set the rows together, and now Bev is too old to finish the work. It's based on an antique quilt Bev admired in 1985. I was able to match the creamy white from my stash of vintage white. Everything modern was far too blue. The stars are a lovely dark green, but the seem ( Read more... )
