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Thursday, April 03, 2008

Diversions

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I was having a real time staying in the studio today. Something that happened last night was distracting me, making it difficult to concent...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

No Turning Back

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Back to work today on my March Take It Further Challenge with a slightly clearer idea of how to proceed. I played around with paper, sketch...
Monday, March 31, 2008

Six Little Words

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Pat has tagged me for the six word memoir. Since this has turned into an office day with no studio progress to show, I thought this would ...
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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Limited Progress

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I didn't get as much done on my March Take It Further Challenge yesterday as I had hoped. Best laid plans and all. Half an hour shoveli...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Snow...again?

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Yes, folks, the daffodils got the memo about spring, but apparently the weather systems did not. Here are my stoic little daffodils, bravel...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Take It Further Challenge for March

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Yesterday saw me sewing the sleeve and inking the label info on my February Take It Further Challenge as well as hitting it with a lint brus...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Belated Happy Easter

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Look what the Easter bunny brought me - a niece and these beautiful tulips! Well, they are both beautiful, and as if you couldn't tell b...
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Friday, March 21, 2008

Thoughts about the Studio

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"Choosing the Colors" Charles Courtney Curran circa 1923 I noticed not long ago how very small my studio is. I don't know why...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Easter Just Around The Corner

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My surface design list was recently discussing cheesecloth as a resist, something new to me. Wouldn't you know I'd run across anothe...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

What do you do....

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...when you realize too late that you should have added a border? I may have been second guessing many things on my February Take It Further...
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Monday, March 17, 2008

Happy St Patrick's Day

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I'm purported to have some Irish blood in me, so I dutifully don something green on this holiday, make sure there's Guinness in the ...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

Minor changes

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I'm not keen on change. Once I have things set up the way I want them, I seldom want to fiddle with them. So when blogger announced thei...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Going in circles...

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...and that's a good thing. No matter how hard I try to foresee what will happen with each step of a quilt, invariably there will be som...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Moose Alert!

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I've seen plenty of footy prints and other signs that moose have been ambling about the property, but have failed to actual see any unti...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

In Praise of Subtle Sophistication

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"...classic Shaker furniture is typically mischaracterized as 'simple.' In fact, it is not simplicity that epitomizes the Shake...
Monday, March 10, 2008

Personal Aesthetics

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I've had to neglect my blogging a bit along with some studio time, (paperwork issues now blessedly resolved), and only now have somethin...
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Friday, March 07, 2008

Studio Garb

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What do you wear in the studio? Over the years, I've discovered that there are certain things that work better than others. For instance...
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Monday, March 03, 2008

The Weather Dog Says...

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That, of course, is a reference to a Rocky and Bullwinkle episode called The Weather Lady . We found we couldn't resist saying that when...
Saturday, March 01, 2008

Thank Goodness!

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Other signs of spring? I've spotted the High School track team running on the bike path...
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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Quilting Samples

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Quilting commenced on my Take It Further Challenge for February today. I don't always take the time to sandwich up a duplicate sample t...