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Saturday, February 27, 2021

Organizing Plan

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I ran into a bit of a visualizing problem after I got all the background strips for the Kaffe inspired baby quilt cut and started in on my s...
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Friday, February 19, 2021

How To Be a Good Fool

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Little interesting to show on the progress of my sewing project so I share with you a couple of non-textile endeavors, starting with this ur...
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Friday, February 12, 2021

And So It Begins

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You have an idea, you pick out a pattern, but the making of a quilt doesn't truly begin until you start pulling and auditioning fabric. ...
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Saturday, February 06, 2021

Charting

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The hand quilting continues at a slow but steady pace in a nothing-to-see-here fashion. I did finish quilting around motifs in the hooped ar...
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Saturday, January 30, 2021

Rhapsody

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Here's the next "finish" project, the one I alluded to as my next work-on-while-watching-the-news handwork. It was started in ...
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Sunday, January 24, 2021

On Being Creative

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Just ran across this short clip on being creative from an interview with cartoonist, musician and the first Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, ...
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Saturday, January 23, 2021

All Wrapped Up

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Literally and figuratively. Behold my first finish of the year, the mobius scarf I started knitting on Christmas Day. I found a particular d...
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Friday, January 15, 2021

A Project To Finish

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My goddaughter had her baby the day after Christmas so now I feel free to really get going on a quilt for the little boy named Jesse Charm (...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2021

What's The Word?

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  When I took a late stroll on New Year's eve, this quite amazing snowman was guarding the mail locker. What a fun surprise to end the y...
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Sunday, December 27, 2020

Don't Run . . .

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 . . . Nay, don't race . . . to the end of 2020. The week between Christmas Day and New Year's Day presents a unique opportunity if ...
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Thursday, December 24, 2020

Wishing You a Peaceful Holiday

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The few decorations have been put up . . . A small representation of my collection of Reed and Barton silver crosses twinkle in a row . . . ...
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Thursday, December 17, 2020

One More Thing

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Isn't there always one more thing when you think you're done with a quilt? For my Peace quilt, as I finished up stitching down the b...
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Friday, December 11, 2020

Hoping This Works

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So here was my thought. Fuse on the backing and leave enough extra beyond the edge of the quilt to turn that over the raw edge in a back to ...
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Wednesday, December 02, 2020

Where Solutions Come From

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  The Petulant Child has continued to procrastinate, but in a late night search through my fusibles drawer, I went one by one from most pref...
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Thursday, November 26, 2020

A Day For Thanks

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One of my sister-in-laws really enjoys decorating big for all holidays and fixing big family meals. My brother recently sent me a photo of s...
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Sunday, November 22, 2020

Squaring Up

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Like a petulant child unwilling to eat her vegetables or adhere to her bedtime, I've been avoiding the next step on the Peace quilt: tri...
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Saturday, November 14, 2020

Getting Comfortable With Layering

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Here's a little something I tried this week. My worktable is littered with leftovers from completed projects not worthy of being tossed ...
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Saturday, November 07, 2020

Still Drawing

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Once INKtober passed, I found myself automatically reaching for something to draw - the old establishing a habit thing apparently kicking in...
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Saturday, October 31, 2020

Wrapping Up #INKtober

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What can I say about my choice of theme for this year's #INKtober other than it didn't go as well as I thought it might? At the midw...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Peace Nearing the End

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I did the last of the quilting on the Peace quilt Friday, which left me with this tangle of tails to be pulled to the back. I got to it yest...
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