Rise Up
I’ve completed the fourth in my accidental series of protest quilts. This one is called “Rise Up” and it features a crazy pieced, then appliqued and stuffed, symbol representing woman.” This quilt is now available for sale in my Shop. What it Means to Me: One of the most heartening …
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On the Auction Block – Quilted Tea Cozy
Tea cozies frustrate me. Most require tying little strings or lifting the cozy off every time you pour so I designed a new one. No little strings, no need to pull it off, just Velcro® once and pour. The cozy is lined with batting and quilted to keep your tea …
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Spring Fling
Most of the quilts I work on are complicated and intricate; I like a good challenge. But, this past weekend I went away for my guild’s Spring Fling, 3 days of basically non-stop sewing near Lake Winnipesaukee, NH. For that kind of event, I leave the complicated projects behind and …
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Creative Play Newsletter (Vol.1: Issue 9) – Play Time
What is Creative Play and why do I keep talking about it? Well, I keep talking about it because after many, many years of fighting it, I have finally realized how very important it is. I stopped playing at about oh, two years of age. That’s probably a bit of …
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Creative Play Date
Happy Valentine’s Day! It’s also Creative Play Date Day. I’m not feeling very creative today because I am still getting over the plague that my daughter brought home from school so I decided I would just play today. For me that means working on personal quilts rather than professional ones, …
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Welcome Mat, 2017
The Muse seems to be stuck on political work lately. This new piece is no different. This piece is entitled “Welcome Mat” and it is roughly the size of one at 20″ x 30.” I used fusible, raw edge applique to add the Arabic letters, which say “Ahlan wa Sahlan,” …
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Groundhog Day Do Over
Do you remember the movie “Groundhog Day”? Bill Murray had to keep doing his day over again and that inspired me to write this post today. If I had a quilting do over, what would I do? It was easy to pick a quilt because I am currently doing it …
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Two Rows of Names
I’ve been working steadily this week on my “Victims” quilt (which may explain why I am in such a mood of melancholy). I now have two rows completed to share. When it’s done, the quilt will be about as long as it is wide now.
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Design Wall Tuesday in Provence
Here’s what’s on my design wall today: Is it a little busy? Yes. Do I care? No. Why not? It’s for a back. It’s for the back of a quilt that I am making for myself. It’s going to be the back of The Quilt Show 2016 BOM that I …
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In Memory
Today is the fourth anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook elementary in Connecticut. I’m just full of good cheer, right? I hadn’t realized how devastatingly close the shooting was to Christmas and Hanukkah until the other day when I was double checking my list of names for the Victims …
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