Category: Experimental
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It’s just a piece of fabric
I decided I needed to put aside procrastination and try working on something. I took out the blue quilt top I started in a Nancy Crow workshop last May. This is the same quilt top I took out on February 1. Instead of being brave back then, I played the coward and worked on the…
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Working through it
I’ve been telling myself that I need to finish the various quilt tops that I started in the Nancy Crow workshops last year. The problem is, something is holding me back. Most likely fear. So, I’ve been procrastinating instead. The problem is that I’ve procrastinated so much (in the form of organizing obsessively) that now…
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Nancy Crow workshop: sets and variables, days 1 and 2
What? Another Nancy Crow workshop? Spend an entire week sitting in a barn in the middle of nowhere? I must be crazy! What am I doing in a workshop where I’m actually sewing seams? And I’m loving it, too. If someone is familiar with my quilts, inevitably they ask why I am taking these classes…
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Nancy Crow workshop: lines and curves, days 3, 4 and 5
We spent the better part of three days on our final, big project. We each made sixteen 20″ square quarter circles, which will eventually come together as an 80″ by 80″ quilt. Basically, we were supposed to take everything we learned and we could do anything we wanted with all that. She wanted us to…
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Nancy Crow workshop: lines and curves days 1 and 2
One thing I’ll say right up front: a Nancy Crow workshop certainly isn’t about sitting on the veranda with your feet up, enjoying the gentle breeze and chatting with your neighbor. Nancy doesn’t waste any time and she pushes you to work hard. I love that. Sweet hubby wasn’t able to come with me this…
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Nancy Crow workshop: strip-piecing days 3 through 5
On the third day of Nancy Crow’s Strip-Piecing and Restructuring workshop, we began a new assignment. We started sewing strip-pieced combinations designed to teach us about luminous colors. That is, glowing versus dull colors, or what I came to think of as “dead and alive colors.” We did some sections with bright versus dull colors,…
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10 things I learned from my dad this week
We just came back from visiting with my dad for a week. He has been suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease for four or five years now. He is living with my brother and sister-in-law who do an amazing job caring for him. It is exhausting, of course, especially since they both work full time. My hubby…
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Thank you for my daddy
I’m so thankful for my daddy. I love his easy-going nature and his sense of humor. He is incredibly generous and is a man of integrity. Before he developed Alzheimer’s, he had an amazing ability to add up long strings of numbers in his head and had a terrific memory. Even now he is typically…