Month: September 2013
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Thirty mini compositions
For the last several years, I have been trying to work more improvisationally. After seventeen years of doing computer drafting as a job, I became very left-brained. I honestly wonder how I ever became an artist. Aren’t artists supposed to be right-brained? Naturally, I know that an artist can really be either right-brained or left-brained,…
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Push-up #5: Perseverance
Push-up #5 is complete! Finally! I’m calling Push-up #5 “Perseverance” because I kept having other things crop up that demanded my attention so I had to keep making new deadlines. I’m glad it’s finally done! Somehow I need to figure out a better way to balance all of my commitments so I can still have…
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Windblown is a Zoom Quilt
Cathy Geier of Patchworks that Praise tipped me off. Apparently Windblown is a Zoom Quilt on The Quilt Show. While I had never even heard of Zoom Quilts, it is pretty cool. When you got to their website (http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/zoom.php), you can move your cursor over the image and see a detailed close-up of the stitching.…
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Blue hardware
These made me absurdly happy today, so I thought I’d share them with you. I’m planning on making three or four special bags for carrying my quilts when I travel to teach workshops or speak at quilt guilds. As I was searching the internet for a source for the hooks and D-rings I need for…
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Reposting quilts from the Lost Quilt Come Home Page
Most of you are aware that I created and manage the Lost Quilt Come Home website. It is dedicated to displaying lost and stolen quilts and to providing information on protecting quilts. I also have a Lost Quilt Come Home Facebook page. Beginning September 16, I am going to use the Facebook page to re-post…
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Push-up #5: Getting closer
I’m getting a little closer. When I last posted about this quilt on September 8, I had big plans of working long hours this week. In the end, I had about an hour or so each day to work on this since Monday. With each strip I add, I put the entire thing back up…
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In Memory of…
Today our family remembers two very special people. My grandson, sweet little Amalya Nathaniel, was born and passed away on September 10, 2012. God used him in such amazing ways. We were blessed that he lived for one hour and twenty minutes, but he’ll be in our hearts forever. My quilt, Surrender, was made as…
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Push-up #5: Partial progress
Sometimes it helps to make a public commitment! After I finished putting myself on the spot in my post yesterday, I promptly went into my studio and sliced a couple chunks off of one of the pieced strips. I pieced several of them together with black strips between each one. (I love how vibrant colors…
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Push-up #5: Pushing forward
So these sections of pieced strips have been hanging on my design wall for a couple weeks now, mocking me, taunting me, begging me to get my head in gear and cut them to pieces. I ignored them this morning while I did a multitude of other small tasks, but no longer. I am announcing…