Maria Elkins

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  • Push-up #5: Perseverance

    Push-up #5: Perseverance

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    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…

  • Windblown is a Zoom Quilt

    Windblown is a Zoom Quilt

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    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.…

  • Push-up #5: Getting closer

    Push-up #5: Getting closer

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    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…

  • Twelve years

    Twelve years

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    No words are necessary.

  • Push-up #5: Partial progress

    Push-up #5: Partial progress

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    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…

  • Push-up #5: Pushing forward

    Push-up #5: Pushing forward

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    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…

  • Push-up #3: WIP

    Push-up #3: WIP

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    Stacy made a comment today and said she wished I had included work in progress photos of Push-up #3: Requisite Red. I totally forgot to include those! But I did take a few, so I thought I’d share them now. In this first picture you can see how I slapped my little Log Cabin seedlings…

  • Push-up 4: Untitled at present

    Push-up 4: Untitled at present

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    Saturday was a wonderful day because I had a good number of hours to work uninterrupted. Choosing the colors and stitching the strips are not tasks that are too difficult. My problem comes with the next stage: figuring out what to do with those strips. I pushed them around on my design wall for quite…

  • Where to go next?

    Where to go next?

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    With a bow to you red-lovers (you know who you are, Sharon!), after Push-up #3 I was ready to move to some colors I was a bit more comfortable with, without defaulting to blue, of course. I saw a cool photo of a weathered, wooden fence that had turned beautiful shades of gray, and along…

  • Push-up 3: Requisite Red

    Push-up 3: Requisite Red

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    July was a bust for me as far as getting much quilting done, but I’ve been diligently working on my next “push-up” for the last week or so. I’m a couple days late on my self-imposed deadline, but I’m finally done with Push-Up #3. I was a bit mystified about where to begin with this…