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A Maker’s Gonna Make
A Month in Making: Messenger Bag with Reflective Material donated by Stephanie (Spontaneous Threads) and repurposed seatbelt closure-my design :: Linden Sweatshirt out of a vintage tablecloth ::...
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Two Friends – Two Bags
A couple of weeks ago I celebrated 1000 followers on Instagram by giving away a custom made bag of their liking to a follower and a friend they tagged. I picked by random two delightful and talented...
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A Collaboration On Friendship and Motherhood – Umbrella Prints Trimmings...
What started as a friendship in creativity and motherhood turned into a challenge to expand our horizons and spend some juicy time together. My friend Robin King (@r0bingail on instagram and Robin...
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Holy Cow, We Won?!
Robin and I are still riding the high of our unexpected win in the Open Category for the 2015 Umbrella Prints Trimmings Competition (Umbrella Prints: And the winners are ……). It is especially humbling...
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A Quilt Collaboration
Last winter here in Northern California we faced what they thought would be the “storm of a century”. Since we live on a piece of property with a lot of trees this typically means electricity going...
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More Makings
This last month has been surprisingly productive given the craziness of my work and family life. I think my creative life feeds on it a little bit though. The less time I have, the more ideas I come...
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Summertime
The summer sun shone round me The folded valley lay In a stream of sun and odor The sultry summer day. The tall trees stood in the sunlight As still as still could be But the deep grass sighed and...
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“All Things Being Equal” Quilt Complete
This weekend I finished my quilt tribute to the justice of marriage equality. For the backstory see my previous post here: All Things Being Equal | Entropy Always Wins. I used my Triangle in a...
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Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid – Bee Sewcial Theme for September
As many of you know I am in a unique Quilting Bee with some uber talented ladies. Each month, one of the ten members picks a color palette and a loose theme from which we all create blocks for a...
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Design Play
I’ve been perfecting my skills lately at the game “How Can I Make That Into A Bag/Quilt/Mini Art Piece.” Are you familiar with my favorite game? My Pieces and their sources of inspiration in picture...
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Sew Mama Sew and Art Show Details
Last month Kristin and Beth of Sew Mama Sew sweetly asked me to share details of a tile block I made up while creating this quilt top as a commission for one of my oldest friend’s. Go see their intro...
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An Invitation To Be Creative
What if someone told you that this month it was especially important to pull out all the stops and be really creative? Would you do things differently? Would this mission paralyze or feed you? Last...
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Slow Stitching
I am halfway into a month off of work and ironically as I rush around trying to fit the rest of life in I find myself more stressed then relaxed? That soooo is not what vacation is about right?...
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One Month
In two days I start back to work again after a month off. I have logged many hours doing continuing education for Dayjob, baked almost every variety of pumpkin muffin/scone/cookie you can imagine and...
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Quilting From Every Angle Blog Tour and Giveaway
Nancy Purvis ( owen’s olivia ) is a quilt designer and maker I have been following for awhile. Her designs speak to me. They are clean, modern, bold and interesting. The minute I knew she had a book...
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Paris
Every October I take a large chunk of vacation time to spend with my kids. Typically I also make a goal of independent study on some area I feel lacking. A couple years ago inspired by religious...
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Minimalism and Maximalism
What I have been up to of late: -“Queuing Theory” quilt. Quilted by Christine Perrigo (@ccpquilt on IG). It was inspired by a series of paintings by Mark Grotjahn called Dancing Butterflies. -Crazy...
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2016 :: Care More/Care Less
2015 has come to a screeching close leaving me breathless and a little bewildered. In effort to spend some concentrated time with my family I always work Dayjob a lot over the holidays. Now with...
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Opioids and Y-Seams
Last Year our county was awarded one of twelve grants by the California Opioid Safety Commission to help educate the public and medical community on the increasing use and danger of both prescription...
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Layers :: Bee Sewcial Theme for March
As a novice photographer, I have discovered that some of my favorite captured images have both an interesting foreground and background. Over the last several months I have been playing with the same...
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