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UFO Inventories
Joanne Kerton of Canuck Quilter Designs (see her on Instagram) shows us some of her UFO inventory and why those pieces became UFOs. She has a lot of almost-done quilts. Maybe she needs a long-arm quilting friend to just get them done. But wait, who am I to talk? Sue Griffiths of Duck Creek Mountain…
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UFOs and Shopping
I have signed up to participate in Bobbi’s (theGeekyBobbin) UFOvember blog hop. Anyone who quilts will have UFOs in their house.. so what do other quilters do with them? There are lots of useful topics here.. from doing an inventory on your UFOs, getting back to them, re-working them, and when none of those help..…
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Then and Now
I have started posting a photo of one of my quilts every day on Facebook and Instagram. Whew! I didn’t realize how many I had made. When I was working in research, the lab was filled with graduate students and postdocs. When I began quilting, I decided to make a baby quilt for any lab…
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Keeping Busy in 2020
We quilters are very lucky people- we have everything we need to sustain us through months of staying home. Some of are finishing off UFOs, or starting new projects or busy making masks. Or sometimes all three! A while ago I started a project that I thought would be a great quilt book: making quilts…
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Printing on Silk Organza
As I move more deeply into making art quilts, I need to learn and try new techniques. One of the things I am interested in is transparency, so I tried printing an image onto silk organza. Here are my results- very pleased!! original image tape organza down so that it stays smooth and doesn’t move…
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Roofs completed
Working with these colourful fabrics certainly brightens my day! I made one appliqued block to prove to myself that this is doable. This quilt has so much applique in it that I should improve by the time I am done. Even cuter with chimneys added! And now I have built all the houses! Sadly, this…