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A Long, Long Time Ago…
Cleaning up my quilting space is not my favourite task.. I find fabric I forgot I owned, and projects I started and abandoned. Here is one of those projects. Hmmm. Really not my colour or style, and yet… I can’t decide. Make more blocks and see where it leads? Try playing with this block and…
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Star Obsession!
I thought my obsession with tumbler blocks was a result of being isolated during COVID… maybe not! I now know if I love something I need to play with it, and take a deep dive making lots of variations to see what emerges. I had already started playing with the lonestar quilt design, inspired by…
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Playing with light and dark
I have been playing with Jen Kingwell’s Halo quilt pattern (her version, below).. this is a VERY scrappy quilt! I have been playing with placement of light and dark fabrics… I’m not sure what the final layout will be, but making these is a lot of fun. Half way through, aiming to make one block…
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Afraid of Being Judged?
It is always nerve-racking to have your work judged by others, so I thought I would share the judges comments from my recent entries at Festival of Quilts 2024 in Birmingham, England. Very fair, mostly positive.
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Meeting Kaffe at Festival of Quilts
What a whirlwind the past few months have been. I’ve been to 4 major quilt shows: QuiltCon in Raleigh, NC, H&H America in Chicago, Quilt Canada in Edmonton AB, and finally, Festival of Quilts in Birmingham UK. I did book signings at each of these, and met so many wonderful people. It is fun to…
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A New Obsession…
I admire lone star quilts, but have never been inspired to make one- too organized and symmetrical for me! Then I saw this quilt somewhere on the internet universe. It was made in the mid-1970s by Annie Bell Pettiway (1930-2003). Annie was part of the Gee’s Bend Collective, and her whole family made quilts to…
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