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Read more: Then and Now
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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Read more: Keeping Busy in 2020
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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Read more: Printing on Silk Organza
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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Read more: Roofs completed
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…
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Read more: And now for something completely different..
And now for something completely different..
A member of York Heritage Quilters Guild recently showed a quilt that blew me away- it used a lot of Kaffe Fassett fabric (of which I have a LOT- the colours are stunning) and the pattern wonderful. Last week I was still thinking of it, so I ordered the pattern: “The Village” by Kim McLean…
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Read more: untitled post 1398
I realize that I never posted the completed quilt of Ortegia, Valerie Goodwin-style, so here it is. It is hard to see the details on the island itself because of the black background, but I am pretty happy with the final result, except for the white roads. I tried various paints for this feature, but…
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