With three days to make it from Portland, Oregon to Los Angeles, California, I decided to take the long route. All the guys, friend and family alike, thought I should take I-5 all the way to L.A., but the girls all agreed: take the pretty route. The daughter and I headed west from my parents’ […]
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Sometimes I need a good swift kick in the pants and now seems to be one of those times. To be honest, I’ve had a somewhat rough go of it the last eight months, wondering just what the point was if I couldn’t have the things that made me happy. Then I saw this on
Don’t forget to take it outside tomorrow! June 15 is Quilt in Public Day in Europe, but there’s no reason not to celebrate stateside, as well. Join me in taking your stitches out in public. Quilt proud, quilt public! 🙂 Don’t forget to tag your pics on Instagram, Twitter and now on Facebook! #quiltinpublic
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If you live in the Portland/Vancouver area, I hope you can join me tomorrow night, June 7th, to sew-sew-sew for the orphans in Vietnam. I will be bringing along patterns for bucket hats for adults and toddlers, the lovely Popover Sundress (that’s the dresses they’re sporting so sweetly in the pic above), and some generic
So June 15 is Quilting in Public Day in the EU, but apparently the celebration hasn’t really crossed the pond yet. I’m thinking we need to bring it on over this year and I hope you’ll join me and take your quilt somewhere out in public to work on. I got an early start, working
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I’m a sucker for dresses and on most days you’ll find me in one. They hide a multitude of sins (I’m blaming you, M&Ms) and are just way comfier than a pair of jeans. So I’m always on the look-out for new patterns to try out. I stumbled onto this recently and held onto it
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I’m a sucker for dresses and on most days you’ll find me in one. They hide a multitude of sins (I’m blaming you, M&Ms) and are just way comfier than a pair of jeans. So I’m always on the look-out for new patterns to try out. I stumbled onto this recently and held onto it
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When I said that this would be my project for 2013, I thought I was overestimating, giving myself a little wiggle room. But I think that first guesstimate on the time it will take was right: all year. The stitches are a little wonky–both great-grandma’s piecing and my quilting–but with this project I don’t really
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Quilt Market was this past weekend and in case you’ve never heard of it (and I hadn’t until a couple years ago!), let me briefly explain: Twice yearly, the quilting industry gathers for a three-plus day convention to offer up a look at the new patterns, tools and fabrics. It’s for the trade, so it’s
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I’m slaving away at Quilt Market this weekend and already exhausted from just one day. Three more to go–how am I gonna make it?! Yesterday were the Schoolhouse sessions and my work put on seven of them. In a row. It was a bit of a madhouse with people rushing in and out at the
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