tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37615472469924128372024-03-17T22:01:43.958-05:00Persnickety QuiltsDianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035433796631359696noreply@blogger.comBlogger187125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761547246992412837.post-43465702689690516082019-09-02T12:33:01.940-05:002024-03-17T18:31:01.298-05:00Preserving Summer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Summer is turning to fall overnight, but I'm just not ready for the change of seasons. We missed out on too many summer staples this year, including favorites like watermelon, sweetcorn, and homegrown tomatoes. Can you imagine summertime without them?</p><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What if I that sweetness and crunch and preserved it like pickles or jam? Dandelion Wine: This little quilt comes close. Its ripe berry reds, sunny yellows, fresh-from-the-garden calicoes, and crisp gingham checks really capture the essence of summer, don't you think?</p><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0uV-oj0v2cXk-H--s1IckCNBriG8XwoPqDDVwGmmOwqcNgX3PwAbQ8mYiILUmRlWkLqInxRs7KPmP8dTXyi1YR4x71SPSVfV1l43pjWCymhkZ-qnFzKU-SvB--x9QJQhC4UIwhAd6UuZaHU9ALcN-hv3gUhPQWEi94Ut5e7VwLfPmpuvit_ytJd7/s1280/P1020938.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1093" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0uV-oj0v2cXk-H--s1IckCNBriG8XwoPqDDVwGmmOwqcNgX3PwAbQ8mYiILUmRlWkLqInxRs7KPmP8dTXyi1YR4x71SPSVfV1l43pjWCymhkZ-qnFzKU-SvB--x9QJQhC4UIwhAd6UuZaHU9ALcN-hv3gUhPQWEi94Ut5e7VwLfPmpuvit_ytJd7/s320/P1020938.jpg" width="273" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">It's a project I set aside years ago once I gave up doing handwork, but after showing it to a friend, she offered to finish it for me. Thanks, Ruth!</p><div><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Hello everyone! How was your summer? Mine was filled with extraordinary moments shared with extraordinary friends, like</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Wanda Hanson of <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #d86218;"><a href="http://exuberantcolor.blogspot.com/" style="color: #d86218; font-weight: bold;">Exuberant Color</a></span><span style="color: #d86218;"> </span><span>who </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana";">surprised</span> me with one of her signature batik colorwash quilts. Read more about it <span style="caret-color: rgb(216, 98, 24);"><span style="color: #d86218;"><a href="https://exuberantcolor.blogspot.com/2018/02/secret-project.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a></span>.</span> </div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"></span>Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035433796631359696noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761547246992412837.post-34831646740781347312018-05-05T16:59:00.590-05:002023-09-04T19:56:07.890-05:00Spring At Last<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035433796631359696noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761547246992412837.post-6555491314229831932018-03-16T16:57:00.673-05:002024-01-29T14:36:07.079-06:00Midwinter Blues<div style="line-height: normal;">
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<div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Hello everyone. I had another birthday recently and with it came this </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;">beautiful quilt from </span><b style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://funwithbarbandmary.blogspot.com/search?q=teacup+quilting">Barb</a>. </b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;">You may recognize the pattern</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;"> as</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;"><b><a href="https://humblequilts.blogspot.com/2014/01/midwinter-blues-quiltalong-please-join.html">"Midwinter Blues"</a></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;">, designed by Lori DeJarnatt for her </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;">2014 Humble Quilts sew-along. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div>
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I've never seen such deep, saturated blues or "sharp" cheddars. <i>Double-click photos for more detail.</i></p></div></span></div><div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><div style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZVU9Y-CijGWsUqwNWeW_gEngUPELhdlYBLBjYuC6boXEPhsfPnIOwtmBdL4_2MNo6lcgiXKi4Q9L4-GgiO-BtgzYzGMAUuiWwQ-G45MuJFhD6D0CAYfRxQz1de2F322dKzC_tqjNuKC55kiKHHqrr2bSmADdZxaW1ThgjIZ1cUEix5lIq7sFqmE0T/s2048/IMG_4070.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZVU9Y-CijGWsUqwNWeW_gEngUPELhdlYBLBjYuC6boXEPhsfPnIOwtmBdL4_2MNo6lcgiXKi4Q9L4-GgiO-BtgzYzGMAUuiWwQ-G45MuJFhD6D0CAYfRxQz1de2F322dKzC_tqjNuKC55kiKHHqrr2bSmADdZxaW1ThgjIZ1cUEix5lIq7sFqmE0T/w400-h400/IMG_4070.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><i><br /></i></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All those patchwork points and angles could make for a busy quilt, but gentle curves of quilting help balance the visual energy.</p><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 19px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; min-height: 19px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8D4I9Jzva4ee88xHNf4AM17sqiy06RzhFr7KGVGQnrDiJpHdOu19tjh-Mb_4aznTDzgQML3sZu1Nt0R5xaArcTEks1LpxESMFI1wLKVn6sWPVaYwWCAA1ZK6m5oBELHT3vrJ6QU3q-X4UPyOdNCGdpmTyPKMr31Bfzvk17-j7IYp5geD3YxTz2-0W/s1600/DSC_0032.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1090" data-original-width="1600" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8D4I9Jzva4ee88xHNf4AM17sqiy06RzhFr7KGVGQnrDiJpHdOu19tjh-Mb_4aznTDzgQML3sZu1Nt0R5xaArcTEks1LpxESMFI1wLKVn6sWPVaYwWCAA1ZK6m5oBELHT3vrJ6QU3q-X4UPyOdNCGdpmTyPKMr31Bfzvk17-j7IYp5geD3YxTz2-0W/w400-h272/DSC_0032.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So does the silk thread used for machine quilting. 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By the day of the swap, three banquet tables overflowed with strips of every color and hue. We paraded around the room to the festive rhythm of “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWaymcVmJ-A" target="_blank">Macarena</a>,” snatching a strip from each table we passed. Between the music, laughter and fabric flying, we looked like a crazy conga line or raucous game of musical chairs. "Hey, Macarena!" </div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></div>
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After sorting and sewing our strips into strata (6 strip sets), we used this 45 Degree Kaleidoscope Wedge Ruler to cut the eight segments required for each block. </div>
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<p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Dear Barb,</i></p><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Your birthday quilt arrived and I wish you could see the ear to ear grin on my face. What a happy piece of patchwork to open on a gray February day!</i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p></div><div style="line-height: normal;">
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<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><i style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;">The beautiful bird toile on the back</i><i style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;"> makes an</i><i style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;"><i> </i><i>elegant</i></i><i style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;"> </i><i style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;">foil </i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>for</i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;"> the quirky conversation prints on the front</i><i style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;"> of the quilt</i><i style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px;">. Baseball players and baby faces--What fun!</i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: black; font-kerning: none;">I remember</span> visiting<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> my friend <a href="https://funwithbarbandmary.blogspot.com">Barb's</a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: black; font-kerning: none;"> sewing room many years ago and exploring a drawer full of miscellaneous quilt blocks. You know the type of thing--spare blocks, abandoned blocks or other bits & pieces left from previous quilt projects. What fun it would be, I thought, to arrange them like a puzzle into different quilt designs.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">I’m guessing Barb started with the vintage Shoo Fly block, then added Broken Dishes to continue the classic blue and brown color scheme. When the strip of Flying Geese was too long to fit, Barb simply lopped it off leaving a quirky little partial block behind.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Adding to its "make do"</span> charm is a backing pieced from three strips of chintz. It takes a keen eye to spot the seams. Can you find them? Barb also varied her binding just like a long-ago seamstress might had she run out of her intended fabric.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Lastly, a gentle tea bath gives the quilt its aged appearance. Don’t you just love that detail?</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Weeks before my birthday, I spotted a vintage bowl on Etsy. "That's just what I need," I told myself. "Wouldn't it look great filled with old buttons, sitting atop a scrappy quilt?"</p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUpKk7jhwVp_KqE133m6kg5buteAeo2S2CD416Am-wv-gpdju1Ir4RX_aqxciQjIK-HVMbXZ8Ve_fWy3fl_KSTL2g1jerI3F_pB9gv0OB5X2MPRmzNjjbM6i3-J1s7TNbUOfSm6ONCyGk1eB5XKX2Ec0dYa5Kke4pVBFx38z-y1yR7zLkmk-4Z2tvi/s1246/DSCN8089.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1246" data-original-width="1246" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUpKk7jhwVp_KqE133m6kg5buteAeo2S2CD416Am-wv-gpdju1Ir4RX_aqxciQjIK-HVMbXZ8Ve_fWy3fl_KSTL2g1jerI3F_pB9gv0OB5X2MPRmzNjjbM6i3-J1s7TNbUOfSm6ONCyGk1eB5XKX2Ec0dYa5Kke4pVBFx38z-y1yR7zLkmk-4Z2tvi/s320/DSCN8089.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">After Barb's quilt arrived, I raced back to Etsy to buy the bowl. Happy birthday to me!</p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Kz38eSQUF_mwkhbcOiEQA68308J9vuvR6vEZ_Evs521JpuyzgMxeScAx3IDdQqRfWRqng5ePoiIRSbUqw8LcXFYpfRYDELNnnj7AIegngpRtItp4_e0CVZJai-_ZhDTHQTgFzNo7uc8nb-sSWdoK-ut0uH2pHTbSO-ubnS55A41T8acCmeyo-UD3/s1280/DSCN8105%202.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Kz38eSQUF_mwkhbcOiEQA68308J9vuvR6vEZ_Evs521JpuyzgMxeScAx3IDdQqRfWRqng5ePoiIRSbUqw8LcXFYpfRYDELNnnj7AIegngpRtItp4_e0CVZJai-_ZhDTHQTgFzNo7uc8nb-sSWdoK-ut0uH2pHTbSO-ubnS55A41T8acCmeyo-UD3/w400-h266/DSCN8105%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">By the way, here are photos of Barb's actual "miscellaneous block" drawers. Do you see the allure? Wouldn't you love to reach right in there and rummage around? </span></div>
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<p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Hello everyone! The weather could not have been nicer today for a visit from my friend Terri. It was beautifully sunny and just warm enough to open the windows </p><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div>
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<br />Neither of us could recall the last time we spent together. Was it summer? Fall? At any rate, we talked nonstop over lunch and hardly got a bite in edgewise for all the catching up we had to do.</div><div style="color: #0b0b0c; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: #0b0b0c; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Before leaving, Terri offered to do a little something for me around the house. I knew she had cleaning in mind, butI had other plans. <span style="color: #0b0b0c; font-family: "verdana";">I asked if she'd arrange the </span><span style="color: #0c0c0e;">tulips</span><span style="color: #0b0b0c;"> she brought and pair them with a doll quilt in a small table-top display. </span><span style="color: black;">We settled on this <span style="caret-color: rgb(16, 19, 26); color: #10131a;">simple</span> nine-patch. It's nothing special, just a few random blocks swapped with friends... </span></p></div></div><div style="color: #0c0c0e; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="color: #0b0b0c; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><br /></span></div></div>
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<p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">to the heavy swag draperies of the Presidential Box, the similarities are striking.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></p></div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><i>"If you are a craftsman…only look at your tools, your needle, your thimble…your scales, your measures, and you will find this saying written on them… 'My dear, use me toward your neighbor, as you would want him to act towards you with that which is his.'" Martin Luther</i></div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">It's the work of my friend, Wanda Hanson, who's a prodigious quilt maker and genius when it comes to using color and design. She blends hundreds of fabrics from her extensive collection into extraordinary one-of-a-kind works of art. After seeing her latest <span style="color: #0000e9;"><a href="http://exuberantcolor.blogspot.com/p/colorwash-quilts.html"><b>colorwash quilts</b></a>,</span><b> </b>I knew one would look great in the sanctuary at Rejoice!</div><div style="color: #434343; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><br /></div>
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The first time I approached Wanda about making a banner, she declined. But at some point, my calling became her calling too. Eventually, she embraced the project as a creative challenge and opportunity to inspire others through her God-given skills.</div>
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It’s been a long, lazy, uneventful summer. I’ve been sleeping a lot, reading too little, not writing at all, and taking way too much comfort in my complacency. </div>
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I forgot that MS can pull the rug out from under me at a moment’s notice, which it did a couple weeks ago. I haven’t had an exacerbation in years, so didn’t recognize the symptoms of a flare-up (severe pain in hands, wrists, and arms), until my left hand (my only functional appendage) suddenly stopped working. That got my attention!</div>
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Three days in the hospital on IV steroids restored function to my left hand. I can scratch my nose now, give a feeble wave, feed myself finger foods, type o-n-e l-e-t-t-e-r a-t a t-i-m-e with a pointing device, use the TV remote, and even hold a cup of coffee, if I’m lucky enough to get one. </div>
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I've also been assigned a series of hand exercises to practice daily. Hopefully, they’ll make me strong enough to erase “complacency” from my vocabulary, and live each day with more purpose and intention.</div>
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The pattern is from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shackelford-Applique-Folded-Cutwork-Paperback/dp/B00SB1ND5E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423005556&sr=8-1&keywords=Applique+with+Folded+Cutwork+by+Anita+Shackelford"><span style="color: #0000e9;"><i>Applique with Folded Cutwork</i></span></a> by Anita Shackelford<i>. </i>My original plan was to make four different paper-cut designs from her book. Unfortunately, my hands gave out halfway through stitching the first one. Barb may not know this, but our friend Kathy Smith finished the applique for me. It's <i>her</i> perfect stitches that Barb so admired. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 18px;">Barb finished the block with </span><a href="https://www.generations-quilt-patterns.com/echo-quilting.html" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">echo quilting</a>,<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 18px;"> a traditional Hawaiian technique which outlines the applique design in concentric rows of stitching.</span><span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 18px;">Her use of silk thread adds a touch of elegance, don't you think? </span><br />
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Thank you, dear friend. As re-gifts go, this one's a keeper! XO<br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><p style="font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Hello everyone! Bet you didn’t expect to see me again, not after almost two year’s absence from Persnickety Quilts. I’m as surprised as you are. Once I lost my blogging mojo, I didn’t expect to get it back.</p>
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<p style="font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I hadn’t stopped creating all together--just changed my focus to a decades old project of collecting, restoring, and archiving family photos. While I was at it, I rejoined <span style="color: #0000e9; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://ancestry.com">ancestry.com</a></span> and developed several new branches of our family tree.</p><p style="font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A few friends have encouraged me to revive my blog and even offered to help. Since photos are my biggest hurdle, Linda will be taking pictures and Sherry will focus more on official quilt portraits. I'm so lucky to have their help and support!</p><p style="font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKA4ZwQKvnCGLszsB7kymtdpZdTkcLnPY7tqN2PRc-Np9hP_1cQ7PVhjR96JcxvrnGy2VZbJ2wzz-jaZ-ScJ_xWt6rrEosenWwbsdKYAu11vHmdbmYAUh528V5aA71TsV3a9qbE5GIpXI/s640/DSCN7550.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="436" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKA4ZwQKvnCGLszsB7kymtdpZdTkcLnPY7tqN2PRc-Np9hP_1cQ7PVhjR96JcxvrnGy2VZbJ2wzz-jaZ-ScJ_xWt6rrEosenWwbsdKYAu11vHmdbmYAUh528V5aA71TsV3a9qbE5GIpXI/s320/DSCN7550.jpg" /></a></div><p style="font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Most of all, I want to assuage any concerns about my health. I’m still here, not necessarily "kicking" but relieved to say my Multiple Sclerosis seems to have slowed its progression. As long as my left hand works, I can use the computer and reconnect with you!</p>
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<p style="font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It’s good to be back!</p><p style="font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It finally feels like Spring around here. Time to celebrate with </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">something fresh and new! Aussie quilter </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://marianedwardsdreamweaver.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Marian Edwards</a> </b>posted t</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">his little quilt on her </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">beautiful blog, a </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">must read </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for anyone interested in antique and reproduction quilts, especially of the small variety.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Marian designed </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">quilt </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with bits and pieces leftover from previous projects</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Hmm... I had some of the very same bits lying </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">around my own sewing room!</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">These particular bits were leftover from various classes I'd taught. By making class samples and demo blocks from the same style of fabric, it was easy to incorporate them into another project later on.</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div></div></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Kathy Smith used my pieces to create a miniature sampler style quilt. She brought new life to what certainly would have remained scraps if left in my care.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our grand kitty, Gandalf, laid claim to it just as we tried taking pictures. I love the way his tippy toes rest right at the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">edge of</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the quilt</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">. </span></div><div>
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035433796631359696noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761547246992412837.post-15240833664835564992013-03-06T09:31:00.274-06:002024-01-29T14:54:16.402-06:00Tickled Pink!<div><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What’s sweeter on a birthday than cake and ice cream? How about a doll quilt from my buddy <a href="https://funwithbarbandmary.blogspot.com/2013/02/log-cabin-littles.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Barb</a>! </p><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9mL0dqE1fiokJNXPgMVZX1gx15ou92r84fJagtv0P-4Pm0-23cfNYmoXnmQU43bn-92sLmdjCOrQ9z6zZPrqyx0uc2eOuXPNM2XinOW1Hj1KIkAyrwgF9QC2eSDeiNZqyCeaHq1-boooYRKuxOu5B1zDEmCo1cD5YRLc7uIVQ2btlMsuql0PBi9OL/s2048/DSCN7096.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="2048" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9mL0dqE1fiokJNXPgMVZX1gx15ou92r84fJagtv0P-4Pm0-23cfNYmoXnmQU43bn-92sLmdjCOrQ9z6zZPrqyx0uc2eOuXPNM2XinOW1Hj1KIkAyrwgF9QC2eSDeiNZqyCeaHq1-boooYRKuxOu5B1zDEmCo1cD5YRLc7uIVQ2btlMsuql0PBi9OL/w400-h275/DSCN7096.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I'm "tickled pink" with her Courthouse Steps Log Cabin. 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<p style="color: #0c0c0e; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But that's not all. There were birthday treats from other friends, too! Terri baked a tray of mini cupcakes that were moist, chocolatey, and way too easy to pop into my mouth whole. Linda brought lunch and pink peppermint ice cream for dessert. </p>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN">I began</span></span><span lang="EN"> by pulling fabrics from my scrap basket.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I'd </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">give them a casual trim with scissors and sort them into piles of light and dark strips. When there were enough pieces to run through the machine, I'd stitch them into "liberated" log cabin blocks. The beauty of w</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">orking </span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.craftsy.com/blog/2014/09/simple-scrap-quilts/">intuitively</a> </b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like this</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> is how relaxing it is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN">What started as mindless sewing, soon became a form of prayerful meditation. Snip, sort, sew. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Snip, sort, sew. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN">Gradually, the quiet focus and rhythmic hum of my machine </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">began</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN">to mend my broken heart. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN">I don't know how I'll feel about this quilt in the future. I like to think there's more healing in it than grief. Maybe I won't try to finish it -- just keep it for the next time I need some therapeutic sewing.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A package arrived on my doorstep,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wasn’t prepared for the color and texture that burst from the box as I opened a quilt from <b><a href="http://exuberantcolor.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Wanda Hanson.</a></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s a Streak of Lightning quilt, the latest of many<b> <a href="http://exuberantcolor.blogspot.com/2012/08/i-need-to-make-another-zig-zag.html" target="_blank">Zig Zag quilts</a> </b>Wanda has made. I’m crazy about this pattern and watched with interest as her project progressed, finally asking if the quilt was spoken for. It was not, and Wanda graciously gifted it to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The hand dyed fabrics sparkle and glow like stained glass and I just can’t decide which combination of vibrant colors is my favorite. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It covers me perfectly from nose to toes and is just wide enough to keep me warm without entangling my arms in extra quilt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whether I’m snuggled under the quilt or admiring it from across the room, those colorful zig zags make me smile. Thank you, Wanda, for a gift that warms both body and soul.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><strong><u>Details and Links</u></strong></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">~36” x 63”<br /><span lang="EN"></span>~<span lang="EN">Zig Zag quilt tutorial by <b><a href="http://therootconnection.blogspot.com/2012/07/painted-zigzag.html" target="_blank">Sujata Shah</a></b>, The Root Connection</span><br /><span lang="EN">~<span lang="EN">Hand dyed cotton fabrics by <b><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/vickiwelsh" target="_blank">Vicki Welsh</a></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><br /></span></span></span></span>Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035433796631359696noreply@blogger.com18