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Love Two from Fret Not Yourself

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change, until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

~R. D. Laing

Quilting

The mockup should have helped... and it did in a way. The print/solid combinations are not what I might have chosen otherwise. But the final version is still a surprise. That L looks quite bold. White may be a mistake but I pushed on quilting it instead of ...

added by Ann 1 year ago. under adding words to quilts , bruce henderson , chinese coins , reading , scrap quilt , string quilt

Reprising LOVE from Fret Not Yourself

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quilting

Sewing a back for the Optical Illusion was the alleged task but all these scraps are scattered around my sewing area. Although I started to simply push them into the scrap bag, they insisted I pull out more material for a front instead.

I said I wouldn't repeat any words but Love is the greatest thing of all... and I wanted to make one with a different V. I'm truly running out of fabric (hooray!) but there are these two shot cottons that have been ...

added by Ann 1 year ago. under adding words to quilts , chinese coins , reading , scrap quilt , stacy schiff , string quilt

CAMP is a Baby Word from Fret Not Yourself

Convenience culture seduces us into imagining that we might find room for everything important by eliminating only life’s tedious tasks. But it’s a lie. You have to choose a few things, sacrifice everything else, and deal with the inevitable sense of loss that results.

~Oliver Burkeman in Four Thousand Weeks

Quilting

So many things have happened here. Many have been long expected though long delayed. At first I simply stopped blogging but still kept mindlessly sewing Coins in the evenings. They were a good way to meditate. I made more than I planned; the stack was enormous. Then ...

added by Ann 1 year, 11 months ago. under adding words to quilts , admiral william h mcraven , chinese coins , reading , scrap quilt , string quilt

A Hidden Message Baby Quilt from Fret Not Yourself

In stripping time of its illusions, in seeking to find out what is the heart of the day, we come to the quality of the moment, and drop the duration altogether. It is the depth at which we live and not at all the surface extension that imports.

~Emerson

Quilt

It's not a hidden message if you're a Razorback fan like my son. WPS stands for Woo Pig Sooie, the chant used by fans at sporting events. The original suggestion was WPS! but once I realized OOIE created its own quadrant, it made perfect sense to add that ...

added by Ann 2 years ago. under adding words to quilts , chinese coins , ibram kendi , reading , scrap quilt , string quil

A Baby Word for Arkansas Fans from Fret Not Yourself

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It’s doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

~Julia Child

Quilting

Of course a second Arkansas baby quilt is needed. Have you noticed how frequently friends do things together? From sports, to schools, to buying houses, and having babies. This is not exactly a word but it toots the University of Arkansas.

UARK baby quilt

The background fabric is Kona Snow and Red. Over the years I've found several pig fabrics of my own that have white backgrounds so they are in both white letters.

Details of ...

added by Ann 2 years, 1 month ago. under adding words to quilts , chinese coins , daniela lamas , reading , scrap quilt , string quilt

How is HOGS a Baby Word? from Fret Not Yourself

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

~Wayne Dyer

Quilting

Just one letter change and it’s a whole new quilt. This one for the baby of a University of Arkansas graduate {and friend of one son.} Lucky me. These are all easy letters so everything can be rotary cut.

Cardinal red and white are their colors and Razorback {feral hog} is their mascot. All of these were red and white fabrics but something ran in the wash. Funny how only a couple of the whites picked up a pink cast. I ...

added by Ann 2 years, 1 month ago. under adding words to quilts , chinese coins , jenny colgan , reading , robin sloan , scrap quilt , string quilt , susan wiggs

HUGS is a Baby Word from Fret Not Yourself

Remember that art is about being interested, not about being interesting.

~Julia Cameron

Quilting

Apple pie without some cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze. Although that saying was in my grandmother's Betty Crocker cookbook, I never put cheese on apple pie. However, my family never gives a kiss without a hug. How could I make a kiss quilt without a hugs one, too?

HUGS baby quilt

With my excellent analytical skills I chose to make quilts with difficult words first. Haha. The letters in this one are all vertical/horizontal. So much easier to sew than V ...

added by Ann 2 years, 2 months ago. under adding words to quilts , chinese coins , reading , scrap quilt , steven rowley , string quilt

KISS is a Baby Word from Fret Not Yourself

It is the cardinal difference between gift and commodity exchange that a gift established a feeling-bond between two people.

~Lewis Hyde

Quilting

Here's another word used for babies. Don't we all want to kiss and cuddle them!

While there's not much free time here, it soothes me to sew random strings together. Working a few minutes at a time, sometimes only a few minutes a week, I've finished a pile of string sets in a variety of colors. Making the letters takes more effort though. The K took some thought; it was made on New Year ...

added by Ann 2 years, 2 months ago. under adding words to quilts , chinese coins , dorothy gilman , reading , scrap quilt , string quilt

I Hope This is the Start of the Baby Words Series of Baby Quilts from Fret Not Yourself

Beginnings could happen more than once, or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing was carrying on as before.

~Rachel Joyce

Quilting

Since this is the third baby quilt with a four letter word, it must mean a new series has begun. The Coins will make words suitable for babies... even if they are FLWs {four-letter-words.} I wrote down several then used an online Scrabble dictionary to find others. {There were amazingly few appropriate ones in the that dictionary.} Now ideas come day and night.

My DIL highlighted the ones ...

added by Ann 2 years, 5 months ago. under adding words to quilts , becky chambers , chinese coins , reading , scrap quilt , string quilt

Dear is Another Baby Word from Fret Not Yourself

America is a nation peopled by the world. And we are all Americans.

~Ronald Takaki

Quilting

DEAR is another FLW {four letter word} we use for babies. You have to read line by line. If you read counterclockwise, it becomes DARE.

Dear baby quilt

The Coins are from the same set as LOVE but a couple of the backgrounds are different.

This time I wised up and arranged the letters A and R so they have no points. It's much easier to sew when those pesky points aren't in play. Haha. There's another FLW.

Detail of letter ...

added by Ann 2 years, 5 months ago. under adding words to quilts , chinese coins , jesse sutanto , reading , scrap quilt , string quilt

Love is a Baby Word from Fret Not Yourself

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

~Yogi Berra

Quilting

Events are superseding quilting. Even with so many calls on my time, I can't quit sewing completely. When I can't sleep, sewing Coins and string soothes me. Lots and lots of columns. Finally I wanted to put one together.

My original plan was to simply sew a Chinese Coin top but when the first columns fell perpendicularly, they brought letters to mind. That sparked the memory of a sign with VO on the first row and TE on the second ...

added by Ann 2 years, 6 months ago. under chinese coins , reading , scrap quilt , string quilt , susan elia macneil

Pulling Pastel Scraps from Fret Not Yourself

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

C. S. Lewis

Quilting

After a couple of years effort, my stash is much reduced. Years ago I had a single box of fabric for quilting and loved knowing where each fabric was purchased. But after the kids grew up, the stash quickly expanded until I had half a wall of stuff. Even though I sorted by color, I lost track of what was there. And sadly I couldn't remember where most of them were purchased. Now it's again easy to see what I ...

added by Ann 2 years, 6 months ago. under chinese coins , josephine tey , nicola upson , reading , string piecing

Rosie Lee Tompkins from Fret Not Yourself

"Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society."

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

We had a three month delay in paying taxes here in the US. The new deadline is July 15. Tomorrow.

Chinese Coins

With so many little projects around the house there wasn't much time for quilting this week. Someone asked how to decide on the widths of Chinese Coin columns recently and here's what I wrote:

1. I plan the overall size (LxW) of the finished quilt because it helps me determine when I have enough columns and when to stop sewing onto a column. Believe ...

added by Ann 3 years, 9 months ago. under chinese coins , improv , improv quilt , improvisational quilt , rosie lee tompkins

SLW is quilted from Fleur de Lis Quilts and Accessories

This quilt has been a worrisome thing. I've enjoyed the celebrations, but the fretting parts have not been fun. There's so much to it though, that I feel compelled to deal with the parts, good and bad.

The sun makes a stained glass illusion.

After the Sherry Lynn Wood workshop, I thought seriously of abandoning the chunks of fabric that I'd put together but guild sisters said to keep going. I decided to take it on as part of the Cotton Quilters "Finish on a UFO" challenge.

I like the purples, which may be blue in reality ...

added by Mary at Fleur de Lis Quilts 4 years ago. under #ahiq , #fleurdelisquilts , #marymarcottequilts , @fleurdelisquilts , ahiq , chinese coins , finished quilt tops , neutrals , quilting , works in progress , workshops

SLW quilt ~~ a finished top from Fleur de Lis Quilts and Accessories

I started this quilt in a Sherry Lynn Wood workshop back in November. Since it was a two day workshop, I brought home only the beginnings of something. I could not determine what that something was. Can you tell from this picture that I was not impressed? Thanks to my friend Glen of Quilts and Dogs for taking this shot when I was completely lost in my piece.

In January I challenged the Cotton Quilters' Guild to bring a difficult unfinished project to the next meeting. At that time we would each present the project and tell the group what ...

added by Mary at Fleur de Lis Quilts 4 years, 1 month ago. under #ahiq , #fleurdelisquilts , #marymarcottequilts , @fleurdelisquilts , ahiq , chinese coins , finished quilt tops , works in progress , workshops

Voila! I figured it out....happily! from Fleur de Lis Quilts and Accessories

Remember that I went to a Sherri Lynn Wood workshop some time ago?

As you can see from this photo, I was a bit discombobulated by my work. I kept at it, but while there was something I liked, there was more I didn't like. People kept telling me it was good. That was nice, honestly, but I have to be happy from the inside. So I decided to put the whole thing on the design wall when I got home.

On the design board waiting for a plan

There it stayed and stayed. Life kept getting between me ...

added by Mary at Fleur de Lis Quilts 4 years, 2 months ago. under #cqg , #fleurdelisquilts , #marymarcottequilts , @fleurdelisquilts , ahiq , block design , challenge , chinese coins , cotton quilters guild , improv , improvisation , wips , works in progress , workshops

The Rose Quilt is Finally Finished from Fret Not Yourself

"If you want to hear the sound of God's laughter, just tell Him your plans."

I like to pretend there aren't a bunch of quilt tops waiting to be quilted but cleaning the sewing room out brought them to the surface. No more kidding myself. One is the Rose quilt {last worked on September 2018. Yikes!} Why did this pretty quilt end up stuffed in a dark corner?

Truthfully FOMMWQ {fear of making a mistake while quilting} hit hard. Every idea became much too complicated. Despite my trepidation, the stems were easy - just some FMQ loops... until running ...

added by Ann 4 years, 5 months ago. under #ahiqchinesecoins , #ahiqflowers , book recommendation , chinese coins , crazy pieced roses

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