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June 28, 2022
Optical Illusion Quilt from Fret Not Yourself

Faith grows when faith is all that’s left. 
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Quilting

 
As I wrote a few weeks ago, this particular plan came from a talk Sarah Nishiura gave at the Iowa Quilt Museum. She didn't show her finished quilt - or at least I didn't see it. I assume she made one since she has a series of quilts with grid changes. In the talk, she gave general instructions to "make each row narrower" so that was what I did. {Well, I chickened out on the final row but went back and remade it.}

Optical Illusion baby quilt ...

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January 20, 2022
Goodbye to Dutchman's Puzzle from Fret Not Yourself

It is not happy people who are thankful. It is thankful people who are happy.
~unknown

Quilting


Things move in fits and starts here. A couple of events have been postponed so I may be out longer than I originally planned. As time permits I'll try to post here but still have the comments off. Sorry.

One of my great-aunts made this Dutchman's Puzzle quilt top. I always loved the Dutch blue polished cotton counterpane blocks and saw it every day because my mother used it as a table topper by the reading chair just outside my room ...

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