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Do you wonder if your patient enough to work on a quilt? To do hand sewing or hand applique? Do you hesitate to start because you don’t believe you’ll have the patience and endurance to keep at it? Believe me, I ain’t that patient, but ....

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Life should be fun – and if you love to quilt, it should be fun too. Or why Quilt?So I’m not going to get all in your face about getting those UFOs done. When I started this post I considered writing a post about how ....

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Let go of the rules and have some fun creating a funky table runner. Even if you aren’t into contemporary and modern quilts, I hope you’ll give this a try. After all, there’s a season for everything. A season for making those perfectly ordered quilts ....

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I had mentioned in my video that I was having issues with my sewing machine. I’ve since learned it was not the sewing machine but the fusible webbing. Some fusible webbing products tends to gum up the needle, which can make the machine skip stitches. ....

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What do you do when you have way too many things to do? What should you give up? Especially when doing one sacrifices the other, And to top it off, both are equally important to you. Take the 2021 UFO challenge. Now that I’ve completed ....

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Have you ever found yourself in a situation that your safety and well-being are at the kindness of complete strangers? If you think about it for even a second, it kind of scary, isn’t it? It happened to me back when I was a teenager. ....

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It takes patience to dig through that fabric stash to find just the right colors, doesn’t it? And if you do happen to come across that perfect, thank my lucky stars, piece of fabric. You just have to hope there’s enough for the block. Here’s ....

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Picking up the pieces of my March UFO reminded me of life. As a season ends, a new one begins. The transition isn’t always simple, but you can’t get from here to there without the process. With a quilt, it’s figuring out where you at, ....

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Trying to find the balance between having tons of time to finish a project and having almost none is difficult. Do you agree? When you have all the time in the world, it allows you to procrastinate. But once you’ve gone down that road, it’s ....

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I hope my procrastination ends up working for me. I created a plan, set my goals and deadlines. It looked so good on paper. And then I procrastinated, because in my mind I had PLENTY of time to get this project done. Now the deadline ....

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On January 27 I awoke with an idea for a mystic symbolic art generator. I immediately sketched copious notes and put out word I was looking for a coder to collaborate with. By some miracle, Atul Varma responded within an hour, which makes me believe this project really wants to exist.

My plans are vast and sprawling, so we’re starting simple. And by simple we mean bonkers:

Atul and I are on the same page regarding Free Software and Free Culture, so we’re both happy to share as we go along. You can generate your own strange images ...

One of my favorite memories of spending time with one of my brothers, I have three, as a young girl was sitting in the field in front of our house discussing space. This brother went on to become a bio-chemist and is now a professor. He had just introduced me to the concept of infinity… Continue reading Curiosity, Youtube & Asking Quora

What I discovered working on this quilt was getting it done, wasn’t as important as enjoying the process. (see the video at the end of the post for the making of this quilt) I started this cozy, cheerful quilt during the scrappy quilting adventure series ....

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Why not make 2021 a year to get that stuff done? Those UFOs. Pesky projects started, but for one reason or another, they ended up in some bin. Forgotten. Unfinished. Wasting Space. Don’t you think it’s time to get them out of the way? Out ....

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I recently had one of those odd dreams. But I like to think dreams have a message. And this one was telling me to live life in the Moment. The highlights I was with my husband and another couple with two kids. We were driving ....

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We spent Christmas Eve day with our daughter and her family in the Capital City. Lucy Ann was eager to take me upstairs to their finished, converted attic space which has become her (and her brother's) play room. They do allow their father a secluded corner of the space for his work-from-home office.

We spent Christmas Eve day with our daughter and her family in the Capital City. Lucy Ann was eager to take me upstairs to their finished, converted attic space which has become her (and her brother's) play room. They do allow their father a secluded corner of the space for his work-from-home office.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view. -Paul Klee, painter (18 Dec 1879-1940) 

So I’m part of Mt. Battie Modern Quilt Guild, one of two local groups. This chapter, part of the MQG (Modern Quilt Guild) is the smaller of the two and is almost completely comprised of members of Coastal Quilters (the other group) which is part of the statewide Pine Tree Quilt Guild (Maine is the Pine Tree state). For once, I decided to participate in a round robin sort ...

Now Registered participants ONLY can SEE it … CLEARLY!

If you were enrolled in the Virtual Quilt Festival’s second Machine Quilting Forum on Saturday, you know there were serious transmission issues with my presentation that made the video just yucky. TOTAL BUMMERS, but now TOTAL JOY! Thanks to the hard working folks in the Education Department (who should have been taking today off) you can SEE the video through December 12th. After that, like Cinderella’s pumpkin, it disappears. To access it, follow the following steps:

Registered participants ONLY can follow these instructions – 

—Go to My Schedule (be sure to ...