Monthly Archives: April 2008

Unexpected Dots

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Lynn Douglas Work

I got a comment on my blog from Lynn and went to take a look at her site. I love the sun piece she has on her blog template. clipped from lynndouglass.wordpress.com Creative Stitches by Lynn  

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Bags Return

Here are some recent fabrics that I bought from Fabric.com. The bottom fabrics are all home dec fabrics. I am going to use them to make another Eco Market Tote. I have a running list in my mind of bags … Continue reading

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Making Bullseyes, Part 2

In the previous post about making bullseyes, I left you ready to sew the circles on. Tips on appliqueing the circles to the background: use a quarter inch foot. start sewing less that a quarter inch from one of the … Continue reading

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Return of Visual Journaling

The view above was what I could see as I ate breakfast. It is the interior of a fabulous breakfast cafe called Boulette’s Larder. Boulette’s Larder is in the Ferry Building and sort of hidden in the back. I went … Continue reading

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Cross Blocks Chugging Along

Here is the latest installation of the Flowering Snowballs project. I think that the green (upper left) is a feedsack fabric. I have only a small piece of it and the weave doesn’t seem to be a modern weave. Not … Continue reading

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Bullseyes

Julie has her Bullseyes up on her blog. I am amazed at how similar they look to mine, but still different. I do like the target motif (left towards the bottom) in Julie’s Seeing Red and will have to try … Continue reading

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Quilter’s Podcast

I knew that Annie did podcasts, but I came across them just now and thought I would make a note of them for the future. clipped from www.simplearts.com clipped from simplearts.com Program 119 – Interview with Master Machine Quilter, Diane … Continue reading

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Circles

I admire circle quilts. This one is nice. I like the way the circles aren’t exactly in the center, though I think I would like a quilt with circles exactly in the center. clipped from serendipitypatchwork.blogspot.com

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Random Flowers

I happened upon these flowers on a blog and found them beautiful. Someday I want to make some kind of flower quilt – applique’, I think – so I keep looking for beautiful shapes in flowers. I found these and … Continue reading

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Examples of Visual Journaling

Since I am on a visual journaling kick, different types of visual journaling are catching my eye. Dawdler is an anti-Twitter and I enjoyed some of the postcards they posted to their site. Not exactly what I think of when … Continue reading

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