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- My life as an art quilter, quilt appraiser and attorney in the beautiful redrocks of Southeastern Utah.
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My Blog List
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Knitted Scarf and Hat for Homeless Program - Knitted scarf with crocheted edge and a hat This is a photo of a knitted scarf and coordinating hat I made for a homeless child. The set will be distribut...
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Triangles - Last December I saw this Birds In Air Variation quilt at the Schuyler Hamilton House in Morristown, NJ. See my blog post here. I loved everything about i...
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P is for Pennsylvania Patchwork Pillowcase - P is for Pieced Pillowcases from Pennsylvania This case is circa 1876 and has both faux/simulated patchwork and regular pieceing. Center star section is ...
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Just a few little things - I have been absent for over 3 weeks, and I have very little to show for it. Part of that is because I have sewn very little during that time, and part of i...
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WOW - Wednesday August 15, 2018 - WOW-Wednesday is a little late today. I had to make a quick trip to Tri-Cities to get paperwork signed for the Quilt Show entries. Now that all of the Qui...
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2018 Clementine Quilt Auction! - It’s that time of year again! As our 2018 charity quilt along, the Clementine Quilt Along, comes to an end, we are auctioning off the completed quilt mad...1 day ago
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Finishing a Quilt with Riley Blake and the Cricut Maker - [image: Finishing a Quilt with Riley Blake and the Cricut Maker] This post is sponsored by Cricut and contains affiliate links. A few weeks ago I shared ...1 day ago
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Rose Block for Dearest Boy - A quick post for today. I am sharing the Rose block that is next in line for the Dearest Boy" album quilt. There is a story that goes with the rose block...
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Blockheads Round 2 Block 11 - Block #11 for Blockheads Round 2 is here today. The block name is Direction and it’s designed by Sherri McConnell of A Quilting Life. You’ll find the pat...1 day ago
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A $5 Quilt - I recently purchased this quilt for $5. From all the madder paisleys and blue violets I am guessing it's from about 1870-1890. The pattern is one of my f...
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Direction Block 11 by Sherri McConnell for Moda BlockHeads - Hello Wednesday, Moda BlockHeads day! Today's block is by one of our new blockheads, Sherri McConnell of the mom and daughter design team Sherri and Chelsi...
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Quilt Re-Folding - Ha! A mere three years between blog posts! This summer I've been going through my 20+ years' worth of quilts and sewing treasures. Everything from fabrics ...
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Attending Quilt Market: Why I Am - Why I KNOW it’s Important Attending Quilt Market with Generation Q Magazine in May 2014 is by far, one of the highlights of my quilting career. Meeting, an...2 days ago
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Quilts on the Lawn - This wasn't a quilt on the lawn but it sure was a cute little quilt made with antique fabric that Laurie made and hung up for us to enjoy. I went to Sea...
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Quilting with A/C... - Oh my goodness...I do not tolerate hot weather very well. Our lawns our crunchy and dried; in the vegetable gardens, the long storage onions are ready fo...
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Kimono!, The Artistry of Itchiku Kubota - Off the Wall Friday - Symphony of Light, Kubota (5 of a series 80} So I tend to use my time at Quilting by the Lake as an "Art Holiday" visiting any exhibits that are happening...
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Heat Wave! - I know the entire country is experiencing unusual heat so I really can’t shouldn't complain, but… we are just not used to this kind of weather in Maine. I ...
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Emma Andres Fourth Quilt Fan - Emma's 4th Quilt Fan 1932 Emma's 4th quilt was a Pink and Green Fan. She quilted it on her lap using a double thickness of Mountain Mist sheet wadding. S...
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Crickets - I've been silent on this blog and on social media for a few weeks. The first week involved a lot of this: I spent a week on Myrtle Beach with my family ...
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Summer Holiday to Yorkshire Dales 3 - The last day of our short visit to the Yorkshire Dales....I had planned a walk above Reeth. From Reeth, we walked to Grinton church. This was the end of t...
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Big Pink Lies: The Bicentennial Flag Quilt - I had mixed feelings when I received this 1970s flag quilt from eBay sellers, "gb-best" in Pennsylvania. The sellers were not exactly straightforward in ...
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Wedding Present Quilt - I made this quilt in 2013 and finally added it to the My Quilts list. This was a wedding present quilt for my sister. They liked my Ruled by Chocolate q...
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Sweet Dreams! - My Summer Spread is a top - Sweet Dreams 99" x 99" Here are my guys trying to hold it. These are guys who can sail a boat 333 miles in horrible conditions,...
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July Garden - The gardens are flourishing! We have had lots of rain, translate lots of time to sew and everything has grown! Above is a very pretty red salvia. I have n...
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Maine Quilt Show PART 2 - Thanks to Pam Weeks, I now have a fullsize photo of my Favorite piece in the New England Quilt Museum Exhibit at Maine Quilts. See how huge it is?! And...
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The Patchwork Book 1931 - I was searching for publication dates for the patchwork block Cracker a few weeks ago. According to BlockBase it first appeared in 1931 in The Patchwork ...
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Life Begins at the End of Your Comfort Zone - *Reaching for the Boro'd Moon**I like storms. They let me know that even the sky screams sometimes too. * * ...
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A Quilted Love Story, Part I - This love story begins with a quilt. Actually, this story started way back several generations with women in our family who love to make quilts. That "q...
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My Book Antique American Needlework Tools - Project Start: 2014Fed Ex just delivered a very special box! The "Printers Proof" for my Book - along with a celebratory bottle of wine. Quite exciting ...
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Blog Hop Winner! - Thank you to everyone for your great comments! It was a lot of fun to read about how much you all love hand stitching. I hope you will all pick up some thr...
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Baltimore Garden Quilt Layered Flowers - On the original antique *Baltimore Garden Quilt* made in 1848, many of the flowers were created by arranging and sewing tiny fabric petals one at a time, ...
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Brick Series #8 Completed - 15" x 20.5"Here's my latest addition to the series of mini-quilts I've been making from an c. 1915 top I took apart. I call the series Bricks because the...
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New Blog - I'm blogging solo at https://fromthebuttonbox.blogspot.com. Stop by and say 'Hi'.1 month ago
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“Drawn to the Light” - “Drawn to the Light” Copyright Susan Brubaker Knapp 2018 30" x 50"This is my latest work, “Drawn to the Light,” which was recently juried in to the Best of...
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Summer Activities Begin - I always need a project to take to mothers when I spend one day a week with her. This day I basted a quilt together. Our oldest daughter Parla pieced thi...
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MOKA Quilt Study Group June 2018 - We're almost half the way through 2018 now, and I've been working on finishing a book's worth of new designs. So far I've finished four of the quilt design...
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Catching Up - Sometimes I honestly forget that I have a blog, and those sometimes seem to be more often then not of late. Oh Instagram... you have made it so much easi...
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Fundraising Opportunities for the UQG - Link Your Smiths Card Smiths Food & Drug agreed to be one of our sponsors. But you'll have to link your Smiths card to the UQG. This can be done on your co...
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Sunbonnet Sue & Overall Sam, Still Kickin' - "A Meeting of the Sunbonnet Children" by Betty J Hagerman (1979) I never set out to collect Sunbonnet Sue & Overall Sam quilts. *Then how did so many...
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A Maryland Album Quilt - Back in March 2016, I wrote a post about a signature quilt I had acquired and called it “nearly” my holy grail of quilts. It is a special quilt with bea...
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The Comfort Quilt || Quilt-Along – Week 1 - Hi Friends! I'm really excited to be quilting along with all of you! There's over 700 quilters (so far!) signed up to sew The Comfort Quilt! I'd love to ...3 months ago
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Legal Triangle Wonky Quilting Fun - I had fun playing with color and shapes and quilting in making a miniature courthouse steps quilts for the Curated Quilts Mini Quilt Challenge: Triangles....
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Garden Mystery Blog Hop - Wow! It has been a long time since I blogged.. so sorry friends! Not sure if anyone out there is still following my blog??? Rhonda of Farmhouse Threads h...
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National Quilt Museum Benefit Auction - Here is the quilt I just finished for the benefit auction this year. It is 7.25" x 9" . The eight pointed star blocks finish at 2.25" and the binding is...
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Ideas for Decorating with Vintage and Antique Quilts - Ideas for Antique & Vintage Quilt Decorating by Vintageblessings [image: vintageblessings] The Antique Quilt Collection Decorating with Antique and Vinta...
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A Quilt for Kennedy - Kennedy is my newest niece, born on December 31, 2017, just in time for her banker daddy to get a nice tax deduction. Here is the quilt I made for her. Her...
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Happy New Year! 2018, a Quilty Good Year - Another year gone. I used to hear my parents and aunts and uncles at reunions talk about how every year went a little faster than the last one did. As a...
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Long time gone - Lots going on in the studio and beyond. Quilting customer's quilts as well as my own. New opportunities in the longarm world. Road to California in January...
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I’m on instagram now - I haven’t been posting to my blog because I spend my time posting on Facebook and Instagram. Find me on Instagram by searching notesfromthequiltlab. Quil...9 months ago
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Brenda's Bounty update - When I last posted about this quilt most of the blocks were done and I was a little worried about the piecing together stage up ahead. Happy to report all ...
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Posting old favourites... - Not much sewing getting done, but as it's the last day of winter....yay!.... I thought I'd repost some old favourites. Lovely and fresh, ready for spring. ...11 months ago
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Hopscotch - Remember playing hopscotch? MamaNana Patterns newest baby quilt pattern, yes called *Hopscotch*, is quick and easy...so easy there aren't even any seams...
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"Spare Parts" is Quilted! - Actually, it happened months ago, but I didn't have decent photos until now. Meanwhile, it's been to two shows and it's been slept under a few times. You...
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A Fictitious Detective Story: The Completely Made-Up Case of Elma's Quilt Blocks - This is a tale of pure fiction, yet one that presents an opportunity to share some pictures of pretty, historical quilt blocks. We also hope it will pr...
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My Color Kit - Have you ever seen one of these? A friend passed it on to me a few years ago. Basically it's an embroidery kit. It's made of a canvas like fabric. Skeins ...
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We have news! - Hi, Terry Grant here. I am so happy to let you know that we have self-published a book documenting our Colorplay Project! If you've been following along ...
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BERNINA Ambassadors: Telling Our Stories - *Hello there! I'm stopping by today as part of a BERNINA Ambassador blog tour. This week (March 20 - 24, 2017) seventeen of us are sharing our stories and ...
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Moved to Bloglovin - I'm trying Bloglovin out. It seems easy to post from iPad which I use most of the time now. We will see how it goes. You might find me blogging once again. Sue1 year ago
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This Blog Is No Longer Active - Thank you so much for visiting over the years! I still enjoy quilting and making new work, just not blogging ... and I know there are many, many other wond...1 year ago
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Finish-Along, 4th Quarter 2016 - I'm just going to list one project for my Q4 Finish-along goal: my king size Maple Leaf quilt. [image: maple quilt blocks] This is a phone pic from 2 week...1 year ago
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Welcome to Hollyhock Quilts!! - Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoy browsing through this site and seeing what's up at Hollyhock Quilts. Although this website is in blog form...
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Since April.... - You might wonder what the heck I've been doing since April when I last posted. Well, I have been busy with multiple things; work, stitching, relaxing, etc....
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Girl's Weekend to Arizona - [image: desert girls trip] Girl's Weekend Away To Arizona - Fairmont Scottsdale PrincessWhen I was in my sophomore year of high school, my family had to mo...
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Flying By ... with an update and a craft - Oh, I've been AWOL - but you probably noticed. What I didn't realize of course is that it has been over a year. That does not mean I haven't thought about ...2 years ago
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More Joy - Not quite 12 x 12 (more like 18 x 36) but it is my JOY quilt. Part of the :"Dare to Dance" Project and published in the block of the same name. And a patte...
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Well... - it's been another 2 years and I'm back! Leaving for Australia tomorrow and I didn't want the girls to ask if I had blog since the last time I made this sam...2 years ago
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October Meeting - We have basically used this blog to announce upcoming quilt events. We have decided to *try *to post summaries from our monthly meetings. We will try ...
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Modern Makeover Hand Quilting - Hello quilty folks out there in Blogland. My Modern Makeover progress on my Good Earth Quilting Blog is going well and I'm enjoying it, even though my righ...
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Even though we're back in snow country - I prefer to post this photo I took just before leaving Florida. It will be quite awhile before we see flowers blooming in Maine. But it's been a great t...
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A NEW WOOL PASSION - I have been missing in action from this blog but all is well. I just celebrated my 63rd (egad!) birthday without any major trauma. Like Sweetie says, it ...
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Moving my blog to: Wabi Sabi Quilts - Hello fellow quilting bloggers, With the new year just around the corner, I'm simplifying a bit and starting fresh with a few things.... including in term...3 years ago
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Finally!! - It is finished! 2 years and 10 months. Pop over to my blog to see a complete post. This is me, Barb Vedder, signing off of the Jubilee Blog.
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Venting ... It's a New World Dance Craze - Shall we dance? All I see in the world today is a dance. But it is an ugly contortion. No swans, no hoe-downs, no cha chas. It is only a mashup of movement...3 years ago
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Retired - I've taught my last class and given my last lecture! Now to stay home and work on the quilts I want to make and see if I can get bored. I loved teaching p...4 years ago
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Tall Grass/Deep Water: Chris Wolf Edmonds & Pam Sullivan - Chris Wolf Edmonds and Pam Sullivan are showing their work in July and August at the Lawrence Arts Center. The opening reception is July 11th from 5 to ...
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Seeking Fabric - A friend of mine needs help finding some fabric. She would like at least two yards of it. If you have some you would be willing to sell, or know of a sto...
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Ann Robinson Bedcover - This bedcover is one of the earliest quilts in the Shelburne Museum collection, and is on the cover of the book Enduring Grace, Quilts from the Shelburn...
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McKim Studios - Ruby Short McKim Revival: 2016 CELEBRATION - Click on the photo to visit the website! 16 Marks the 100th aniversary of Ruby Short McKim's 1st published Quilt Pattern, Quaddy Quiltie, in 1916. - See mo...4 years ago
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New Year, New quilts - Last year I think I only sewed. I certainly didnt knit, crochet or make anything other than quilts. I had far too many trips away from home but still had a...
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My Lone Star - In October my oldest son requested a quilt for Christmas. I managed to get it done, quilting and all. Below is my working drawing of the quilt. I d...
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Come on Over to My House! - by Laura WasilowskiThe Artfabrik website is up and running again and I'd love to have you come visit. You'll see my blog on the front page and links to th...
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Not quite a quilt.... - I haven't been doing much quilting of late - just the minimum amount to maintain my sanity - or not quite! (should ask my children if they think I'm still ...
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Another T-shirt quilt - Here's another T-shirt quilt that I just finished....I am now making them for hire...thanks Pam for being my 1st customer! I am also thinking about having...
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Where the Market Is - Antiques are like anything else. There are trends and cycles: When Gee's Bend Quilts were hung at the Whitney Museum years ago, African American Improvisa...
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Broken Dishes Doll Quilt - The blocks in this quilt are 4" square and the quilt itself is 16" x 20". It was a fun little quilt to make! Here are close up photos of some of the ...
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An Outlier Uncovered - *Unquilted counterpane dated 1782 with initials E.B.* *Collection of the Winterthur Museum* In 1974 the Orlofsky's book *Quilts in America* gave us all ou...
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wonderful old quilts ~ yuba city, ca - I had a *great time* with the Yuba-Sutter Valley (CA) Quilt Guild I *gave a talk* at their meeting last night and this morning I *appraised* some the memb...
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Taking a blog break........... - Taking a break from quilting and blogging to recover from knee replacement surgery. Ouch. Had no idea it was going to be so painful. O my, am I learning...6 years ago
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We Have Moved - New Blogs and Website - I am delighted to announce the launch of our new website and my new blog. Visit - Sue's blog at www.suespargo.com/weblog2 Kelly's sto...
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Homemade Wallhanger for Quilted Wallhangings with Sleeves - From Sea to Shining Sea Gaye Rice Ingram 1840-1849 Eagle Motifs in America Decade Quilt Series 1770 - 2010 (This beautiful piece is hung on a sample han...
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Getting Together - Normally December would be a time of getting things into place. Getting them together. Tax receipts. Almost finished quilts. Articles that have to g...6 years ago
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Bad Bad Blogger! - I've been a bad, bad blogger. I know I've been MIA for longer than I care to admit. Honestly, I'd hit a wall. I had a to-the-death struggle with the f...
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Early 19th Century Tree of Life Quilt from a Welsh Family - *[image: full view 1810 c] Tree of Life Quilt in the collection of Jen Jones, Wales, UK * The palampore fabric was painted in India and later made...
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WE'VE MOVED! - Thank you for your readership, your support, and your comments on this blog over the last couple years. To give our readers a more pleasant and full exper...
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