Wonderful, joyful red & green cockscomb & currant variation. Part of Starley Collection
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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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Quilt Museums - The past few years Laurie and I have traveled to a variety of places to visit the quilt museums in USA. International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, NE Virgini...
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Mystery Fri-Yay-one week early! - Click HERE to go to the Quiltville Blog and Print the first part of the Old Town Mystery. I was up early and have Printed mine. I have a tote of Teals fr...
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On My Mind, Nancy Crow on Off the Wall Friday - You wouldn't think that living outside of Erie, Pennsylvania would be a center of culture. And it kinda isn't. But it kinda is. Really, we're within ...
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Ode to Color - The Quilters Color GuideMastering the Art of Color Confidencedebuts 25 Feb 25$27.95and features a whole lot of quilters, artists, art quilters and me. C&T ...1 day ago
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2024 Holiday Gift Guide for Quilters & Stitchers - This year, we’ve put together something extra magical for all of our quilty friends (and the people who have them on their gift list)! Whether you’re sho...1 day ago
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How to Quilt Perfect Waves with a Serpentine Stitch - What are your feelings about quilting on your home machine? I have to admit, other than straight-line quilting, I'm still not super confident. In this po...3 days ago
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Photo Emulsion Screen Printing - I flew up to Seattle Washington to visit my family, but first I spent a few days with my friend Liz Kettle. We took a Photo Emulsion Screen Printing cla...
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Computer Aided Drawing: My Pasttime - Rather than wailing I've decided lately to spend pleasant time that some psychologists call "Flow." I've picked a couple of things I enjoy doing---t...
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What I did on my summer vacation... - Early summer was great with lots of family fun and plenty of quilting time in between. Then, just after my last post in August, my Myasthenia Gravis kic...
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A New Quilt Pattern + an Abloom BOM - Happy Saturday friends! This week has been such a busy, fun week for us. Last Saturday, Ryan & I helped my sister, Jess and her family move into a new home...6 days ago
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Retreat and Other Adventures - It felt so good to attend a retreat again, and it felt great to make progress on a few projects. First up, I completed the center blocks for our Mini Clu...1 week ago
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Spooky Cabin – Make a Mini Log Cabin Quilt - Learn to make a mini log cabin quilt! This cute little quilt is small enough to hang on a clipboard or tuck on a stack of books while your fabric choices...1 week ago
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October Island Batik Challenge - This month's challenge with Island Batik's Brand Ambassador Program is a partnership with fellow Utahn Annie Unrein of ByAnnie.com. I picked the Room Wit...
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Sweet Tooth Cutie Quilt -- a love story - I design Cutie Patterns and one of my patterns is Sweet Tooth. I love to piece these, I love to quilt these, and I love to give these away. As with all ...
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TGIFF: Iridescent Star! - Hi, it's time for " Thank Goodness It's Finished" Friday! Thanks for stopping by! Iridescent Star Yay! It's always great to cross off another UFO! Big ...
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Alabama Quilt Block - This patchwork pattern is called Alabama. The block, made by Lena Wallace, is in the friendship quilt Malaga 1937 which I blogged about back in 2016. In...
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It's A Finish--Antebellum! - Antebellum aka My Inking Journey began in 2018 when Barbara Brackman announced her Antebellum Block of the Month here. I chose to reproduce inkings fro...
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Basket of Blooms Punch Needle - Two Colorways, Two Sizes - Just released, my newest punch needle pattern, *Basket of Blooms*, has two colorways included, as well as two sizes for each colorway. When I designed th...
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Stitch Journals: How to Create and Use Coptic Bound Fabric Books, for Slow Stitch Exploration and Expression - *Photo: A stack of hand-painted signatures waiting to be bound into stitch journals.* Back in July of 2022 during a studio clean, I found a couple of sma...
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What's Happening - It was such a fun and busy year! We love helping other people have fun too. One of our favorite things is wrapping and helping give gifts - just let u...
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It's My Day! BH5 block 1 Bright Star - Hello Blockheads! Welcome to Group One for the 5th Moda Blockheads sew along! I'm pretty excited here, for a new sampler quilt project. Or three, as yo...
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Washing a Charm Pack - I'm starting a new quilt and I want to use these darks/mediums from my stash. The problem is that I don't have enough lights left in my stash...so I dec...
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Princess Quilt - My nieces when they were little (they are now in their twenties) named this room in their grandmother's house 'The Princess Room'. A Princess Room needs...
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Unusual Wavy Strippy Quilt - This is a very unusual or strange strippy! It is rather tatty and worn, and was not expensive, but it had nice quilting, and, I was curious to see how it...
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Human Figures on Quilts - * The Adventures of Young Children as Told Via Quilts* *Betty J. Hagerman* One of the best research bo...
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May Mini Quilt with Wendy - Can't believe it's been since January that I've finished a mini quilt! Don't know what I've been doing! Well, I do read more than I have for a long tim...
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Quilting instead of blogging - I will not be writing blog posts any more but to learn more about my schedule, books, patterns and teaching calendar go to my website. https://www.delightf...2 years ago
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April Showers Kind of Day - I've been away a long time and don't have much to show for it. I finally got the rows of this quilt sewn together but have to get it finished. For g...
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The Yellow String Quilt - On the eBay pictures, the quilt didn't look quite as ratty as it really was in person. The box came and I opened it quickly in anticipation of my 'clean ...
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Counted Cross Stitch and a Quilt Finish - Counted cross stitch has made a big come back and I have joined those returning to the craft. What a change since I taught myself how to do it back in ...
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Flora Quilt - I am super excited as my Flora Quilt is the cover girl on the latest Quiltmania magazine. It's such a honour to have it cosen for the front cover. I absolu...
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HAND APPLIQUE ON A V-POINT - My favorite applique method is freezer paper on top. I trace motifs onto freezer paper and cut them out to make templates which are then ironed to the f...
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Emma Andres Fifteenth Quilt Tillman Quilt - Tillman Quilt Emma named this quilt for her sweet friends that visited her in the store. They would bring Emma flowers like those on the quilt. Emma said...
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Scrappy Heart Quiltalong + Block Tutorial - Hi! I'm planning a long term quilt project for 2021, a scrappy heart quilt. I've been wanting to make a heart quilt for a while, and I like the idea of ...3 years ago
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Transforming a 1970s Bedroom into Farmhouse Style! - This summer, my daughter and son-in-law bought a cabin on a beautiful lake. It was quite the fixer-upper and to say I was a bit worried, would be an und...
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The winner is... - The winner of the mini chocolate and caramel quilt is... Quilting Babcia - it was mailed off last week and should be arriving in its new home any day now. ...4 years ago
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New Board Members Needed! - *Parliamentarian* Should attend the monthly board meetings (1st Monday of the month at 1 pm) Should attend the annual meeting held at Quilt Festival Ensure m...4 years ago
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Using Art to Connect and Stay Sane - Here are more of my dress cards. The first one is inspired by the Korean traditional dress- Hanbok. I never thought I would continue to make this but goin...
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Quilted Joy - New Pattern and Class - Sending out the old year and welcoming in the new with JOY!!! Here's a closeup of my new pattern and applique class Quilted Joy. A bit of the antique inspi...
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Our love affair with sewing machines - Hi friends! Today school began in Los Angeles, and last week in the county where I live north of LA. This made me think about the school girl darning and p...
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Life after a Flood: It's Not All bad! - Between 5 and 7 PM on February 27th, a small cold water valve under our master bathroom sink gave way. I was gone but had been in there prior to leaving...
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Basting a Quilt on a Table - If you're a person who bastes your quilts on the floor, as I did for years, you might want to know that you can save your knees and do it on a table. I ...
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Little Quilts - So far this month, I've finished seven small quilt tops for doll quilts, wall hangings, or table toppers. The smallest is 13" x 16". The largest 19" x 28"...
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New Blog - I'm blogging solo at https://fromthebuttonbox.blogspot.com. Stop by and say 'Hi'.6 years ago
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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 ...
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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 i...
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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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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. Qui...7 years 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. ...7 years ago
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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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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...7 years 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...8 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...9 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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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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Dianabol - Dianabol for sale online is known as the former Ciba label for the oral steroid hormone methandrostenolone. It’s actually a type of testosterone, featuring...9 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...10 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...10 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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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 Shelbur...
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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...10 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 ...
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Christmas at home, and a very worthwhile 5 minutes! - I know that "home is where the heart is"... and now a piece of my heart will forever be in Japan... but it DOES feel really good to truly be home-home th...
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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 havin...
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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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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...12 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 ...
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Weekend with Sue Spargo - I attended three days of classes with Sue Spargo last weekend, and it was wonderful to be surrounded by so much creativity! The classes were held at Smith...
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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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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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