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Laying out the hexagons
Laying out the hexagons Now that the french knots are temporarily put to rest, I am back to the hexagons. Last night, I pulled out the box of basted hexes and laid them out randomly, testing out color...
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Passing it on
Passing it on I’ve been teaching my dear friend/ex-boyfriend how to cross-stitch and he’s making good progress with Obama. I’ve photographed it with a US quarter coin to show you scale. This is Aida...
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Intermittent Inspiration: French Knots
Intermittent Inspiration: French Knots I finished the french knot section on my band sampler, but have been collecting pictures of french knots for a few weeks. Some people use french knots as outline,...
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Creating on the go
Creating on the go I mentioned the other day that I was doing a lot of my hexagon basting while sitting on the subway. With the creative use of some plastic containers, I can cart along everything I...
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Mini Hexagon FAQ
Mini Hexagon FAQ Nothing on my list of projects seems to interest people more than the miniature hexagons. Lots of questions have resulted from my posts about this strange, antiquated process. Between...
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Intermittent Inspiration: Memory Projects
Intermittent Inspiration: Memory Projects The nature of textile art lends itself well to the process of grief and bereavement. You’ve probably heard of the AIDS quilt, where loved ones create quilt...
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Tutorial: Quilter’s Knot
Tutorial: Quilter’s Knot I’ve been gone for the past week attending my brother’s wedding. (You probably only noticed if you sent me an email and are waiting for a response!) Because I was with my mom...
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Tutorial: Invisible Ladder Stitch for Quilt Binding
Tutorial: Invisible Ladder Stitch for Quilt Binding Update: Apparently this stitch is called the Ladder Stitch. Personally, I prefer my title for it: Invisible Mamma-Jamma Stitch. While ladder stitch...
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Getting back to it
Getting back to it Enough with the bellyaching already. Just because I can’t set up my sewing machine in the kitchen, or an easel for painting or anything else, doesn’t mean that I can’t get back to...
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What to do: Kill your darlings
What to do: Kill your darlings I finally figured out what was wrong with my mini-hexagon project. Don’t worry. It wasn’t anything major — only the whole entire concept from top to bottom. Fortunately I...
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Seams behind the scenes
Seams behind the scenes I had been randomly stitching hexagons with whatever scrap fabric I could find. The result was a large collection of tiny, penny-sized hexes but no intended design. I got to...
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Journal Quilt: Showering with the lights off
Journal Quilt: Showering with the lights off Last week, I wrote about eliminating or reducing input from one of my senses — vision. As part of these experiments, I’ve been taking showers at night with...
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Phat Quarter Swap: Anatomy
Phat Quarter Swap: Anatomy Here’s my contribution to the Phat Quarter recent swap. The theme was anatomy. I wanted mine to look like an x-ray film, a bit blurry and fuzzy. So I used a single strand of...
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Making meaning: Hexagons and siblings
Making meaning: Hexagons and siblings There’s a saying in family therapy that each member of a family lives in a different family than every other member of the family. That is to say that each...
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Tutorial: Cartwheel Quilting Motif
Tutorial: Cartwheel Quilting Motif I got lots of questions about the quilting detail on the 100th Post Giveaway mini quilt. Some thought it was a simple square motif. However, you can see from the...
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Tutorial: Folding Fabric
Tutorial: Folding Fabric Several people have asked about the techniques we used when cleaning out my mom’s fabric stash last week. There are of course many ways to purge, sort, and organize fabric,...
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Band sampler: Chain stitch
Band sampler: Chain stitch I picked up my band sampler again last week, and scanned the list of embroidery stitches I intend to learn and/or practice. Not to be all emo-14-year-old, but the chain...
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Intermittent Inspiration: Quilts with Circles
Intermittent Inspiration: Quilts with Circles The thing that appeals to me about quilts with circles is that the process of quilting lends itself so well to straight lines, angles, squares, triangles...
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Stitching with Mom
Stitching with Mom My parents were visiting for the weekend, which means that I didn’t get any of my chores done (laundry? food? shopping, anyone?) but I did get to spend three days stitching,...
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Band Sampler: French Knot
Band Sampler: French Knot I completed the French Knot portion of my band sampler last week. One of the things I do with my clients a lot is give them a little distance from their artwork. I hold...
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