Please Don’t Try This at Home, or, How to Care for Your Slider

Sometimes I have a forehead-slap moment. This has been a tough week. I have many simultaneous projects/commitments and I’m trying to finish a piece for the Pacific International Quilt Festival deadline-yeah, that’s 12 days from now. So I’m petal-to-the-metal trying to get this piece done. My plan for this piece is to create acres of…

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Not-so-fast fixes

Although it’s been a very busy week, I just don’t seem to have a lot to show for it. I was hell bent on fixing my Tabula Rosa vest as well as my July “Take 5” Elizabeth Barton Master Class quilt. Both are going to take longer than I thought but as always, I’m sure…

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July Design Master Class-Final

I shouldn’t expect every month’s piece in Elizabeth Barton‘s Design Master Class to be spectacular. I have to remember that the whole point of this class is to learn what I don’t know, to experiment and feel free to play. I really loved the whole process this month of working from a piece of music,…

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June Design Master Class-Final

I focused on value for June’s assignment in Elizabeth Barton’s on-line Design Master Class. Even though my finished quilt does not really show it, I did learn a lot about value. It seemed like all the quilt artists that I follow were posting new work with high value contrast-what a huge difference. I think much…

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Sketches for July-Design Master Class

July’s assignment for Elizabeth Barton‘s on- line Design Master Class was to make and design a quilt based on one of 3 pieces of music. Now THAT was a challenge that has taken me way outside of my comfort zone! The three pieces of music and their links are: the first four bars of the…

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