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There are a number of books that are quite popular at the moment about the minimalism and organizing trend that is sweeping (pun intended) the globe. A friend who moves a lot put me on to one. Now that I am up against moving to another continent and into a smaller space I have been […]

One thing about growing up in a small town where your next door neighbors were your grandparents, you had 5 sets of great aunts and uncles within a few blocks and countless numbers of your mother’s cousins spread throughout the town; you really couldn’t get away with much. By the time I made it home […]

It’s kind of nice to have an excuse to go back home every now and then. This weekend I went back home to get some paperwork for the move. (Over Labor Day we went back to CT to do the same for Paul and had a nice visit.) While I was at my mother’s visiting […]

Some block patterns are interesting in and of themselves, others only take on their true character in interaction with other squares. Irish Chain, the pattern I’m working now, is certainly interesting on it’s own but becomes far more dynamic and complex in a set when you see how it interacts with the squares around it: […]

When I work on the squares for these quilts I follow a very simple process. I cut out squares of interfacing that have an inch overlap (for these 9”x 9” squares I cut out 9 roughly 11” x 11” squares of interfacing). I stack the interfacing out on the table next to the pile of […]