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Hello all, long time no see. I’ve been busy lately, as I bet many of you have as well, with holiday plans. I’ve also been down in Belize seeing the new house for the first time (yeah!) and up here preparing for the move. In between I’ve started gathering up the material for the quilt […]

So I figured out how to handle the trim around the edges of the quilt for my great grandmother Cassie. I was inspired by the christening gown she made (above) to bring ribbon work into the quilt in some way. I also needed to decide on a book for the quilt. My strongest connection to […]

Really, I know how to count. I make a cheat sheet for each of the quilts at the start to help plan things out and to let me know how many of each shape/print/book page I need to cut out. The math is fairly straightforward: you take the number of a particular shape/print combo that […]

Where to begin to tell you about my great-aunt Gracie. In a way she got slighted in this process precisely because she meant so much to me – I made her quilt first before I officially started the project and the blog. Making the “Joy of Cooking (for Gracie)” was what got the whole project […]

Slow going again this week. 93° and muggy today. I’ve found that I can get some sewing done early in the mornings before it gets too hot. Then later in the day when it gets sticky I sew for short stretches then let everything cool down while I crochet for a bit, then clean off […]

I’m working more on the individual squares for Grace’s quilt and have pieced a few together. They are sewing together rather nicely, all straightforward geometric pieces. Getting the squares to go together is another thing entirely. It’s always more difficult to get the squares to fit together, they end up being slightly different sizes and […]

Got back to working on Grace’s quilt this week. I managed to pick a ridiculously muggy day to dip the cut up book pages. Nothing like standing over an electric wok full of melted encaustic medium for a few hours on a nice humid summer day on the coast of Maine. Something I hadn’t anticipated […]

The good thing about feeling poorly the last week or so is it has given me a chance to reassess the project and do some planning. I had planned from the start to make a total of nine memorial quilts. This is largely because I am making an extra square for each to join together […]

I started going through “A Midwife’s Tale” looking for pages that would be good to use in the quilt for my great-grandmother. As I suspected I got drawn in and started reading the book instead (this is why I ordered the extra copy!). As it turns out it was good timing because I have another […]