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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: […]

There was only one thing that Elsie loved more than the Red Sox and that was her family. Elsie lived just down the street from the house that I grew up in in Veazie, from the house that she grew up in, with her husband Tex and her daughter Holly. Elsie was the type that […]

I’m finally over the head cold from hell! I finished the whipstitching around the edge of Nan’s quilt this week. Done and Done. This part is always slow going. I fold the interfacing under and whipstitch it down by hand. It is a very slow, meditative process. I rather like it, it allows me the […]

I finished threading the ribbon through the trim on the latest quilt! This seems like quite a victory, and it was certainly a lesson in patience. I found that if I rushed it at all the ribbon would start to fray and the trim would start to tear. I did what I usually do, I made […]

I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays. I had a wonderful Christmas up in Veazie with my mother, sisters and their families. I have been thinking a lot about the patterns for the future quilts and as I talked about these with my mother over the holidays I was struck by the image of the […]

I hope everyone had a wonderful and restful Thanksgiving. I had a lovely trip up north to Veazie to visit my mother and sisters and their families. As I think most families do we have our set traditions and it makes for a very relaxing visit. This week has been a bit of a loss […]

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 […]