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Sight and Sound have always been linked for me. I’ve noticed that I listen to different types of music depending on the work I’m doing. I tend to listen to more upbeat music when I’m printing, typically latin influenced. It keeps me and the printing loose. I lean more toward classical, even minimalist classical when […]

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: […]

I figured out the shapes and numbers for the pieces for the quilt for Elsie. Cutting out the pieces is always tedious and difficult, but tedious and difficult in a good way. I’ve always enjoyed geometry, it’s part of what I love about traditional block quilts. I get to get out my rulers, protractors and […]

With my great-aunt Elsie it wasn’t Tom Gordon but Dennis Eckersley that she was in love with, but no one ever wrote a book about The Girl Who Loved Dennis Eckersley, even if he did have, as Elsie claimed, the best hair in baseball. I finished up Lib’s quilt. I really enjoyed finishing up the […]

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 […]

The trim pieces are all prepared and I removed all of the old ones from the quilt. I did a test with one of the new and improved catalog pieces and found that they are now strong enough to hold up to having the ribbon woven through them. I had to give some thought as […]

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 […]

I’ve been trying to figure out how to sew the squares together. With the quilts I’ve done to date I’ve sewn the pieces together on a pellon (interfacing) backing and then lined the squares up, overlapped the pellon backing and sewn the squares together. I’ve used heavy black thread with a zigzag overstitching technique and […]

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 […]