tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69275326325501040862024-03-17T23:04:10.956-04:00Wednesday QuilterDeborah M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04182216254312297935noreply@blogger.comBlogger344125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927532632550104086.post-58405469590601670262020-02-24T13:21:00.000-05:002020-02-24T13:28:20.561-05:00I haven't been very productive but did get some binding done for Debra and finished a table topper for my daughter. It's machine pieced but I hand quilted it.<br />
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Yesterday I finished a dress my other daughter was working on while she was out with friends.<br />
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One of my goals today - I set a lot of them and hope one or two get accomplished - is to list some of my old patterns on Etsy, and to get a couple of outfits up on Poshmark, something I tried a while back but got discouraged. I hate letting go of my clothes but I'm not wearing them and no, they do not bring me joy. LOL.<br />
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Have any of you watched The Great British Sewing Bee? I stumbled on it on Youtube. Someone named "HappyCat" has uploaded many of the episodes. It's quite interesting, especially the segment where the contestants are given a garment (usually) to reconstruct. In one episode, they had to use all of the waste fabric from their other projects. It is a lot of fun and like me, you'll probably put yourself in their place. I truly felt the panic as they would be within 5 minutes of their time running out, and trying to put in a zipper (or "zip").<br />
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It has the exact same format as the Great British Bake-off. And the prize? A bouquet of flowers and a trophy - no cash. Just the honor of winning. And the contestants are so helpful to each other. I'm thinking of Project Runway where the rule seemed to be sabotage and back stabbing!<br />
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I hope your weather is nicer than it is here -gray, cold, and rainy. I am heading to the library to pick up <u>Olive Again</u> by Elizabeth Strout, which I have been waiting on for months - even though I am just getting into <u>The World We Knew</u>, Alice Hoffman's latest book.<br />
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Still, I woke up this morning, so it's a great day!<br />
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Edited: I was just looking back at some old posts and on December 31, 2009 I pondered, What will blogging look like in 10 years? I don't think anyone anticipated the impact of social media. I commented to my daughter a few weeks ago that it looks like <i>vlogging </i>has outrun <i>bl</i><i>ogging. </i>She and I have even discussed starting a YouTube channel. Stay tuned.....<br />
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What you see below is a laundry basket filled with scraps left over from years of quilting and sewing. I can't bring myself to tossing them.<br />
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If they are big enough, I cut them into usable pieces, anywhere from 1" to 5", and into strips if there's enough fabric. Eventually the really odd or small pieces get stitched into blocks like these below. Sometimes, even if the scrap is big enough, I'll go ahead and use it in one of these crumb blocks. It really is a lot of fun to just let go and stitch without thinking too much. I have quite a few big blocks like this which I think would make a pretty nice quilt. These are things I work on when I can't get into the mood to focus on anything else.<br />
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I could use your suggestions about how to put these sampler blocks together. That green block in the corner seem really out of place (and seems to be trying to escape) but my aunt made these and gave them to me so I want to do something with them. </div>
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And by the way, Debra, I have some binding for you.</div>
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Last, enjoy the first color of early spring. Our weather has been so crazy - freezing and snowing one day; 70 degrees the nest. Poor little jonquils are confused. </div>
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<br />Deborah M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04182216254312297935noreply@blogger.com4Mableton, GA, USA33.8187167 -84.58243290000001533.713171200000005 -84.743794400000013 33.9242622 -84.421071400000017tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927532632550104086.post-58247154014399418872020-02-09T14:13:00.001-05:002020-02-09T14:13:46.492-05:00Where I've Been and Where I'm Going<b>FACEBOOK: The Blog Killer</b><br />
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Social Media can be the bane of one's existence. My advice is don't go there if you're not there already and if you are, run. It is a soul killing, blog killing, grammar disrespecting swamp. While it has its good points - such as finding inspiring DIY YouTube videos and reconnecting with old friends - it tends to be a huge time waster.
So I've turned my back on Facebook, starting today, for the most part; I "unfriended" people I don't really know and "unfollowed" page after page that was clogging up my feed and taking up so much of my time. It's a deep, deep rabbit hole and once you fall down it, climbing out almost requires a twelve step program.<br />
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I retired in December 2018 and I thought I'd have 8-10 hours a day to do nothing but sew and quilt. Wrong! There's been a lot of activity in our lives so the dream of sitting at the sewing machine or doing handwork all day has almost evaporated but not quite.<br />
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This past fall I made several "junk journals" for gifts. The one below was for my daughter. She's a huge Jane Austen fan so that was the theme of her journal.<br />
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Making these journals is somewhat like making a crazy quilt. Lots of creative license and there's no stopping point. I had a great time collecting ephemera to add to them and I love the quirkiness of them. I purchased many of the pages you see from Etsy shops.<br />
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<br />Deborah M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04182216254312297935noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927532632550104086.post-23673326020676657562014-05-26T18:52:00.000-04:002014-05-26T18:52:02.280-04:00<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MKirZo---g" target="_blank">Only one way to drink coffee.</a>Deborah M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04182216254312297935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927532632550104086.post-78370072894308948612014-05-26T18:51:00.001-04:002014-05-26T18:51:34.847-04:00Flower ShowI would love to spend my money and my time gardening. Unfortunately I do not have much of either, certainly not enough to do what I'd like to do.<br />
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A couple of weeks ago my daughter and I took a trip to Asheville to the <a href="https://www.biltmore.com/" target="_blank">Biltmore Estate</a> which has a magnificent greenhouse. Here's just a sampling of the gorgeous flowers & plants.<br />
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<br />Deborah M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04182216254312297935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927532632550104086.post-68163924007088508692014-04-10T03:21:00.001-04:002014-04-10T03:21:14.165-04:00Doris Day is 90 Years YoungI blogged a lot more before Facebook. I really need to get that monkey off my back.<br />
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My idol, <a href="http://www.dorisday.com/#" target="_blank">Doris Day</a>, turned <a href="https://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/inside-doris-day-s-90th-birthday-party-191252753.html?vp=1" target="_blank">90</a> this week.<br />
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I don't think there is a single movie she was in that I didn't love: those great comedies with Rock Hudson (her dear friend) and James Garner, "The Man Who Knew Too Much" with Jimmy Stewart, "Midnight Lace" with Rex Harrison, "Love Me or Leave Me" with James Cagney. She could do anything.<br />
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Then there is her music, that sweet beautiful face, and her love of animals.<br />
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I always wondered why she was not chosen for the lead in the move version of "South Pacific". Not that Mitzi Gaynor wasn't fantastic but the part just screamed DORIS DAY.<br />
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Happy Birthday, Doris Day. You are a priceless treasure, a class act, true caring soul. So glad you shared your gifts with us.Deborah M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04182216254312297935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927532632550104086.post-82375351898999680992014-01-20T18:06:00.003-05:002014-01-20T18:06:31.050-05:00Hexie MadnessHexagons seem to be all the rage these days. My aunts made a number of flower garden quilts, all by hand, no paper piecing. They cut the hexagons out individually using templates and stitched them together. The one that I have is packed away somewhere but below is a picture of a variation of that hexagon, much like the one at the <a href="http://hexagonquilt-along.blogspot.com/2014/01/soupcon-quilt-along-qal_18.html" target="_blank">Soupcon Quilt Along</a> where some really beautiful work is being done. I'm very tempted to get into that.<br />
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Here is the quilt done by my aunts nearly 40 years ago:<br />
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<br />Deborah M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04182216254312297935noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927532632550104086.post-48951266580465161662014-01-14T06:40:00.000-05:002014-01-14T06:40:03.935-05:00Red and White Crazy QuiltGetting started on the new 2014 Crazy Quilt Project:<br />
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These are the raw materials for a major crazy quilt - or two - for 2014. My goal is to keep it simple, with minimal embellishment - but we'll see how long that lasts because I get a little compulsive about that. What I love about CQs is the detail so it's hard for me to stop.</div>
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<br />Deborah M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04182216254312297935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927532632550104086.post-21794119369018875072013-10-15T10:00:00.000-04:002013-10-15T10:00:00.182-04:00Halloween QuiltMy friend, Debra sent me some Halloween embroideries last Tuesday which I used in this quilt:<br />
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I don't think I've ever finished anything so quickly. I worked on it every spare minute, had to go out of town Thursday and half a day Friday. It certainly is not a perfect creation but I love it: the colors, the funky embroideries and the primitive feel of it.</div>
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Today there's a blog hop over there and you'll find dozens of useful website. I just started Weight Watchers a few weeks ago and <a href="http://taylormaderanch.com/blog/recipe-fat-free-ice-cream-using-frozen-bananas/" target="_blank">this recipe for home made ice "cream"</a> got me all excited. I started thinking of substitutes and variations and calculating points in my head immediately. So I'm about to go freeze some bananas so we can have this stuff with our Independence Day dinner tonight!<br />
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The final applique block for my 2013 UFO completion project. I still have a few pieces to add - a final layer of dimensional flowers.</div>
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Mother's Day we went to Chastain Park</div>
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As I said on <a href="http://tast2012.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tuesday Stitchers</a>, the colors are a lot more vibrant in the photo than in reality. Besides, the older blocks have some fairly intense colors like this so this will actually be fine in the overall project.</div>
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Meanwhile, the weekend was a wash, in several contexts. I pulled out a couple of my old quilts that are really worn and started trying to repair them. Here is one:</div>
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a log cabin that's probably 35 years old and much loved. T When my aunts made this quilt, I think they used both 100% cottons and some blends.. There are many pieces like this and some much worse. In fact, I had to remove a couple of blocks that need to be replaced. This was hand quilted, so it was fairly easy to pick out the stitches and remove the badly deteriorated blocks. Here, I appliqued a piece over the one that is worn out. For the larger ones, I'll have to make new blocks and applique onto the quilt. The batting in those areas needs replacing, too. Re-quilting those areas will be challenging! I don't know if this is the "right" way to repair quilts or not. </div>
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Here's the next and final block needed to complete the 20 something year old UFO that's been stashed for so long:</div>
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<br />Deborah M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04182216254312297935noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927532632550104086.post-11470494510955776252013-04-20T17:15:00.000-04:002013-04-20T17:15:06.740-04:00Creating More UFOsThis won't be a UFO for long:<br />
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Working on a deliberately scrappy baby quilt for my niece. I tried very hard not to put two like fabrics together but it was almost impossible. This will get a border and I want to do a scalloped edge. This is a special quilt for a special baby!</div>
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Completed first of four additional applique blocks for the UFO I am finishing up for 2013. </div>
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Also: here are three little quilts for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Iniative. These may be the final three I get done before they shut down this year. Hopefully they will sell either online or at Houston.</div>
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I was trying to think of something else to do to the little patchwork on the left but my daughter said, "leave it, Mom. Sometimes simple is best." So since I was tired to thinking about it, I took her advice.</div>
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I may get one or two more finished but I doubt it.I am putting all my sewing energy into completing as many UFOs as possible, I have a baby quilt to do, some stuff to get done by May for the Bassett Hound Rescue fundraiser (I don't have bassets but my sister in law does), and I need to do A LOT of garment sewing for myself and my sister in law. I have a huge pile of new fabric to work my way through. Not complaining - sewing is my therapy. I just wish I had more time to do more of it.</div>
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This week: Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell Thursday night at the Cobb Energy Center. I've been a devoted Emmylou Harris fan for 40 years or more - I bought her very first album and I have listened to few other artsts in recent years. This is the first time I've seen her in concert so I'm really excited.</div>
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I got involved in <a href="http://quiltinggallery.com/2013/03/20/gorgeous-mug-rugs-and-our-next-swap/" target="_blank">Michele's Mug Rug Swap</a> because I haven't done a swap in a long time, they're kind of fun, and I've had the urge to do a few mug rugs for gifts. But of course I realized yesterday that the deadline was looming and I'd better get busy. Working on these meant I didn't get my applique block finished for the <a href="http://tast2012.blogspot.com/2013/03/deborah-rethinking.html" target="_blank">UFO</a> I'm working. </div>
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DD#1 made this cute back out of a sweater she picked up at Good will. I think it's cute.</div>
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Taking another look at the <a href="http://wednesdayquilter.blogspot.com/2013/03/cq2013-new-directions.html" target="_blank">UFO</a> I've determined to finish this year - the CQ blocks just would not come together for me. I decided to do four more appliques from Mimi Dietrich's book Baltimore Bouquets. I started the first block last night - a simple wreath in colors that coordinate with those I've already done.</div>
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These four appliques will go in the middle of each side with a block in between. Whether that will be plain or pieces or embroidered, I haven't decided yet.</div>
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I haven't had a chance to post about the great time my sister in law and I had at the Sewing Expo when it was in Atlanta a couple of weeks ago. We made quite a haul:</div>
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To be honest, not all of that is from the show. I ordered some from Gorgeous Fabrics, but mostof what you see there was from Vogue Fabrics. They had a good selection this year and it was hard to control myself from going completely crazy. </div>
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This quilt has become a challenge. The colors are different from those I normally use. Here I've put up some different fat quarters in those colors. I think they coordinate well but will they overwhelm the applique if I put them in CQ blocks?</div>
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Beginning CQ 2013 project using some very old UFO appliques. These are based on Mimi Dietrich's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Baltimore-Bouquets-Patterns-Techniques-Dimensional/dp/1564770109/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361234833&sr=8-1&keywords=deitrich+mimi" target="_blank">Baltimore Beauties</a>. These blocks have a lot of dimensional applique. The original intent was to do four blocks for each season. The plan now, based on suggestions from my <a href="http://tast2012.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tuesday Stitchers</a> group, is - as you can see - to use 4 blocks for the center, add a border to make it 27" square. That will allow me to make 12 9" CQ blocks for the sides, top, and bottom and the remaining four appliqued blocks will become the corners.<br />
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The sisters met on Wednesdays at Gladys's house where she had her quilting frames set up on her back porch. I quit working full time after my first daughter was born and Allison and I became regulars. A few years later Elizabeth came along. Two of my cousins had joined the group and it became an old fashioned sewing bee - quilting, sewing, embroidering - and lots of coffee and good things to eat and conversation. The gatherings continued until the sisters had to move from their homes of 50 or more years. They had lived in the neighborhood since the 1930's, and all but one sister built their homes there after they married. </div>
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I have many very happy memories of those days and I'm happy to have this to pass on to my daughters to remember these good strong women.</div>
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Maybe not the most beautiful view of Haifa, Israel but certainly one of the most interesting. We stayed at an interesting hotel in an older, historic area, <a href="http://www.expedia.com/Haifa-Hotels-Art-Gallery-Hotel-Haifa.h2228905.Hotel-Information?gclid=CLLTltSi_bQCFQeDnQodtCoAGw&eapid=13172-1&semcid=13172-1&rm1=a2&kword=Gallery%20Haifa%20Hotel!m.ZzZz.1901929418.0.14862053020.%20gallery%20%20haifa%20%20hotel.105Gallery_105Haifa_105Hotel&">the Gallery Hotel</a>. Behind the hotel there were numerous street markets selling everything imaginable. The intensity of aromas from spices and foods was incredible. </div>
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Arriving fairly late, we took a taxi from Tel Aviv. The hotel is located in an older but historic part of Haifa which is undergoing tremendous renovation. The street in front of the hotel was completely torn up, and honestly, after traveling for hours, it was a bit of a let down. But once in the hotel, my anxiety vanished because not only was it extremely clean but quite interesting. Art is everywhere - scupture, paintings, whimsical pieces like this:</div>
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The staff is very gracious, friendly, and helpful; intrigued by our Southern accents. Rooms in Israel are very small - at least ours were - but comfortable. That night we went to the dining room, very hungry, and were served enough food for a family. After the second course I just had to stop.</div>
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It was very hot when we were first in Haifa. We went up to Mt. Carmel, to the Bahai Gardens, walked all the way down to Ben Gurion Street in the German Quarter. </div>
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