Sewing for a new space

A little before Christmas, I moved offices at work to a newly renovated space. The renovations have been nicely done to make the suite a functional, welcoming space, and to bring sunlight through, even though there are windows on only one wall. My office is currently a rather white block, a blank canvas in desperate [...]

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Kitchen Spoons

I live on the top floor of a big old Victorian-era house. Sadly, it doesn’t have the gingerbread, turrets and wrap around porches  that would immediately bring to mind it’s origins. What it does have, at least, my part of it, is odd little nooks and unexpected layouts, which I find charming. This is one [...]

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Changing seasons

A sign of things to come: That’s my quilt, back on my bed. Earlier this summer, in the middle of a heat wave, I swapped it out for a light coverlet, but a couple of days ago I bought apples at the farm stand, wished I had a jacket when I went to the store, [...]

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Poppies

Poppies Originally uploaded by PioneerValleyGirl A new job and a trip to Vermont got in the way of blogging lately. I promise, lots of quilting pictures from the Vermont Quilt Show, coming soon. For now, though, some pretty flowers (yes, I’m buying you off) I do love poppies. These lovelies are from my CSA. Flowers [...]

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Redecorating…

A week of ridiculously hot weather (way too hot for a quilt) and an urge to re-decorate something (whether or not it needed it) set me to making a light summer coverlet for my room. It’s just a simple nine-patch pattern with a apple green fabric from my stash – it’s not quilted (no batting) [...]

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Hello world!

Two requests in less than a week for my then-non-existant blog was enough to kick “start a quilt-y blog” off the “Maybe-I’ll-do-it-someday” list and onto the “eh, let’s give it a try this weekend” list But where to start? Well, it’s not very creative, but it’s where my quilts start so it seems appropriate somehow…. [...]

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