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This World So Fierce: a novel
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An excerpt from This World So Fierce
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Improv BoM 2024
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Improv Block of the Month — August’s Box in a Box
Improv Block of the Month — July’s +s and Xs
Improv Block of the Month — June’s Greek Keys
Improv BoM ~ May’s HSTs and QSTs
How Many Floating Dots Do I Need?
Improv Block of the Month — April’s Floating Dots
Improv Block of the Month ~~ March’s Skinnies
Improv Block of the Month — February’s Stripbusters
Coping borders to the rescue!
Improv Block of the Month ~~ January’s Scrambles
Improv Block of the Month — Begin Here
From Scraps to Scrambles: Three Ways
Improv BoM — Choosing Fabrics
Improv Block of the Month ~~ Grab a Badge!
Improv BoM – Yardage, Options, and Maybes
Improv BoM – Understanding Mary’s Directions
Improv Block of the Month — The Plan
Workshops and Lectures
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New! Almost in Church Stained Glass Workshop
New! Grow Your Garden Applique Class
New class! Crazy Log Cabins
A la Mary Improv Quilting
40 Years and Counting! Trunk Show/Studio Tour
Hello Improv Workshop
Improv Imagine Workshop
Improv and Curves — A special class created for 2023 GSQA seminar
Crazy Curves! Workshop
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To Retreat We Go! (part 2)
And to Retreat We Go!
T Rex, Brachiosaurus, Triceratops, Pterodactyl, and “Did you know?”
Projects: all the little things
Flowers Are New but Cheating with Greenery
And the Improv BoM is a Wrap!
Cotton Quilters Raise the Bar
And the Days Go On…
Second Improv BoM Quilt Top Complete
And you thought you wanted this class
One BOM Quilt Top Finish!
Improv Block of the Month — August’s Box in a Box
Surprise! Retreat with Me!
Hairbands and Quilt Shows and a Bit of Sewing
Water War for July 4th and Family
Improv Block of the Month — July’s +s and Xs
Halfway There: 3 Reasons to Use Sashing
Stitcheries of Rosary Bags and Old Lace
The Sad News of My Mother-in-law
Improv Block of the Month — June’s Greek Keys
Summer, Slow-stitching, and Smart Grandies
Wildflowers for the Girl Who Was the Wrong One
How to Remember Michael with His Third Shirt Quilt
Improv BoM ~ May’s HSTs and QSTs
GSQA 2024 Quilt Show ~~ the moderns
GSQA 2024 Quilt Show ~~ the winners
How Many Floating Dots Do I Need?
CQG April Show and Share
How to Remember Michael with His Shirts
Slow Stitching Another Of The Little Things
Modern Quilters’ Guild photo story
Show and Share From Cotton Quilters’ Guild
What to do now to beat boredom? Improv BoM
New Classes on marymarcotte.com!
Improv Block of the Month ~~ March’s Skinnies
Little Projects with Big Attitude
Andy Warhol challenge finished
Improv Block of the Month — February’s Stripbusters
Coping borders to the rescue!
And something I don’t love
Are you creating scrambles? Check-in time!
Improv Block of the Month ~~ January’s Scrambles
HNY and all that…
Catching up for Christmas Eve
Improv BoM — Choosing Fabrics
Improv Block of the Month ~~ Grab a Badge!
Andy Warhol under My Needle, Again
Improv BoM – Yardage, Options, and Maybes
Improv BoM – Understanding Mary’s Directions
Thankful for Thanksgiving
Andy Warhol Under My Needle
Improv Block of the Month — The Plan
Improv Block of the Month ~~ Something New!
New happenings with CQG
Flowers for the Family
Five reasons to hate traditional
A Little Bit of Everything
What’s A Little Work? Learning So Much More Technology
How Do Scissors Disappear? Discovery Edition
On to Bigger and Better — Quilting
The Drama of the New Appliances
Are You Up to the Challenge? They Asked
How to Eat Well on Retreat!
Round Robin Updates That Will Impress You
Begining Again and Again
Citrus Sherbert ~~ a finish!
Sweet Friends with Sweet Ideas and Sweet Fabrics
Quilts, Cleaning, and Sunshine — a Good Combination
Cotton Quilters’ Guild Gathers…with me!
“Big Boy Quilt” ~~ a finish!
Improv Process Step-by-Step
Serendipitious Discovery
Quilt on the Longarm (and off again)
Another New Hobby: to support the old one
Flying High with the Little Ones
No school for this girl but reality sets in
A Quick Louisiana Spring
Cotton Quilters’ Guild Meeting in Photos
Improv X-blocks, C-curves, and S-curves
New Friends Learning and Teaching and Quilting
You’ll Never Guess Where I’m Teaching
Improv and Curves — A special class created for 2023 GSQA seminar
5 Ideas to Be a Creative
Where to Begin? Good Question!
Day Star Complete and Jumps on the Longarm
Circle to Circle in Serendipity
A Round Robin and the Paris Cats
5 Great Ways to Miss Out on Quilting
Easy Customer Quilts in Pink
Middle School Mayhem
Hello kiddos! Surprise!
Day Star Quilt Flimsy Complete (part 2)
MQG’s Annual July 4th Retreat to the River
July CQG Meeting and a Great Road Trip
June Cotton Quilters Meeting
Day Star Quilt Flimsy Complete
Is This Jurassic Park? Dinosaurs in Louisiana
A la Mary Improv and More!
How to Make a Fidget Bear
How to Make a Memory Bear
A few nursing home niceties
150 Years of a Tiny Town
Gardening, Photos, And Sewing… But No Blogging
Well, that internet deal was short-lived!
EarthLink Internet to the Rescue!
Pin It Weekly #365 Red and White
Pin It Weekly #364 Butterflies and Flutterflies
GSQA Show and Quilt Winners!
Pin It Weekly #363 Abstract Art
Pin It Weekly #362 Ten Map Quilts
Ten Early Bloomers for a Spectacular Show
Curves and Improv and a Recovery Quilt
Pin It Weekly #361 Ten Quilts
Back to the Land of the Living
Cajun Country Comes to the City
Goodbye February / Hello March
Pin It Weekly #360 Happy Dr. Seuss Day
Around the House in Winter
A Painting in Baton Rouge and One in Texas
Pin It Weekly #359 Quilty Followers
CQG February Meeting
Pin It Weekly #357
Pin It Weekly 357 — meet new followers
More of South Louisiana
Dutch Oven Club– a thing!
Christmas 2021 Fare Thee Well
Pin It Weekly #355 More on Tiered Trays
Five Ways with Tiered Trays
CQG Christmas Party 2021 and My Costly Faux Pas
Take a Walk with Me
Baby, It’s Cold Outside. How Do Animals Do This?
Farm Fresh Christmas Trees… But for How Long?
Christmas Crafting and Now Three
Christmas On The Lowdown–Crafting Ornaments
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: Beautiful Blue Skies
Cotton Quilters Guild September Meeting
Christmas in September? Well, sure!
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: Denim
The End. But I Have Photos!
Deadline? Is that a real thing?
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: Plushies
A Herd of Unicorns… Honestly
Winter Tree Time
Blogging? No… Sewing? Yes!
Is Blogging a Thing Anymore?
Succulent Love in Tropical Louisiana
Back to School Uniform Alterations–How Many Grands Do We Have?
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: Fish, fishy, fishes
Computers, CQG, and Grandchildren Engulf Me
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: Origami
New and Improved … check it out!
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: Old Architecture
Monkeys and Tigers and Bears, Oh My Grandkids!
Pin It Weekly #353 Back at it!
Riverside Retreat House — All the Makes!
Retreat and Accomplish — Make Quilts for Days!
CFAL Exhibit — More of Louisiana’s Many Stories
CFAL Exhibit — Some of Louisiana’s Many Stories
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: Full of Hot Air … Balloons
Cotton Quilters’ Guild June Meeting and Daddy
All New Toys, Just Come By
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: My Grandmother
New Fun in My Booth at Griffin’s
Did WordPress die? Can I Kill WordPress?
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: whimsical flowers
The Sugaridoo Quilt Finished at Long Last!
Pin It Weekly #352 Followers stole my heart
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: Polka Dots for the Win
Jolie Graduates from Bunkie High School
Pin It Weekly #351 Modern Quilts
Cotton Quilters’ Guild May Meeting + Sew Day
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: More Summery Quilts
So Many Apologies, Sort Of…
Pin It Weekly #350 Lots of Recent Pins I Love
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: Cuddle up in Summer Quilts
An owl chick, a chicken chick, a human chick
Pin It Weekly #349 Feathers and Scrolls
An owl chick, a chicken chick, a human chick
Sunday Quilt Inspiration and Thanks, Jenclair!
Class, Flowers, and Friends, Oh My!
Pin It Weekly #348 The Newest Followers
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: All Kinds of Colors
A Brain Freeze and a Migraine
Pin It Weekly #347 Our alligator
Cotton Quilters’ Guild April Meeting: keeping up with Sheila
Pin It Weekly #346 spring-inspired quilts from followers
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: Teal or Turquoise
Photos from St. Francisville
Pin It Weekly #345 ~~ followers with common themes
The New Studio — I’m all moved in!
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: Green and Yellow
Life ~~ back to normal is a relief.
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: Spring pastels
Final Touches on the New Sewing Studio
Sunday Quilt Inspiration: Dream Big Quilt Panels
Pin It Weekly #344 — love for loyal followers
More on the new sewing studio
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