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How much do you enjoy improv piecing? Here’s a new opportunity to LOVE it. I speak to people and groups all over this region and have found that traditional quilters who don’t like improv quilts just don’t “get it” and either hate them or are afraid of them. So I decided to offer this improv …
A while back my friends with the Cotton Quilter’s Guild went on a road trip to Mangham, La. They apparently spent quite some time at the local quilt shop, called Stitched in Faith. We’ve been before and I would have raced to get on that van but, alas, I was teaching middle schoolers. They’re less …
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Welcome to PIW, the week of red and white quilts! I have over 60 quilts on the “red and white” section of my “heart, quilts” board. This is just a small taste. Apologies, I was not able to find information on these last two, but they are too pretty to not include. Of course, choosing …
It’s spring in Louisiana. We have spotted a couple of hummingbirds and see butterflies on almost every walk we take. Meme calls them “flutterflies” everytime she sees one. The butterflies are mulitplies quickly and haven’t even found the wildflower gardens that Richard and Adam planted earlier when things were just beginning to green up. Right …
Lots of insipiration in this post of abstract art and how it can inform modern quilting.
I’ve been thinking of map quilts for a few weeks now. I don’t know what does that….put my mind on a subject. I do know that when that “on a subject” occurs, I am stuck with it for a while. Links to continue your reading and viewing. These map quilts are all on my “maps” …
I got curious a few days ago about what I’ve been pinning lately. Hmm, can you imagine that it’s been mostly modern quilts? Yep! Here are the last ten that I pinned. Of course, there have been many more. After all, it took a few clicks to build “heart, quilts.”
If you’ve read this blog for any amount of time, you know that I am proud of my Cajun French roots and I love Louisiana and the Louisiana people. Mix all that up and you have a jambalaya of fun. We speak in English. Almost always. But we express ourselves in Cajun French. I have …
I’m not sure when Dr. Seuss Day actually is, but Meme’s school is celebrating tomorrow. Of course, Dusti enlisted me to make a Sneetch costume. I did not even know there’s a book! Happily, Dusti is current on Dr. Seuss and picked up everything we needed. A yellow shirt and yellow pants and yellow shoes. …
Say hello to Rebecca Budde, one of our new quilty followers, who has a board just for string quilts. Yes, some of these will soon be on my “heart, quilts” board! A surprise for me, this board is almost at 14,000 pins. Though I imagine a few are duplicates. Next, these modern quilts are from …
