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Paisley Pavane Visits Quilt Odyssey in Pennsylvania

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Paisley Pavane traveled to Pennsylvania for the Quilt Odyssey show a couple of weeks ago. I almost forgot entirely that it was there, partly because of the moving confusion still hanging around on some things, and partly because I didn’t actually pack up the quilt and send it there myself; the nice folks at [...]

The power of hasty decisions

Sunday, January 27, 2008

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Have you ever considered how much power a small, seemingly insignificant decision can have? Even when you’ve thought and planned and imagined what the outcome would be, sometimes the smallest little pebble can make the deepest waves. There are times you can move backward and reassess, and then make changes and move on [...]

The Misery Quilt progresses

Thursday, January 17, 2008

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I’ve been positively voluble lately. Maybe it’s because I finally feel recovered from the holidays or something. Today though, I give you fewer words and the promised pictures of The Misery Quilt in all it’s in progress, pain filled glory: I’ve hit a milestone: all the quilting lines that I marked with blue [...]

Hand signals

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

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As I sit at the machine quilting The Misery Quilt, I remember with great fondness the days years ago before my hands began sending me these hard to ignore signals that say “stop, you’re hurting me!” While I was quilting the endless stippling on Stars in My Hand, I had to cut down my [...]

Yes, I really do quilt

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

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Lest you think that it’s all talk and no quilt around here, I took a couple of pics of The Misery Quilt yesterday so you can see the progress. This is part of the center of the Feathered Lone Star, quilted with a Diane-shiko design which I learned from Diane Gaudynski: The Diane-shiko design [...]

Short update: The Misery Quilt

Saturday, November 17, 2007

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Here’s a pic of some of the quilting in the border of the Misery Quilt: I’m pretty happy with the look, and a couple of really serendipitous things are happening. I’ve quilted all the large motifs around the outside border, and decided to experiment with a bit of echo quilting around this one to see [...]