Sep
10
since last we met . . .
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maybe most of you have completed and moved on (?) while my cqr project continues. i think a story is forming . . .
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Aug
31
loose ends
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all these threads from unravelling cloth, from bits of floss . . .
WHAT IF i smoosh them together
and couch them babies down along a seam line and call it decoration?
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Aug
29
crazy blob continues
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the R in CQR does stand for remedial, right?
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Aug
28
crazy: let’s begin
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okay. not that you won’t pick up on this from the pictures, but i’ll say it right here and now just in case: i know crazy from experience and example. and i know quilting from example, experience, reading, and the occasional workshop. but the extent of my knowledge about crazy quilts is 7 words deep: [...]
Aug
20
dressed-up linings
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sometimes we line the jagged holes with shiny, smooth pearls and tell ourselves the oyster story over and over and over again until we are convinced.
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Aug
19
float
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you can line the holes in your life with beautiful ribbon, she said, and they’ll carry you like a boat in the water.
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Aug
17
holey-moley
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what if this is FUN? using an xacto knife i’d forgotten i had, i made three cutouts then wrapped one of them using 4 strands of floss (2 of each color). used 4 for no particular reason - certainly not for additional coverage because this fabric doesn’t ravel. that was so much fun, i (ambitiously) [...]
Aug
17
leaves of sass: begin
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what if . . . is one of my favorite motivational tools. when i’m having a fog-covered, moving-at-the-speed-of-cold-molasses day, i play “what if” with myself and first thing you know, i’m perking again. it’s a little bait-and-switch trick i learned/taught myself as a child.
and it still works like a charm. (used it quite effectively just [...]