Category Archives: Continuing

Creating paths

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If this blue and white path is to remain, it will have to be unified, connected. Right now it just looks broken.

What about another tree?

I may stitch a way station halfway up the slope with a brightly lit path leading to it.

Let’s call this one, Green Silk Moon.

I’ve been fiddling with this quilt longer than I might otherwise because I’m not home. I don’t have other cloth projects to distract myself with. Those of you who know me know that I’m more of a beginner than a finisher.

I had the funny (illuminating?) thought: what if most of my quilts aren’t finished?

I know this has come up on Jude’s blog in the past, this idea of non-completion. She may have said something along the lines of: until they are sold or given away, every quilt in my possession can be considered incomplete.

It might sound burdensome but it’s actually liberating.

Colorado saw a little snow last night and it’s cold again.

TG day 2025

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Once I started seeing this small vertical quilt as a landscape, the chartreuse bar (midsection) needed interrupting. I used floral patterning from a rayon shirt.

The design came together after I went down to the cellar to get something and came up almost two hours later without it.

This is the front of our basement fridge. It was probably something in there that I needed?

This WIP is right next to the fridge. An old strip of houses lies atop a beige brocade with swirly floral shapes and above one of Deb’s amazing splatter cloths.

I’ve been baking up a storm for today but thankfully not hosting. Turkey dinner with all the fixings is one of my least favorite meals to serve company!

I placed a Ukrainian soldier next to a close up of Lady Liberty in one of my collages this week. It’s one of those times that if I could identify the photographer or publication, I would make an attribution. My storage methods (top left), pretty much make that impossible.

It occurs to me that though glued down this one is not done yet.

I hope one and all of you have a happy thanksgiving!

One of my big blessings is that I will be dining with like-minded family. In other words, there will be no bracing myself for the fox sound bites and no prepping snappy, informative but somehow non-offensive rejoinders. Phew!

What are you thankful for today?

Another beautiful day

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Following on another sleepless night. We had thought to go downtown today to support Gaza at a protest at the Israeli consulate, but no … we will write postcards to voters and make some donations to upcoming gubernatorial races instead (VA, NJ) (done, done, and done).

Feel quite literally sick and tired. I’d forgotten that if I chew gummies too many nights in a row, but stomach goes berserk. Oh well.

We walked to the dispensary nearby on Thursday, only to find it shuttered. So there’s that too. I did add magnesium to my pill box yesterday. Fingers crossed.

Pics from yesterday.

Something bled all over the Red Cross quilt. It was folded near the ironing board for weeks and perhaps the spray from my water bottle dampened it and made a red thread run? Or something else, I don’t know.

I unpicked some of the red threads, bought a color catcher for the wash. I’ll let you know how it comes out.

Just listened to an expert talk about system collapse — about how we have maybe four to eight weeks before we reach a saturation point of vulnerabilities. Eegad.

If you’re on insta you can listen here.

I send videos like this to Ken. He reciprocates by sending me fart videos. He knows me well.