tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58055377640814751692024-03-14T00:05:39.699-06:00The Quilting EdgeLife is a Quilt Waiting to HappenMariQuiltshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07024634370648175612noreply@blogger.comBlogger465125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805537764081475169.post-52935061435542502102021-09-24T21:07:00.001-06:002021-09-24T21:07:59.699-06:00MariQuiltshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07024634370648175612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805537764081475169.post-88923569967642143402021-03-16T14:28:00.000-06:002021-03-16T14:28:05.988-06:00Still Quilting Updated from Jan 27, 2019<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Gotta love Blogger....or maybe not. Some of my pictures on old posts have disappeared. Easy fix, I thought. Well, maybe not. For some reason when I edit a previously published post it changes the date and publishes as a new post. Oh well....that's technology for you.</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font face="Georgia" size="4">How is it possible that over a year has passed since I wrote a blog post?? Although I haven’t been blogging I have still been quilting....well, I took a bit of a break on that as well. I blame renovations, moving and ....well, if that isn’t enough to throw one into a frenzy I don’t know what is. 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So I'm thinking of this as a test. Some of my pictures seem to have disappeared and I'm not sure why.....oh the joy's of technology. But here we are and I'm happy to report that I am still enamoured by inset circles. <br /></p>MariQuiltshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07024634370648175612noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805537764081475169.post-72293583907085389272016-12-18T12:41:00.000-07:002016-12-18T12:41:33.077-07:00The Dozen that Didn't<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Since this blog is about my quilting journey</i></span>......I should probably share the bad with the good. There has been a frenzy over on Instagram this week with everyone sharing the joys of having their quilts accepted and the sorrows of having their quilts, for lack of a better word "rejected". In my opinion it's an emotional experience either way, having experienced both sides of the coin.<br />
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The words that moved me most this year came out of the mouth of our three year old, granddaughter, Autumn. After a bit of tiff with her older sister she came down stairs and said "Mommy, my heart is frozen." A little while later she said "My heart is thawed out now."</div>
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I submitted three quilts to Quilt Con this year and not a one made it in. The quilts I submitted are very dear to my heart....in actuality, part of a series of Grief Quilts. Accepted or rejected....does not change the fact that they played and still play an important part In my personal journey of loss.</div>
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MariQuiltshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07024634370648175612noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805537764081475169.post-24167138386882640562015-12-15T17:14:00.001-07:002016-01-09T15:48:35.839-07:00Improv Through the Eyes of a Five Year Old/I'm Not Copying Anything.Since I was babysitting two of my granddaughters today, I thought I would let them each make a little quilt (16" square). Most of my craft things and toys are back at the house being renovated so I thought a little fabric play might be in order.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>It's not that one necessarily starts or sets out to create a "Grief Quilt" but rather that one is grieving during the making of that quilt. It is my experience, that </i><u>the life behind<i> </i>the quilt has a way of showing up, in the quilt.</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>I started my journey, map in hand, with the cocky idealism of youth. With a relatively pain free childhood behind me, I thought I knew where I was going. Nothing really prepared me for the unexpected bumps in the road. The mountain tops and the valleys....the exquisite moments of joy and the dark valleys of pain.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Somewhere along the line I threw my map away and discovered that </i><u>many roads lead home</u><i>. At times there is the death of a dream but often around the corner is the birth of a new one. The longer I journey, I find the less I know....perhaps that's a good thing.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>There is vulnerability in working improv, as it documents one's journey through life. Perhaps this is why I love working this way so much....for me it's cathartic as I loose myself in the process. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Then suddenly, the quilt is finished and I am often somewhat restless and bereft at that moment. Such was the case when I finished the quilt I started in <a href="http://poppyprintcreates.blogspot.ca/">Krista's Hennebury's Class</a> (Improv Under the Influence).</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>The center of the quilt is the orginal set of instructions or map, if you will. Then somewhere along the way, the quilt took several twists and turns of it's own. The colours started to mingle and things started to fracture. I also incorporated several different techniques along the way....changing things at will. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>I will always see this quilt of part my journey of finding my way through.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And through it all we had a wedding......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>And of course, there is nothing like my beautiful grandchildren to give me a reason to Find My Way Home!!</i></span></div>
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After getting home from the coast....a little painting was in order.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>I finally finished </em></span><a href="http://www.thequiltingedge.com/2014/07/putting-pieces-back-together.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>Picking up the Pieces</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em> last week and we went for a photo shoot, along the ocean. Since I'm back to Alberta tomorrow, I wanted to take the opportunity....alas, no ocean in Alberta.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>Last winter, I had the privilege of being one of the testers for <a href="http://daintytime.net/">Sherri Lynn Wood's</a> new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1617691380/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1617691380&linkCode=as2&tag=daintytime-20&linkId=QEAT7IBLNDL3TXQI">The Handbook for Modern Quilters</a>. I enjoyed my experience immensely. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><em>Sherri Lynn's publishers are generously </em><strong><u>giving away</u></strong> <em>one free copy of </em><a href="http://daintytime.net/"><em>Sherri Lynn's</em></a><em> </em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1617691380/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1617691380&linkCode=as2&tag=daintytime-20&linkId=QEAT7IBLNDL3TXQI"><em>fabulous book.</em></a><em> Just leave me a comment about your experience or lack of experience regarding improv type quilting by July 15. I would love to hear your thoughts.</em></span><br />
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MariQuiltshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07024634370648175612noreply@blogger.com138tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805537764081475169.post-54703704501011281732015-05-15T00:02:00.000-06:002015-05-15T00:02:25.996-06:00Well....I sort of fell off the Blog Wagon<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>Coping with loss is never easy, but we usually aren't given a choice. Some of the aspects of my life which I thought were strong, were in actuality quite fragile and oddly enough some the aspects that I thought were fragile were in essence very strong. To find strength in weakness and experience brokenness in what I trusted to be strong has both broken me and strengthened me at the same, odd as that might sound. It's left me spinning in different directions and it shows in my creative life as well.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em> Today, I had a lovely ordinary day. I had the afternoon to myself, which seems rare these days and spent it playing with my fabric. I'm back in Victoria and hoping for several more lovely, ordinary days.</em></span></div>
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I am off to Calgary on Friday to teach two day work shop on my Colour Shot Quilt.</div>
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It's been a time full of sadness, as my very dear sister in law passed away very suddenly and unexpectedly last week. Almost everyday I spent some quiet time reflecting on her life. She was the same age as me....we were sisters in law for over forty years.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>I go from:</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>cutting</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>to piecing</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>to pressing</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>to cutting some more </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>and on back again</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>Because I often Quilt As I Go (QAYG), I sit down at another machine for that. All throughout the process I keep adding more fabrics and putting stuff up on the design wall. And then I start the whole cutting and piecing process etc. all over again. At this point I don't worry to much how it will all come together. I find working this way to be a very interactive process.</em></span> </div>
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