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Personal Blog: Creations, thoughts and quilting insights

Personal Blog: Creations, thoughts and quilting insightsPersonal Blog: Creations, thoughts and quilting insightsPersonal Blog: Creations, thoughts and quilting insights

This personal blog explores my quilting explorations and inspirations with thoughts about life and politics thrown in.

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Personal Blog: Creations, thoughts and quilting insights

Personal Blog: Creations, thoughts and quilting insightsPersonal Blog: Creations, thoughts and quilting insightsPersonal Blog: Creations, thoughts and quilting insights

This personal blog explores my quilting explorations and inspirations with thoughts about life and politics thrown in.

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My Journey

Welcome to Scraps Today!

I wanted a place In the digital world to share my quilting and to provide instruction for other quilters, particularly newer quilters. As a quilter and retired sociologist, I am passionate about exploring the art of quilting and fostering public discourse.  I believe that sharing what we learn is its own source of joy. 

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I believe that democracy relies on free and honest speech about our beliefs and needs.  I do not condone censorship even when the speaker is saying what I consider vile, unhealthy, rude, or inhumane.   My exception rule is "Is this the equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded theater?"  If the answer is yes, then I believe that speech creates more harm than is allowable. 

Not all Quilts are the same: or Finding pictures that interest you

In order  to help with navigation, I have broken the gallery into several pieces.  The Creations gallery is general pictures of quilts I have made divided into hand quilted and machine quilted (I do not hand piece).  Then there is a section of quilted objects.  I am placing my crazy quilt pictures into their own gallery as there are more detail pictures.  And finally, I have placed all the donation blocks into their own page. 

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Creations captured: Hand Quilted Pieces

Cotton cloth and thread. Ink dyed center with batik border.
Spring Dance:  hand-dyed silk organza over silk satin.  Hand quilted with silk threads.
Persian Peacock:  Panel quilt hand stitched.
Christmas birds:  Panel cut into sections then sashed with cream colored Xmas fabric.  Hand quilted

Creations captured: A visual record of the machine quilted pieces

Wall quilt with broad borders in brown batik and geometric center blocks in pale colors
Zen in Blue & Gold
Whole cloth white quilt.
Back side of quilt showing the quilt as you go effect.
Quilt with blocks of dogs, seashells, and pawprints.
Art Quilt made from a  random lines sketch
Abstract quilt in purples and oranges with a touch of green.  A strong white shape and dot add contr
Striped quilt  made of cream colored strips alternating with randomly colored strips.
double 4 patch quilt with cream/blue-purple 4 patches and orange setting patches.
Exploring Fibonacci #3.  This quilt explores Fibonacci sequence with a combination of blocks and qui
Back of a quilt with white borders and a peach colored interior.  This view shows the dense quilting
Children's quilt with crazy pieced center and brown borders.  Piece is heavily quilted.
A fabric artwork with green and black patterns on a beige background, divided into three panels.

Quilted Objects: A visual record

quilted evening bag made from hand-dyed fabrics
Quilted evening bag made from persion print in blue-purple and green.  Has a sculptured edge flap.
Quilted evening bag in a southwest print with striped flap.
Quilted evening bag with floral ornament on curved edge flap.
Bud applique on red and white background
Blue and brown quilt block made into a bag with denim sides and back.
Colorful tote bag with a leopard-print high heel design.

Crazy Quilt Creations: Primarily these are from my first quilt. It is a full size bed quilt. All hand pieced, hand stitched and hand tied.

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Feel free to send me a message or ask me a general question using this form. I love discussing quilting and sharing what I know. I will do my best to get back to you soon!

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Las Cruces, NM, USA

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This journal quilt is based on a watercolor I made.  All cotton materials, machine stitched and appl

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