Category Archives: Color

Southern Exposure

We are not ready to travel over the border yet, but this week I’ve been reviewing photos from my travels to our Four Corners area, and South to Mexico, Cuba and Guatemala…enjoying the colors of the ceramics, the handwoven ikat … Continue reading

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Dripping With Color

We love our magazines, don’t we? We quilters are so tactile…when the demise of print magazines was predicted, we just kept on caressing those glossy pages, swishing through the images, and soaking up all that eye candy on the printed … Continue reading

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May the Road Rise to Meet You

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Despite the CDC telling us to stay home and drink alone, I am sure that you have enough GREEN in your stash to start your own Irish Sewing Party today. If not, we have enough Green … Continue reading

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Sewing in the time of COVID-19 – ONE YEAR

Yes, it has been one year since we started marking the weeks passing by, at the start of the pandemic. It is not over yet, but I will not be marking the passage of time anymore. One year is enough! … Continue reading

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The Seeds She Planted

Today March 10th is my mother’s birthday, and eQuilter’s 22nd Anniversary. For me, our company birthday will always be connected to my mother’s birthday. As I go through old family photos, I see so many things that reach across the … Continue reading

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Time To Quilt

Sewing in the time of COVID-19 – Week 48 Now that our industry is starting to emerge from the totally immersive Facemask-Sewing era, we are starting to see some new trends emerging. Finally! I just got off Zoom with the … Continue reading

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What Does the Future Hold for Quilt Events?

Sewing in the time of COVID-19 – Week 46 During the week I spend a lot of time communicating and sharing ideas/updates with friends in the industry. I think we all know that when we get to the other side … Continue reading

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Feeling Blue

I am feeling blue tonight. In case you haven’t heard, due to the pandemic, the International Quilt Association (IQA) is calling it quits. This is the non-profit organization that has put on the quilt contest in Houston every Fall, for … Continue reading

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Escapist Fantasy

Today I dropped off all of our ballots. Here in Colorado we get our ballots in the mail, and there are lots of official ballot dropboxes, so I just drove over to the dropbox. There was a long line of … Continue reading

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Autumn Silver Linings

Sewing in the time of COVID-19 – Week 28 Fall is one of my favorite times of year. Here in Colorado it means the Aspen in the High Country are turning gold, the Elk are bugling and the Black Bears … Continue reading

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