tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332321952024-03-06T04:03:43.664-05:00The Quilted LibrarianThe occasional musings of a school librarian and quilter.Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.comBlogger463125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-17158638202948777982022-03-03T08:48:00.003-05:002022-03-03T08:48:45.037-05:00#igquiltfest2022<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMrLKd8UKy6TBoAQ8gE_XZkafKRSlUXYK5aA4VJfCYdd8xfJeh_jXGIzNl3uB6uiD1i0HoT16ly1Es9AzgPtM59BFt805loziCIgroqjLNBNEZwjs_H_1PhFlcjwT-KTbG1Mm5Gw9X1MilrVOST_HwKjGMvsq7jbNcXqtxYytf0jN1_FCwz1o=s2665" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2665" data-original-width="2320" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMrLKd8UKy6TBoAQ8gE_XZkafKRSlUXYK5aA4VJfCYdd8xfJeh_jXGIzNl3uB6uiD1i0HoT16ly1Es9AzgPtM59BFt805loziCIgroqjLNBNEZwjs_H_1PhFlcjwT-KTbG1Mm5Gw9X1MilrVOST_HwKjGMvsq7jbNcXqtxYytf0jN1_FCwz1o=s320" width="279" /></a></div><br />Back in 2009, I participated in the <a href="https://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/search/label/%22Danny%27s%20Left%20Arm%22" target="_blank">first Blogger Quilt Festival</a> sponsored by Amy Ellis. Now that many of us have left our poor blogs to grow dusty and full of cobwebs, Amy has taken the Quilt Festival to Instagram and I'm participating again. If you're on Instagram and want to take a look at all the amazing work, check it out at #igquiltfest2022. I'd love to have a follow, too. @quiltedlibrarian<p></p><p>Here's some recent work. I've spent a great deal of time in the studio during the pandemic. 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Before we finish the directions on making these wonderful <a href="https://www.instructables.com/id/AB-Mask-for-a-Nurse-by-a-Nurse/" target="_blank">A.B masks designed by a nurse</a>, I wanted to show you two of the masks that have reached family members in the West. <br />
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Using one of the two bias strips on which you have press one side under, find the middle, and pin the side you did not press under on top of the dart on the WRONG side of the mask. Continue pinning the tie to the rest of the mask.<br />
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Using a quarter-inch seam, sew the tie to the mask.<br />
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Now, press under the opposite sides of the tie and the very ends which should be the same length on both sides of the mask.<br />
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Just as you did on the sides of the mask, pin the side you just pressed over onto the RIGHT side of the mask.<br />
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Continue pinning the two sides of the tie together until you reach the end of the tie.<br />
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Fold the end in one quarter inch.<br />
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Pin the end of the tie.<br />
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Now pin the other side of the tie the same way.<br />
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<b><u>Important note:</u></b> It should not have to be said, but a nurse put these directions online as a way to allow people to protect themselves and their families. <b><u>Please, don't make these masks to sell. </u></b> I was very disheartened to see masks made using the pattern put up by the Deaconess Hospital in Boston for sale online by enterprising crafters. Please don't dishonor these fine people who have shared their knowledge with us by turning around and trying to make a buck.<br />
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I've been working to make lots of these <a href="https://www.instructables.com/id/AB-Mask-for-a-Nurse-by-a-Nurse/" target="_blank">A.B masks designed by a nurse</a> for family and close friends. This set was for my neighbors who are huge fans of Star Wars and Harry Potter.<br />
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In the second part of the tutorial, I will show the use of continuous bias binding for the edges and the ties. I've shared this magical source before called the Quilters Strip Ticket. (I'm not putting a link in because I don't want to favor one source over another. It seems that just about every website that sells sewing notions carries them.) If you are a quilter and don't own one, it will be the best less-than-five-dollars you've ever spent. One side provides detailed drawings of the construction and the other side is filled with charts telling you what size square you need to cut the width of tape you want. In the case of the masks, a 13 1/2-inch square provides the exact amount of one and a half inch tape you will need for one mask.<br />
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Fold the binding down over the pleats on the RIGHT side of the mask and sew close to the edge. Trim binding even with<br />
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Like many quilters in this time of need, I've given over much of my studio time to making masks. Elastic has become like toilet tissue to find, so while waiting for a spool I ordered to arrive, I decided to try my hand at some of masks with strings. A friend in New Jersey pointed me towards this pattern, <a href="https://www.instructables.com/id/AB-Mask-for-a-Nurse-by-a-Nurse/" target="_blank">A.B. mask for a nurse by a nurse</a>. It makes a really good, well-fitting mask. I've made some changes to the construction, especially in the area of the binding/ties and since I've been asked about it by other sewists, I decided a tutorial was in order.<br />
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Step one is to go to the site above and print out the pattern.<br />
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Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-45258379229942489082018-06-26T19:35:00.001-05:002022-03-03T08:51:54.239-05:00My Shame at the Bottom of the UFO Basket<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Like most quilters, I have a basket of UFOs or Unfinished Objects, that, for one reason or another, were abandoned before they were completed and just got put away for another day. I've been making a concerted effort for the last several months to finish the projects in that basket. I'm now working on the last one. "The Brownies Quilt" was one of those UFOs and I'm really proud that I finally finished it. You can see the <a href="https://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/search/label/Brownies" target="_blank">various posts</a> logging my progress on it. This photo was taken while I was quilting it.<br />
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The top of this quilt was pieced, so I sandwiched it, and quilted and bound it fairly quickly. I call it "Miyoko's Lanterns." When a quilting friend of mine returned to Japan, she sent me several gifts including a Japanese lantern and I sent her back this pattern and a finished block so that she could start a quilt. I used a sashiko quilting pattern called seven treasures of Buddha. I've used it before, on one of our son <a href="https://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/2008/07/this-is-dans-new-t-shirt-quilt.html" target="_blank">Dan's t-shirt quilt</a>s, for instance.</div>
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There were two baby quilt tops, one made from some nursery rhyme embroideries that my mother did and some blocks I made to go around them, and one that was a class exercise in log cabin blocks. These were also quilted and bound. </div>
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But, my shame, at the bottom of the basket, was our daughter Anna's crib quilt. Based on an old Vogue pattern, I'd made one for Dan shortly after he was born, but when Anna came along before Dan was two, I didn't have lots of time for sewing. I did get the clothes made with the name, birth date and weight embroidered on.<br />
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and got the rest cut out. By the time I could get back to it, Anna was climbing out of the crib and we moved her to a junior bed. The pieces went into a canvas bag and finally to the bottom of the UFO basket. Out it came, finally, and I decided to buy new fabric for the background, borders, and backing. I finished the little sunshine pillow sham.<br />
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Next I appliquéd the little bird on the top clothesline,</div>
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added the little cloud,<br />
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made the little kimono,<br />
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The backing fabric is a conversational print of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.</div>
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When I finally finish the last of the UFOs, I will update this post. What a good feeling to complete this work!</div>
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Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-73988304555144588452018-04-27T14:04:00.000-05:002018-04-27T14:17:20.100-05:00Mini post: Brownie update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Just three more grape leaves to go and then grapes...lots, and lots, and lots of grapes.</div>
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I've spent lots of time this year and some of last year, making single color baby quilts in this pattern. It uses two-and-a-half inch squares and can be laid out really quickly. In addition to various babies, I've also made eight quilts for the refugee center in High Point. This is the most recent one.<br />
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The fabric surrounding the patchwork is usually a pale version of the chosen color. This particular fabric depicts fairy tales in silhouette.<br />
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I use a chalk roller to mark the lines and then machine wash and dry the quilt when it's finished. I like to make baby quilts that can actually be used.<br />
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And this is the lovely little miss who received the quilt. She's the first grandchild of some dear friends of ours here.<br />
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As I mentioned in a previous post, I am making a determined effort to finish those UFOs in my basket beginning with the Japanese lantern quilt. Yesterday, I managed to finish another one that is composed of embroidered animals my mother made set with pinwheel blocks that I made.<br />
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There were enough blocks to make two little quilts and now the second one is done. The bias binding for both of them was made from strips of scrap fabrics that are in the quilts. And now it's back to the Brownies quilt!<br />
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Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-67583617199910338452018-04-21T13:06:00.000-05:002018-04-27T14:18:05.836-05:00Update on the Brownies Quilt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Naturally, when I got this quilt out again (see previous post), it was easy to be overwhelmed by the amount of work that still had to be done. I decided to attack it systematically. First, I traced all the Brownie figures that I needed and then began to get them embroidered. I finished the figure for the label because it was the largest and when it was finished, I made the back of the quilt.<br />
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Next, I worked on the grape clusters on the right side. Whilst doing that, it occurred to me that the grapes are probably the easiest kind of handwork, so I should save them until last. I placed all the leaves and stems and then the Brownies.</div>
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The Brownie figures were appliquéd down and then I began on the stems and vines. Once those are finished, I will do the rest of the leaves and then just grapes will remain. The large hand appliqués are just not satisfying me, so I think I will do something else with those four corner triangles. (This will be the third time I've changed that area!!) Stay tuned for the progress and the changes.<br />
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Update to the update!<br />
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After auditioning several ideas, I landed on this one and after LOTS of reverse sewing, there are no longer any hands.<br />
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Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-49711363027579143132018-04-13T15:22:00.000-05:002018-04-27T14:13:26.423-05:00The Brownies quilt...It's back!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am a great one for starting a new project with lots of energy and usually am able to follow it through to the conclusion; however, I have my bin marked "UFOs" like many creative people. Recently, I decided to look at that bin critically and either finish or abandon the projects in it. If you are a reader of this blog since it began, you may remember The<a href="https://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/search/label/Brownies" target="_blank"> Brownies</a> quilt which started as a challenge piece way back in 2009. Due to the amount of handwork involved, I didn't make the deadline and when something else came up, I put it away. Well, it's back.<br />
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The center of the quilt was finished, but the border which includes a grapevine on three sides still has a long way to go. Here's a close-up of the grape clusters.<br />
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Each one of the grapes is a sort of tiny yoyo that's turned under and then appliquéd down. </div>
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The grapevine itself is bias that's also appliquéd down.</div>
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The quilt was inspired by the <a href="http://museumblog.winterthur.org/2011/11/16/the-brownie-empire-of-palmer-cox/" target="_blank">Brownie </a>stories by<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Cox" target="_blank"> Palmer Cox</a>. One of my favorite story books from childhood contained "The Brownies' Circus" and was my introduction to these delightful little folks. Many people have pointed out the similarity to J.K. Rowling's house elves in the Harry Potter books.</div>
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In addition to the large brownie in the center of the quilt, I wanted to include a few more around the grapevine. These three will be added at various locations.</div>
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I also found a book plate of Cox's that I've enlarged to be the basis for the label on the back. Once it's enlarged to the size I want, I put the print on the bed of the lightbox and then put fabric over it and trace the image for embroidery. </div>
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Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-68238893418830392292017-02-21T17:09:00.001-05:002017-02-22T14:13:29.518-05:00The Pussy Hat Project and the Women's March in Washington #Iwasthere<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is my best friend from high school, Judy Ross, who lives outside Washington, DC, in rural Virginia. When the <a href="https://www.womensmarch.com/" target="_blank">Women's March </a>was announced, she offered to put me up and made arrangements for her sisters, her cousin, and her cousin's daughter and me to take a bus into DC on the day of the March. <a href="http://www.politico.com/gallery/2017/01/the-womens-march-on-washington-in-photos-002398?slide=36" target="_blank">January 21, 2017 in Washington was an incredible day </a>and the rest of the weekend was like an extended slumber party full of passionate conversation and food and fun. In the photo above, we are on the bus heading for the March wearing the pussy hats we both knitted for the occasion.<br />
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I knitted several hats using the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwBjtQGbV7gEenhmTi0tZ21ERGh5dWZjb09ERC1sQlItNUMw/view" target="_blank">Super Cat Hat pattern</a> created by Destiny Meyer. It was linked from the <a href="https://www.pussyhatproject.com/" target="_blank">Pussy Hat Project website</a> along with several other patterns. I was very proud of myself for learning the Kitchener stitch using the excellent tutorial Destiny put on YouTube. Since I shopped early for yarn, I was not disappointed by empty shelves.<br />
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Jim snapped this photo of me modeling the first hat I made.<br />
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Hat number two comes off the needles.<br />
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This is our merry band right before we boarded the bus to go back to Virginia (except for young Emily who stayed in DC to visit with some Peace Corps friends). We were tired, but definitely elated to have been part of this remarkable experience.<br />
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When I got home, I used some of the left over yarn to make a pussy hat for my Lisa Simpson doll. It only seemed right.<br />
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<u>Additional note (2/22/2017)</u>:<br />
Judy just emailed to let us know that one of the men on our bus had made <a href="https://vimeo.com/201807042" target="_blank">a film about the March</a>. Our happy group is interviewed at 5:09. </div>
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I am not a big fan of pale, "pretty princess" pink as a color selection for items for babies and little girls. I find it much too limiting. After the new year, we will be welcoming a new grand niece to our family and, naturally, I wanted to make her a quilt. When I found the flannel above, it spoke to me as a inspiration fabric and I began compiling a fabric palette of lavender and dark rose. Since I am using the Bento box pattern, I also included tints and tones of these fabrics.<br />
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I alternated the colors as I constructed the blocks. Above is a detail.<br />
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Borders follow the dark rose and lavender inspiration colors.<br />
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These great pink polka dots seemed like a natural choice for the bias binding.<br />
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The little quilt above was made using some wonderful kimono fabrics that I bought from a vendor at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. I made two quilts with these amazing textiles. The second one is a combination of the kimono fabrics and fabrics from other Japanese fabrics I've collected.<br />
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Up close and personal on the quilting.<br />
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My green fabrics have been doing yeoman service this year with the two big wedding quilts I made, so I decided to make a little baby bento box quilt just in case. <br />
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Here's the back and the binding.<br />
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Jack, the little boy for whom I made the <a href="https://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/2016/02/trucks-and-trains-for-jack-scrap-quilt.html" target="_blank">Film at Five quilt,</a> just had a little sister, so I've been working on a quilt for Fiona. I made Jack a <a href="https://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/2013/05/one-ready-to-be-shipped-and-another-on.html" target="_blank">baby quilt</a> using the Single Girl pattern, so I did the same pattern for Fiona and used one of the fabrics I used in Jack's quilt as well. Fiona and Jack's momma is Anna's best friend, so there are also several fabrics that appear in quilts I've made for Anna.<br />
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The African Striped Baby Quilt continues its appeal for me and I made this one for a friend of Steph's who just had a baby.<br />
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Before our recent trip to Canada to visit Dan and his remarkable wife, Steph, I made a doll for their little niece. She loves the music of Bob Marley and, though, just past two years old, she can find the CD she wants, turn on all the equipment and put on his music videos so she can dance. </div>
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Bob also has pajamas and we spent lots of time taking his clothes off and putting on his pajamas and then reversing the process the night I gave her the doll.</div>
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Bob also has a miniature version of the Kaffe Fassett African Striped Baby Quilt. To carry all of these things, I also made her a bag using a T-shirt.</div>
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She seemed very pleased and she recognized the doll right away. Later that night, the little darling's father sent us a photo from the baby monitor: she had covered herself with Bob's little quilt before going to sleep. If she hadn't already stolen my heart, that would have done it.</div>
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Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-72668764920109543792016-07-16T11:01:00.000-05:002016-08-26T14:40:55.084-05:00The Wedding Quilts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Our nephew and his wife married in a small ceremony last year and our oldest niece is getting married today. I have been very busy for the last six months working on wedding quilts for both of these couples. The quilt in the photo above is for Caylan and Michael who are being married today on Sandy Hook. Michael proposed to Caylan In Ireland when they were on a wonderful trip to Europe, so a variation on the Irish chain pattern seemed appropriate. The label on the back of the quilt was cross-stitched using the gingham fabric's squares instead of canvas.<br />
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I saw the design I used for Duke and Arielle's quilt on Pinterest. It is an unevenly divided square using a sunshine and shadows type setting.<br />
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This is the label on their quilt.<br />
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Both of the quilts were hand quilted. Here are some photos of my work in progress.<br />
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Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-17517317497766813072016-05-25T10:52:00.000-05:002017-04-08T05:57:52.446-05:00Working with a new design of an old block, plus an old favorite<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The pattern that Kaffe Fassett named Jiggery Pokery in his book, <b><u>Quilt Romance</u></b> (Taunton Press, 2009), is a variation of the <a href="http://www.generations-quilt-patterns.com/jacobs-ladder-quilt.html" target="_blank">Jacob's Ladder block</a> generally known as <a href="http://www.nancycabotsewalong.blogspot.com/2013/09/worlds-fair-quilt-block.html" target="_blank">World's Fair</a>. Here's a link to an <a href="http://www.generations-quilt-patterns.com/jacobs-ladder-quilt.html" target="_blank">antique quilt in the pattern</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://marysemakesthings.blogspot.com/2014/04/jiggery-pokery-quiltfinished.html" target="_blank">This blogger</a> made the quilt in the size Kaffe Fassett designed. I decided that the size in the book was a little too big for me, so I reduced it slightly. <br />
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In the beginning, I was making it as a baby quilt, but was not at all happy with the way several of the fabrics worked with the overall pattern because they weren't reading light or dark. Sometimes a void in the light and dark is interesting, but not so with this. Long story short, I decided to pick out the fabrics I didn't like and had to disassemble the quilt by rows to do that. Don't try this at home. Ugh! <br />
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An interesting side note on this: The text in <b><u>Quilt Romance </u></b>says that Jiggery Pokery is based on an antique quilt in Kaffe Fassett's collection. If you look at the photograph, you will notice that there is a mistake in the way one of the blocks in the bottom are set, also as you go through laying out the blocks, there are several mistaken fabric assignments. My guess is that someone other than the original quilter finished this quilt who didn't quite "get" the pattern and then may have run out the of the fabric that was needed to correctly finish the blocks. Not to deny the whimsy of an antique, Fassett goes right along with the mistakes in his design. I'm OC enough that I needed to do it correctly and that's how I drew my pattern design.<br />
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One of the first cars I owned was a red VW Beetle. When I saw this fabric, I had to use it for the back. The bias binding was made using one of the fabrics in the blocks.<br />
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The baby quilt that I ended up making, was another baby bento box--my new favorite baby quilt pattern. <br />
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Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-8595621545222770222016-02-18T07:42:00.001-05:002016-08-26T14:45:15.157-05:00"Trucks and Trains for Jack": a scrap quilt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've just finished a new quilt in the "Film at Five" design. It is for Anna's darling little godson, Jack. Now that he is growing up, I felt that he might like a "big boy" quilt and since he is all boy, he loves trucks, cars, and trains. This is a great little design that is all 2.5 inch squares, so it is easily composed and easily quilted. You can check out the first one I made in <a href="http://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/2014/02/new-scrap-quilt-thanks-to-pinterest.html" target="_blank">this post</a>.<br />
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Here are some closer shots of most of the individual blocks.<br />
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Here is a close-up of the bias binding.<br />
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And finally the back, which is a flannel with all sorts vehicles.<br />
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Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-3898620316637892802016-02-17T12:18:00.001-05:002016-02-17T12:18:28.944-05:00Finding out what gives me joy and living with less stuff<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Much has been written of late concerning a little book written by Marie Kondo called <b>The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese art of Decluttering and Organizing</b> (Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, 2014 ISBN978-1-60774-730-7). As one who is always looking for new ways to reorganize and reduce the clutter in my life, I grabbed it up instantly. The radical nature of Kondo's philosophy is that you have to do the throwing away of unnecessary items in a hurry so that you can know and appreciate the difference less stuff makes in your closet, drawers, and other areas of the home. This helps reduce the rebound effect of the return of clutter.<br />
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When Jim and I moved down to North Carolina in 2007, we got rid of lots of stuff. We also resolved not to put anything in the attic of the house or the attic of the carport. I can honestly say, we haven't missed one thing that we got rid of. We moved into a much smaller house in North Carolina, but we love its cosy character. My thoughts now are to fine-tune. If something is in a box in the closet and I haven't looked at it or thought about it since 2007, I probably don't need it.<br />
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Since I had already done some weeding in my drawers and closet, the clothes and shoes part of the job was quick and easy. Kondo also has a great folding technique for clothes which allows you to see everything that's in your drawer at a glance. I haven't done the little jewelry cabinet yet because much of that falls into the memento area that Kondo suggests saving for last.<br />
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The work in my studio has been slow, but steady. I've discovered that my love of containers has meant that I use up much more room than really necessary for not that much stuff. As Yoko Ono appropriately once said, "We're container minders." Or at any rate, I am.<br />
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I've taken two loads to Goodwill that were mostly clothes and small furnishings. Edward McKay, our wonderful local used book store, was the recipient of five cartons of books. Next on the schedule is paperwork. Industrial shredder, here I come!<br />
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Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-89010716741973881442015-08-12T17:00:00.000-05:002015-08-12T17:00:12.528-05:00My continuing love affair with Pinterest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Just some quick thoughts on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/" target="_blank">Pinterest:</a> as a visual learner and an artist, I find that Pinterest is like a party for the eyes. I have 75 boards and thousands of pins on them. One of my favorite phenomena is when worlds collide. That's what I call it when an image appears that would fit on more than one of my boards. For example a painting by Frida Kahlo of her grandmother knitting: I have a board for Frida Kahlo and a board called Knitting and the Knitted. Where should it go? Oh, I love the fun of the decision. </div>
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<b><i>Apologia</i></b>: Last weekend marked the hellish return of my <a href="http://www.aans.org/Patient%20Information/Conditions%20and%20Treatments/Trigeminal%20Neuralgia.aspx" target="_blank">trigeminal neuralgia </a>symptoms and I've asked my doctor to refer me to the surgeon in Winston-Salem who does laser surgery to bring relief from the pain. This is as bad as it's ever been. Everything seems to trigger the pain--toothpaste, talking, chewing. drinking cold water, walking, touching the right side of my face, etc. Saturday, I mostly sat on the porch and tried not to move, but Sunday, I was tired of giving into the pain and decided to do some work in the studio and reactive this poor, sad blog of mine. The <a href="http://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/search/label/African%20striped%20baby%20quilt" target="_blank">baby quilt</a> above is for the new baby of the couple who owns <a href="http://www.tandoorofgreensboro.com/menu-2/" target="_blank">our favorite Indian restaurant</a>. I finished piecing it on Sunday.<br />
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<a href="http://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/search/label/Rev.%20Danny%20Fisher" target="_blank"> Dan </a>and Steph left on Friday after a wonderful extended visit. <a href="http://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/search/label/Anna%20Fisher" target="_blank"> Anna</a> was able to come for the long July 4th weekend and it was terrific being together with our entire family for my 66th birthday. Anna made me a delicious and beautiful cake and we all enjoyed our meal at <a href="http://www.lucky32.com/" target="_blank">Lucky 32</a>, an excellent Greensboro restaurant with fabulous catfish.<br />
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<a href="http://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/search/label/James%20Fisher" target="_blank">Jim</a> is greatly improved in health. The brace and the walker are gone, but he relies on a cane. He is getting himself around to therapy and school and generally looking and feeling more himself. <br />
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<a href="http://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/search/label/Safety%20Pin%20Studio" target="_blank">Safety Pin Studio</a> has seen the usual number of baby quilts as well as a<a href="http://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/search/label/T-shirt%20quilt" target="_blank"> t-shirt quilt </a>for my cousin, Lynn, and the repair and quilting of an antique quilt top of hers. Anna's new apartment sports new curtains, too. Dan and Steph's quilt was finally finished so that they had it on their bed here during their visit and then took it back to Canada with them.<br />
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My cousin's antique quilt top was in rough shape, but since I had some experience restoring antique textiles, I repaired everything first. The poor baby below had to be completely backed with cotton to save it. I suggested that quilting the top would help to preserve it. Using all 100% cotton (thread, backing fabric, batting), I sandwiched and quilted it very lightly by hand.<br />
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My cousin knew something about the history of the quilt, so I created a <a href="http://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/search/label/quilt%20label" target="_blank">label</a> on the back to preserve that information as well. The block pattern was churn dash, so I made a little block of my own for the label.<br />
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The t-shirts that my cousin had collected over the years were very rich visually and made a very fun quilt. Making t-shirt quilts interesting presents a challenge because it is tempting to cut them uniformly in size which means you end up with lots of empty space and the thing becomes so heavy you can hardly move it. I'm a fan of cutting the designs out closely. I stabilize all the shirt pieces with a woven, iron-on interfacing which makes sewing regular cotton fabric to them easier. The differences in size can be dealt with by adding pieces of patchwork.<br />
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Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-57621800036695321262014-10-02T18:36:00.000-05:002020-05-09T07:57:30.810-05:00The Quilted Librarian in Retirement<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Our lives have been turned upside down since <a href="http://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/2014/01/coming-up-for-air.html" target="_blank">my husband's illness</a> began in May of 2013. Finally, after three different courses of antibiotics, the last one killed the staph infection in his back, but he suffered a compression fracture of the T12 vertebra sometime in November and had to spend eight months in a sort of tortoise shell brace. The fracture healed on its own (which was a blessing because he is not a good candidate for back surgery now) and with physical therapy, he is regaining his mobility slowly but surely. He returned to teaching after several months off, but it was necessary for me to take him and pick him up. It became clear that my retiring would be the best course of action. Since I turned 65 in July and had the required amount of time in, that is what I did. So whilst I am technically retired, I am still a librarian, so the name of the blog will stay the same.<br />
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Also in July, three days before my birthday, my mother, Kathleen Warner passed away at 94. She had been failing for several months. Anna came to stay with Jim in June so I was able to fly down to see her. Several weeks later, it became clear that she was not going to get better, so Jim and I drove down. My brother and his wife flew in and were actually with Mom when she passed. I'm glad that we could all be together and support my dad. He is doing well, but misses her tremendously. They were married for 67 years.<br />
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I have not been idle during this time of being a full-time caregiver, though. I've made a number of baby quilts, a t-shirt quilt for Anna's friend Philana, curtains for Anna's godson's room, and am working on a full size quilt for our son Danny and our daughter by marriage, Steph. I've also read many wonderful books and have added more yoga classes, zumba, and cardio workouts at our local Y.<br />
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This is a quilt for Danny and Steph's new niece, Aria, who was born last spring.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4PwkekdSSo_lwtE2FzN2cyWfK9eXSHO0w2afth7dzoe71lHYm5n8mzCWHxQzEMvMOC-jtzdztCz-O4tFqomZCQKxqzzksjvRkw8j3ycmXUvWKD5Cj-YJuvRq7FCObN1Op4uNiBw/s1600/DSCN2324.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4PwkekdSSo_lwtE2FzN2cyWfK9eXSHO0w2afth7dzoe71lHYm5n8mzCWHxQzEMvMOC-jtzdztCz-O4tFqomZCQKxqzzksjvRkw8j3ycmXUvWKD5Cj-YJuvRq7FCObN1Op4uNiBw/s1600/DSCN2324.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />
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The t-shirt quilt was composed of Philana's high school sports shirts.</div>
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This is the back and the bias binding.</div>
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I'm currently quilting this bento box quilt for a little baby girl.</div>
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These are some of the double wedding ring sections for Danny and Steph's quilt.</div>
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The setting is called Posies because four sections of a similar color are put together to form flowers.</div>
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Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-54849023513190699382014-02-17T10:36:00.000-05:002016-02-17T13:39:50.151-05:00New scrap quilt thanks to Pinterest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've started a new scrap quilt thanks to <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>. It's creator, Deanna of the Wedding Dress Blue blog, named it the <a href="http://weddingdressblue.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/tutorial-film-at-five-quilt/olympus-digital-camera-1598/" target="_blank">"Film at Five" quilt</a> and it is an extremely serviceable design for all sorts of scrap arrangements. I started looking for a likely candidate design when my scrap box had to be declared totally out of control. <br />
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Once I had the design, I dumped the scrap box and began cutting two-and-a-half inch squares.<br />
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Having a two-and-a-half inch ruler is a huge help so you can quickly see if you can use the scrap in question.<br />
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Slipping is always a problem, but a saw a great idea in the new American Patchwork and Quilting magazine about using shelf liner to help hold a larger ruler still. It works like a charm.<br />
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The blocks in this quilt are twenty-five squares, and the illustrated quilts on Deanna's website were mostly charm style (all blocks different). I actually had large quantities of several fabrics, so I did some improvising. The first block I did used an overall floral and difference pink fabrics.<br />
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The next one used two different fabrics only.<br />
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Putting them together using string piecing went very fast. You can see the threads connecting the rows.<br />
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This block used crayon fabric and then solids in the crayon colors.<br />
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Calling the vertical rows one through five, turn row two over onto row one<br />
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and then starting at the top, pick up the five pairs (starting at the top and putting the next pair on the bottom) and take them to the sewing machine. <br />
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Sew the five pairs together without breaking the thread in between pairs.<br />
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Pick up row three as you picked up the first row.<br />
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Starting at the top, open the pairs and sew row three to the pairs, again without breaking the thread between the now-forming rows.<br />
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Once you've picked up all twenty-five squares, press in one direction for the top row and the opposite direction for the next row and so on. Pressing is really important as it makes you work more accurate and looks better.<br />
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Press the finished block from the right side.<br />
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Most of the time, I just cut blocks, but for several of them, I did do <a href="http://quilting.about.com/od/quiltingglossaryf/g/fussy_cut.htm" target="_blank">"fussy cutting."</a><br />
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Here's the finished Clifford block.<br />
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I also "fussy cut" the Cat in the Hat fabric.<br />
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This is the dinosaur fabric.<br />
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As you can see, the blocks are largely children's fabric. This one is the exception, but I think it works with the others.<br />
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I love all the kitten's green eyes staring out from this block.<br />
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For the borders, I decided to use one fabric for the corners. The white fabric is a white on white print of numbers in different fonts.<br />
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The rest of the border blocks use solid fabrics.<br />
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I'm very pleased with the nine-block size (54 square inches) and I've got other ideas for new color combinations. I'm an old-fashioned quilter in many ways and using up my scraps is certainly one of them.</div>
Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-69857263430044709482014-01-13T13:38:00.000-05:002014-01-13T13:38:06.659-05:00My Old Favorite, the African Stripe Baby Quilt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A new baby girl is coming into the world later this spring and I'm creating yet another <a href="http://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/search/label/African%20striped%20baby%20quilt" target="_blank">African Stripe Baby Quilt</a>. I found this wonderful inspiration fabric at my local quilt shop, the <a href="http://www.studiostitchonline.com/" target="_blank">Studio Stitch</a>. It's called "Fairy Magic" and is part of the Riddles and Rhymes collection by <a href="http://tinagivens.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tina Givens</a> for Free Spirit by Westminster Fibers. It will be the wide border around the striped fabrics center. The dark blue thin border is from my stash. The addition of the borders parts from <a href="http://www.kaffefassett.com/Home.html" target="_blank">Kaffe Fassett</a>'s original design, but the striped fabric set in alternate directions is all his genius.<br />
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I'm getting ready to pin baste the layers together. The backing fabric is flannel print of sky with fluffy clouds.<br />
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Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-87290936036919965512014-01-11T15:00:00.001-05:002014-10-02T18:15:46.033-05:00Coming up for air<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Our last eight months have been spent in a continuing journey of illness and pain for my poor husband, Jim. It took several months after he initially was plagued with terrible back pain, to discover that he had a staph infection in his back. Mercifully, it has stayed out of his blood, but that also makes it harder to fight. He's been hospitalized three times with vomiting so severe, he has become dehydrated. (We finally learned that this is his body reacting to the infection.) He spent three more days in the hospital after an open biopsy around T12. He just finished his second six-weeks long course of IV antibiotics. I've learned to start an IV drip bag and use a syringe to administer these drugs and help him get from place to place and help with his personal care. Last week, we learned that the infection's abscess is still there, but hasn't grown. We also learned that he has a compression fracture of the T12 vertebra. Now I strap him into a rigid, clamshell, body brace each morning. The doctor hopes that T11 and T12 will fuse on their own while he is in the brace for two or three months. Pain remains an unwelcome guest in our house. He has lost nearly 80 pounds during this time which is good for his heart and general health, but not an approved method of weight loss.<br />
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Our children, and I include our wonderful daughter in law, have been great. Anna has come and spent many weeks with us when Jim was recovering from an open biopsy surgery and at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Dan and Steph came in July and again at Christmas to provide love and support and lots of laughs. Our hearts overflow with love for these amazing young people who make up our family.<br />
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I've only been at school about four weeks during this school year. Everyone at my school has also been incredibly supportive. Jim's staff and faculty and students have also overwhelmed us with their care and concern and visits. Over the summer, several of his staff and faculty moved his office to a building with a handicap ramp in the entrance. And while I was able to help Jim start the school year and teach classes, he was not able to return after the last hospital stay. This experience would be unbearable without all of them.<br />
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During this time, I've come to appreciate even more the strength of character and compassion of my dad who has cared for my mother for the last three years. When Jim went to the emergency room with the first case of mysterious vomiting, I was in Florida as my parents transitioned from their home to a retirement center. While caregiving is tiring and stressful, it's also terrible to see someone you love in pain or distress and feel inadequate and helpless to make things better for them. <br />
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Please keep Jim in your prayers or practice. We are ecumenical and appreciate all offerings. I am hopeful that this will pass away and he will regain his health and strength. As with all trials, we will be closer and stronger because of it.<br />
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Quilted Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208293296211517857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33232195.post-86552586473684040212013-05-05T20:17:00.000-05:002013-05-05T20:17:31.176-05:00One ready to be shipped and another on the work table<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jim's great secretary Connie has welcomed a grandson recently, so I've gotten a new <a href="http://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/search/label/African%20striped%20baby%20quilt" target="_blank">African striped baby quilt </a>started for him. There is so much cute fabric for boys now. The trucks and tools fabrics are the borders and another flannel truck fabric for the back.<br />
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The blue striped fabric is for the binding.<br />
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Meanwhile, the quilt for Jack, another <a href="http://danawarnerfisher.blogspot.com/search/label/%22Single%20Girl%22%20pattern%20by%20Denyse%20Schmidt" target="_blank">Single Girl pattern</a>, is in the box ready to be shipped to Anna. She's going to take it to Alexis when the baby is born.<br />
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Here's a close-up of the label.<br />
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