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Kitchen Sink-ing

by Stephanie January 29, 2013

Wheee! After going through the “orphans and extras” bin, as told here, I moved a bunch of the larger blocks to the design wall to see how they might anchor a Kitchen Sink top. Played around a bit, then took them all down and put some back up on point, much more interesting: Ribbons pinned [...]

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Veering off the Pretty Road

by Stephanie May 30, 2012

This was a challenging one. The robin who sends to me is my sister, Abby, and it turns out we shared the same opinion of this particular WIP at the stage that Abby received it in April: “Oooh, so pretty!” Jackie’s original block was a stunner, and Miki and Willa had added to it nicely [...]

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Feeling Improvy

by Stephanie April 13, 2012

I’ve fallen behind on posting about some recent finishes, and promise I’ll share those soon, but today I am feeling the improv groove. The pieced units you see here started out as a couple of leftover blocks from last year’s “Blockapalooza”. I layered and sliced and musical-chaired and inserted and framed to get to this [...]

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On the Design Wall – April 1, 2012

by Stephanie April 1, 2012

A new month means another design wall shot. Here’s what up there this morning: One new NYB block: The original pattern for this block had a plain wide outer arc that I felt called for more detail. So I drafted some points and made narrow borders for them. Lots of seams and little pieces, will [...]

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Improvi-Robin March WIP

by Stephanie March 26, 2012

This month’s Improvi-Robin WIP wasn’t so easy to build on from stash. (The WIP as I received it a few weeks ago is here.) I love the Asian-look fabrics and gold details, but the predominantly gray-ish pink and green tones aren’t what I naturally gravitate to. Fortunately, my sister Abby worked on this before it [...]

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