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For my quilt making update, I did baste the three layers of this quilt (my Portal) together. I safety pin the layers, backing is a lovely fall print, batting is warm and natural, the top was made a bit ago. It's the back breaking task I dislike the most in quilting. It's ready to machine quilt now! yea! but....

... my beloved Bernina 1630 sewing machine began failing just as this was ready to go. I have replaced the motherboard in it, twice,  at Hinkletown Sewing in PA. They charge a couple hundred, the other stores charge thousands. I ...

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I was able to finish this month's EPP project in Aqua. I love this color, hard to define and I like all shades of blue green. This is fabric scrap basted to a paper shape, then edges sewn by hand.

I used two dotted fabrics for hexies, this time, scrap wasn't large enough for all hexies this time

(the color of the month at rainbow scrap challenge is aqua)

you can see the blue shade is different from aqua

I started using my Fude nib fountain pen this wee, 

the butterfly ...

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welcome to my creativity round up for the week... 

This is my rainbow scrap challenge purple piece for the week.... all the papers are now basted and ready for me to hand stitch while watching tv tonight. I love having a variety of scraps so that I can see my fabrics! I'm trying to do dots in all the joining hexie shapes in each colorway. 

I used my portable design table (cardboard covered in felt) to arrange these a few days ago. I didn't like one of them so I found another scrap to baste around the paper ...

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Let's start the week with the last row on my stay at home round robin quilt

the prompt was "letters or numbers" so I found a wonderful quote on sunflowers, changed it up a bit, and printed it onto a sheet of prepared for printing sheets

along with an image of one of my paintings (not to waste the sheet of printable fabric on one quote)

I pieced it in with some blue sky fabric, bird and dragonfly fabrics... 

I think it needs a bit of border around the whole thing, like a frame, how about this sparkly blue ...

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I spent the week sewing, writing, painting and drawing... with some creative cooking going on too. (we'll not talk of chores also done)  I cook out of necessity but it does not bring me joy... although now and then I notice something artistic while cooking like this swirl

boiling buttermilk, cocoa and butter to make icing

I wrote a short essay with the prompt "stay curious" yesterday and would love you to read it and add your two cents  (HERE IT IS)

While thinking about the curiosity factor in art making, and how I love each medium I use ...

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